Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a new ancient settlement. Photo by BGNES
Posted on 07/03/2009 5:16:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a 7 000-years-old settlement close to the northeast city of Shumen.
The village dates back to the Stone-Copper Age, and is located in the locality of Chanadzhik, near the village of Sushina and the Ticha Dam.
The archaeologists have discovered over 300 finds, most of which are made of marble.
"These items are extremely rare. They were worn by very specific people. These are decorations that were not available to the masses. There are also others that are made of clay or bone," explained Stefan Chohadzhiev, an archaeology professor at the Veliko Tarnovo University, as quoted by bTV.
The most valuable find of the archaeologists, however, is a fortification that protected the village mound from the west.
According to Ivan Babadzhanov, an archaeologist from the Regional History Museum in Shumen, the fortification probably consisted of a stone wall; the items discovered there are Chalcolithic (Copper Age) ceramics.
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Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a new ancient settlement. Photo by BGNES
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The most valuable find of the archaeologists, however, is a fortification that protected the village mound from the west.WHAT? A 'Fort'?
"I think I used an outhouse there once....
or it could only be used as an outhouse after I left...
I forget which."
Impossible. Don’t you know the earth is only a little more than 6000 years old?
Pretty close to the Black Sea. Perhaps related to the conjectural civilization now under the water of that sea.
Given the date, it’s possible, but it could also be contemporaneous. If the settlement dates from 7K ago, it would be 500 years after the so-called “Noah’s Flood” event that produced the Black Sea as we know it. As Ryan and Pitman note in the book of that name, Catal Huyuk in Anatolia was depopulated pretty much immediately after the event, and Jericho’s fortifications (as well as the fortifications of other ME sites) suddenly got much more formidable at that time.
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The relics from before the Great Flood were likely washed away, which would be hard to find. Around the Great Flood, other parts of the world recorded it as well.
There is strong archaeilogical evidence that Kumbaya was invented in the third millennium BC. Further evidence also suggests that warfare is certainly only a Western phenomenon. This is Bulgaria which is located in the West.
Archaeology: 7000 year-old village found near Bulgarian town of Shoumen
Mon, Jul 26 2010 15:27 CET
The Sofia Echo staff
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Shoumen
A settlement dating back about 7000 years has been discovered by a hill near the village of Ivanovo, in Shoumen municipality, in eastern Bulgaria, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on July 26 2010.
The settlement, 900 sq m in area, lies between two rivers on the south face of the hill. In spite of its natural defences, the settlement was fortified with a defensive wall of “unusual shape”, BNT said.
“The shape of the fortification was not circular or oval-like, which was typical for the time but an irregular pattern resembling an octagon,” archaeologist Svetlana Venelinova said in a television interview for BNT.
Additionally, the entire settlement was encircled by a moat outside the fortification.
The houses within the settlement faced south, and some of them were two-storeys high and “aristocratic”.
“We found copious amounts of wood in the houses, which suggests that in those days people were aware of hydro-insulation techniques, installing wood planks on the floor,” Venelinova said.
The artifacts unearthed suggest that those residing in that settlement enjoyed a “high social status”, the report said.
Note: this topic is from 7/3/2009. Related to that other one, at least conceptually. ;')
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