Volume 2
THE
THE STRUMA/STRYMON
STRUMA/STRYMON
RIVER
RIVER VALLEY
VALLEY IN
IN PREHISTORY
PREHISTORY
Pernik
Kjustendil
Blagoevgrad
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Serres
Drama
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Dikili Tash
Amphipolis
Edited by
Henrieta Todorova, Mark Stefanovich, Georgi Ivanov
Strymon Praehistoricus
KjustendilBlagoevgrad (Bulgaria) and SerresAmphipolis (Greece)
27.0901.10.2004
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THE STRUMA/STRYMON
RIVER VALLEY IN PREHISTORY
Proceedings of the International Symposium
Strymon Praehistoricus
KjustendilBlagoevgrad
(Bulgaria)
SerresAmphipolis
(Greece)
27.0901.10.2004
Edited by
Soa 2007
Table of Contents
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Die Entstehung und Gliederung der neolithischen Kulturen auf dem Zentralbalkan:
Fallbeispiel Glbnik
J. Pavk ........................................................................................................................................................ 165
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The Early Neolithic Site at Piperkov iflik, Near Kjustendil (Season 2004)
V. Vandova ....................................................................................................................................................191
Recent Researches at the Neolithic Settlement of Dikili Tash, Eastern Macedonia, Greece:
an Overview
P. Darcque, H. Koukouli-Chryssanthaki, D. Malamidou, R. Treuil, Z. Tsirtsoni ......................................247
Linguistische Angaben ber die Namen der Flsse Axios, Strymon, Nestos
I. Duridanov ............................................................................................................................................. 273
Prehistorical Sites in the Middle Struma River Valley Between the End of the VIIth mill.
BC and the Beginning of the Ist mill. BC
M. Grbska-Kulowa, I. Kulow ..................................................................................................................... 279
Kryoneri: a Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement in the Lower Strymon Valley
D. Malamidou .............................................................................................................................................. 297
Absolute Chronology of the Neolithic and Eneolithic Cultures in the Valley of Struma
J. Bojadiev................................................................................................................................................... 309
A Late Bronze Age Cemetery in Faia Petra, East of the Middle Strymon Valley
M. Valla ........................................................................................................................................................ 359
The Late Bronze Age Necropolis in the own of Sandanski, Southwest Bulgaria
S. Alexandrov, V. Petkov, G. Ivanov .............................................................................................................373
Krsto Pokrovnik Excavations at a Late Bronze Age Site in the Middle Struma
River Valley, Southwest Bulgaria. Preliminary results 2004 season
M. Stefanovich, I. Kulov .............................................................................................................................. 389
Tradition and Innovation in the Bronze Age Pottery of the Thessaloniki Toumba.
Food and drink consumption and tableware ceramics
S. Andreou, K. Psaraki ................................................................................................................................ 397
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Fig. 2. Ceramic from Devetashuata peshtera (1, 3), Peklyuk (4) and Zaminetz (2, 58).
explored in the Devetashka cave house no. 2
from Mikovs excavations (MIKOV 1960, 7987),
Peklyuk the potters furnace (PETKOV 1964),
and Zaminetz the published three levels of ocThe Struma/Strymon River Valley in Prehistory
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14
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16
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Fig. 3. Ceramic from Peklyuk (1), Devetashuata peshtera (2), Zaminetz C(36), Krivodol (711),
Galatin (1213), Slcua I, Slcua II a (1416), Slcua II b (17), Slcua II c (18) and Slcua III (19).
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3
2
4
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10
Fig. 4 Ceramic from Peklyuk (1 4), Devetashuata peshtera (5), Zaminetz C (610).
(GEORGIEVA 1994), etc. With regard to the ceramics from the settlement near Krivodol, the
only note in the text regarding the differences
between the ceramic complexes from the five
levels is, ...Graphite-painted geometric patterns
dominate in the earlier stages from the existence of the
settlement. In the higher levels, graphite as a means
of decoration is replaced by multicoloured ochre
paint: white, yellow, red, light brown... (NIKOLOV
1984, 10). With regards to relative chronology
(Fig. 1) the late stages of the culture falls after
the stage represented in Zaminetz and before
Slcua IV or the so-called scheibenhenkel
level. The ceramics of this stage is rather different from that of the preceding stages. GraphThe Struma/Strymon River Valley in Prehistory
ite-painted ceramics continues to be found together with ceramics painted with red, white,
etc. paint, but the overall quantity of painted ceramics is smaller. The same types of vessels continue to occur, but some of their details change.
Vessels in which the middle part of the vertical
profile is thickened and sharply shaped downward (Fig. 2: 16) or thickened and shaped as a
cylindrical belt (Fig. 2: 78) do not occur during
this period. I shall demostrate here the differences between the vessels from the period under consideration and the preceding ones only
in vessels with two large vertical handles cups
and deep vessels (bowls or amphora-like ones).
All of them, with the exception of the vessels
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3
9
7
10
11
12
Fig. 5. Ceramic from Krivodol (18), Slcua I (9), Slcua II b (10), Slcua III (11) and Slcua IV (12).
from Krivodol, come from complexes with certain stratigraphies. With regards to the cups, it
can be seen that those from Galatin and Slcua
(Fig. 3:1219) are definitely different from the
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rest (Fig. 3:111) the body is broad and shallow, the handles are large and spread outthe
most convex part of the handle is in the middle
of the arc of its profile, while for the earlier ones
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Fig. 6. Ceramic from Kozareva mogila.
from Peklyuk and Zaminetz this is the lowest
part. With regard to deep vessels (Fig. 45), the
handles of the earlier ones are attached to the
rim or a little under it and to the most bulging
part of the body (Fig. 4), while for the later ones
they are attached to the rim and at or a little
above the most bulging part of the body (Fig.
5). For cups, as well as for the two deep vessels
from Slcua IIC and Slcua III the abovementioned differences the earlier stages are more
emphasised than, for example, for the numerous vessels of these types from Krivodol (Fig.
3:7). This means that the material from the
various strata at Krivodol represent different
stages of the evolution of the Krivodol-Slcua
culture and are only partially cotemporaneous
with Slcua IIII.
Two subperiods can be distinguisghed within
the period under consideration, which I tentatively call the later stages of the Krivodol-Slcua
culture, or the period of ceramics painted with
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(COCHADZIEV 1984), Peklyuk (the potters furnace) and Devetashka peshtera (house No. 2),
while others appear more distant: Devetashka
peshtera and Zaminetz as well as Zaminetz and
Galatin I (the house). This, as well as the large
typological differences between the ceramic
complexes of Krivodol-Slcua and Kodjadermen-Gumelnia-Karanovo VI, makes synchronization of their individual stages difficult. The
materials from the Late Eneolithic settlements
explored in recent years on the territiry of the
cultures
Kodjadermen-Gumelnia-Karanovo
VI and Varna: Sozopol, Kozareva mogila and
Rupkite, allow more precise synchronizations,
as well as an opportunity to correct the notion
that the Krivodol-Slcua culture continued to
evolve longer than Kodjadermen-GumelniaIn the Steps of James Harvey Gaul, volume 2
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to approach a clarification of the problems related to the disappearance of the brilliant Late
Eneolithic cultures in this part of the Balkan
Penunsula and the process of the formation
of the Cernavoda I and Galatin (Slcua IV,
Herkulane IIIII) cultures. It appears improbable that findings such as those from Kozareva
mogila, Rupkite, and Sozopol are an isolated
phenomenon; it is more likely that they had remained unnoticed in the course of long years,
similarly to those from the Rebrkovo-Slcua
III stage and those chronologically following it
in western Bulgaria.
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