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Archeologists find Neolithic-era dwelling in southern Bulgaria

Sun, Jul 19 2009 17:02 CET byClive Leviev-Sawyer 1231 Views
Archeologists find Neolithic-era dwelling in southern Bulgaria

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A team of Greek and Bulgarian archeologists has discovered a large dwelling that they believe dates back to the sixth century BCE, in the mid-Neolithic era, on a site in the Halka Bunar area near Chirpan in southern Bulgaria.
 
Archeologists were excited by the find because apart from remains of floors and walls, there were clay pots which could give insight into daily life of the time, Bulgarian media said.
 
The find was made between the villages of Partisani and Gorno Belevo.
 
The house is near an ancient Thracian mud-house village dating back to the third to fifth centuries BCE, the Classical to Early Hellenistic period.
 
Bulgarian news agency BTA said that 10 Bulgarian and Greek archaeologists had been working since July on the project, which researches contacts between the Thracians and the ancient Greeks.

The project will run for five years. This year's funding amounts to 25000 euro.
 
The partner on the Greek side is the Athens-based Foundation of the Hellenic World.

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