Barrow at Pamukli Bair in Malomirovo, Elhovo Municipality
[ 1 ] Ośrodek Archeologii Gór i Wyżyn w Krakowie, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk | [ P ] pracownik
2024
rozdział w monografii naukowej
angielski
- Early Bronze Age
- barrow
- Yamna culture
- absolute chronology
- Upper Thrace
- Bulgaria
EN In 2021, as part of a project of the National Science Centre (Kraków, Poland), research was carried out on a barrow located on the Pamukli Bair Hill in Malomirovo, Elhovo municipality, SE Bulgaria. The barrow had a diameter of about 40 m, and a height of about 4 m. Seven chronological phases were distinguished. The earliest (1) was connected with the Pre-Yamna stage and dated to the end of the 4th millennium BC. The subsequent phases were associated with the Yamna culture (2–5), the Middle Bronze Age (6), and the Late Antiquity (7). At the beginning of the 21st century, the central part of the barrow was damaged by three treasure hunters’ digs, destroying a grave assigned to Phase 3. As a result of the excavations and the subsequent analyses, a hypothetical reconstruction has become possible, considering all stages of the mound’s use. Radiocarbon dating was performed for all graves, and its results were used to build a chronological model. Thanks to this and other specialised analyses, the barrow in Malomirovo is now a key site for studies on the funerary ritual of barrow communities in the 4th–3rd millennia BC in Upper Thrace.
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