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Given that the site is in the area occupied by the Cernevoda culture, I was interested to read the article:
This is the link:
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...underneath-school-yard-in-bulgarias-kamenovo/
Cernevoda is held by most scholars to be an intrusive culture from the steppe.
See: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cernavoda+culture
It's dated from 4,000 BC. This site and it's samples date to 4800-4200 BC, so about 200 years before that time.
"The four graves in the prehistoric necropolis in Kamenovo were found last week; they contain three skeletons of adults, and one child skeleton.
Their bodies were placed in the graves in fetal positions, on their left sides, and were oriented in the eastern and northeastern direction.
On top of one of the adult skeletons in Bulgaria’s Kamenovo, the archaeologists have found flint bowls painted in black, red, and white, and placed with their bottoms up.
In the other two adult graves, the funeral inventories consist of flint tools, while it is in the child grave that the researchers have found three beads of the Spondylus mollusk put on top of the skeleton."
Prior finds in the area have turned up copper tools and jewelry, but this particular grave seems to contain objects made from high quality flint, perhaps connected to a large flint manufacturing center nearby.
The archaeologists seem to see the site as reflecting recent movement from the Aegean and Anatolia. I'm not sure of the basis for that. The use of Spondylus shells dates far back into pre-history. Does anyone know off hand if they were found in LBK graves? Anyway, this is what they have to say about the skeletons:
"According to Boyadzhiev, the people who lived in today’s Northeast Bulgaria some 6,000 years ago did not differ anthropologically from modern-day people.
Their height averaged between 167 and 173 cm (5 feet 5 inches – 5 feet 8 inches). The skeletons found in Bulgaria’s Kamenovo belonged to individuals from a Mediterranean people who came from the region of Anatolia (in today’s Turkey) but mixed with a population that originated north of the Danube River, in today’s Romania."
Does it sound as if they've read Lazaridis et al and Haak et al?
Interesting that they think that they don't differ from modern people given all the population movements into the area in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and early medieval period. I'll be interested to see if that's borne out by further investigation and, hopefully, genetic testing.
This is the link:
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...underneath-school-yard-in-bulgarias-kamenovo/
Cernevoda is held by most scholars to be an intrusive culture from the steppe.
See: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cernavoda+culture
It's dated from 4,000 BC. This site and it's samples date to 4800-4200 BC, so about 200 years before that time.
"The four graves in the prehistoric necropolis in Kamenovo were found last week; they contain three skeletons of adults, and one child skeleton.
Their bodies were placed in the graves in fetal positions, on their left sides, and were oriented in the eastern and northeastern direction.
On top of one of the adult skeletons in Bulgaria’s Kamenovo, the archaeologists have found flint bowls painted in black, red, and white, and placed with their bottoms up.
In the other two adult graves, the funeral inventories consist of flint tools, while it is in the child grave that the researchers have found three beads of the Spondylus mollusk put on top of the skeleton."
Prior finds in the area have turned up copper tools and jewelry, but this particular grave seems to contain objects made from high quality flint, perhaps connected to a large flint manufacturing center nearby.
The archaeologists seem to see the site as reflecting recent movement from the Aegean and Anatolia. I'm not sure of the basis for that. The use of Spondylus shells dates far back into pre-history. Does anyone know off hand if they were found in LBK graves? Anyway, this is what they have to say about the skeletons:
"According to Boyadzhiev, the people who lived in today’s Northeast Bulgaria some 6,000 years ago did not differ anthropologically from modern-day people.
Their height averaged between 167 and 173 cm (5 feet 5 inches – 5 feet 8 inches). The skeletons found in Bulgaria’s Kamenovo belonged to individuals from a Mediterranean people who came from the region of Anatolia (in today’s Turkey) but mixed with a population that originated north of the Danube River, in today’s Romania."
Does it sound as if they've read Lazaridis et al and Haak et al?
Interesting that they think that they don't differ from modern people given all the population movements into the area in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and early medieval period. I'll be interested to see if that's borne out by further investigation and, hopefully, genetic testing.