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Excavation

  • Kozarnika Cave
  • Belogradchik
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  • Bulgaria
  • Vidin
  • Belogradchik

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • KOZARNIKA CAVE (Nikolai Sirakov – nikolaysirakov@gmail.com, Jean-Luc Guadelli) The excavations in Sectors DE7–DE10 in the entrance hall of the cave continued. Occupation layers ІVа, ІVb and the upper part of V were explored, situated in Strata 4 and 5a of the Upper Paleolithic period dated to the middle phases of the Kozarnika Culture (26 – 25 ka BP). An earlier stage of the jewelry production of beads for necklaces, brooches and appliqués for clothes, discovered in 2013, was documented. Similarly to the later phases of the Kozarnika Culture (25 – 19 ka BP), mostly euryhaline fossils were used for the jewelry production, but also Pleistocene freshwater snails and shells. The flint assemblages of the middle phases of the Kozarnika Culture displayed an increased production and a larger variety of the small plates and the techniques of debitage. The small plates were used for the production of arrowheads and elements of complex tools and weapons. A fragment from a Paleolithic “Venus” was found, produced from a bone, most probably for a bison, and dated to 26 – 25 ka BP. A Neanderthal radius was reconstructed from fragments, belonging to a child less than one year old and originating from the upper part of layer 10b of the Middle Paleolithic period, dated to 140 – 130 ka BP. Almost 20 more human bones and teeth were discovered, most of them undoubtedly belonging to Homo sapiens.

  • Nikolai Sirakov - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Jean-Luc Guadelli - PACEA/IPGQ–UMR CNRS 5199, Université Bordeaux I 

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Research Body

  • Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Université Bordeaux I

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