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Excavation

  • Uzun Mera
  • Mustafino, Sveti Nikole
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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)

    • After two previous campaigns, when the focus was on the main terrace of the southern sector, this year the intention was to test the stratigraphy at the opposite, northern end of the site, which is the highest terrace in the large territory of the site. Trenches 5 and 6, numbered in continuation from the previous field campaigns, were positioned at the NE edge of the site, with trench 6 closer to the summit of the northern elevation towards the center. Similar to the situation in the southern sector, as revealed by trenches 1 to 4, the stratigraphy in the northern sector also consist of a dark and clayey plough-zone, and a lighter loess-like silty lower zone. Here also exists a gravel layer, especially pronounced at the highest area of the elevation and gradually thinning out and disappearing at the periphery (it is absent from trench 5, and only few cobbles were present in trench 6). The density and the technological characteristics of the lithic tools in the northern sector seem to be identical to the southern. At both sectors a slightly higher density was noted towards the center (summit) of the relevant elevation. With the intention of resolving the issues regarding the formation of the site and the timing of the manufacturing of the stone tools, samples from the loess-like sediment from trench 6 were taken for OSL dating, and lithic artefacts from different contexts were selected for post-depositional alteration and use-wear analyses. The results of this investigations are expected in the following months.

    Director

    • Darko Stojanovski
    • Trajce Nacev - Goce Delchev University, Shtip

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