[SunkenCiv]

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a new ancient settlement. Photo by BGNES

[SunkenCiv]

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[Condor51]

The most valuable find of the archaeologists, however, is a fortification that protected the village mound from the west.

WHAT? A 'Fort'?
I thought our ancestors sat around camp fires sharing food and singing Kumbaya?

[theDentist]

"I think I used an outhouse there once....
or it could only be used as an outhouse after I left...
I forget which."

[CholeraJoe]

Impossible. Don’t you know the earth is only a little more than 6000 years old?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Pretty close to the Black Sea. Perhaps related to the conjectural civilization now under the water of that sea.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2010/07/26/937763_archaeology-7000-year-old-village-found-near-bulgarian-town-of-shoumen

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.