EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BOROVAN (Georgi Ganetsovski – ganecovski_ar@abv.bg) The Early Chalcolithic settlement covered an area of c. 1.2 ha. It was fortified with a ditch and a palisade from its three accessible sides. A stratum, synchronous to the upper Early Chalcolithic stratum in Sector Center, and a stratum from the Proto-Bronze Age, situated above it, were documented in Sondage 1 in Sector South. Part of an Early Chalcolithic house, 60 – 70 sq. m in size, was explored. Floor plaster and a clay wall with an entrance were discovered. The house was destroyed by a fire. Early Chalcolithic pottery of the Gradeshnitsa Culture, flint flakes from sickles, a small terracotta cult table, a small terracotta chair, anthropomorphic figurines, bone awls and knucklebones were found in the debris of the house. Two strata from the Early Chalcolithic period (first half of the 5th millennium BC) and a stratum from the Proto-Bronze Age (first half of the 4th millennium BC) were documented in Sondage 2 in Sector Center. A ritual pit, containing ash, fragmentary ceramic vessels, animal bones, flint blades and tools, was discovered in the lower Early Chalcolithic stratum. A domestic oven and a floor plaster, covered with debris from the walls and roof, were explored in the upper Early Chalcolithic stratum. Fragmentary ceramic vessels, flint scrapers, small terracotta chairs, loom weights, a bone awl and a spatula were found. The building was destroyed by a fire. A pot containing bones, mainly parts from the skull of herbivore, was found in the house. Pottery of the Galatin Culture, animal bones, burned clay plasters from walls, flint arrowheads, a copper wedge, an anthropomorphic terracotta figurine, terracotta weights and flint artifacts were found in the stratum from the Proto-Bronze Age. A clay structure, probably from the palisade, and the fortification ditch, 7 m wide and over 3 m deep, were documented in Sector East. The ditch contained Early Chalcolithic sherds, animal bones, charcoal and fragmentary clay plasters.