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Excavation

  • Uzun Mera
  • Mustafino, Sveti Nikole
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  • North Macedonia
  • 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)

  • The fourth campaign at the Uzun Mera Palaeolithic site was financially and logistically affected by the pandemic conditions. The investigations were limited to one trench (trench 7) in the eastern periphery of the southern sector. The goal of trench 7 was to confirm if the pattern observed during the previous year in the northern sector regarding the relation between center and the periphery of the sectors in terms of artefact density and stratigraphy, is also valid here. So far the excavations in this sector were carried out in the central zone where the layer of cobbles was more prominent. Trench 7 has confirmed the thinning and eventual disappearing of the gravel layer from the central (high) towards the peripheral (lower) areas of the sectors. Here, only the dark clayey plough zone, and the underlying loess-like silty layer were found. As expected, the density of artefacts, both on the surface and in the layers, was lower. while still awaiting the laboratory results for absolute dating, artefact taphonomy and use wear, also delayed from the global health crisis, trench 7 has completed the picture of the southern sector of the site.

Director

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

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