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2 FACETS OF THE PAST THE CHALLENGE OF THE BALKAN NEO-ENEOLITHIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE 85 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF EUGEN COMŞA 6 12 OCTOBER 2008, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

3 Responsible editor: Alexandra Comşa Clive Bonsall Editors: Lolita Nikolova FACETS OF THE PAST THE CHALLENGE OF THE BALKAN NEO-ENEOLITHIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE 85 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF EUGEN COMŞA 6 12 OCTOBER 2008, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY Bucharest, 2013

4 TOWARDS THE MEANING OF FLINT GRAVE GOODS: A CASE STUDY FROM BULGARIA CU PRIVIRE LA SEMNIFICAŢIA INVENTARULUI FUNERAR DIN SILEX: UN STUDIU DE CAZ DIN BULGARIA Maria GUROVA Prehistory Department National Institute of Archaeology and Museum BAS, 2, Saborna Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria gurovam@yahoo.fr Cuvinte-cheie: cimitirul Durankulak, culturile Hamangia şi Varna, inventar funerar din silex, conotaţii funcţionale. Rezumat: Analiza obiectelor funerare poate conduce la o mai bunǎ înţelegere a conceptului larg, explorat, dar încǎ enigmatic, de sacru, faţǎ de profan. Artefactele din cremene includ un rol funcţional primordial şi conotaţii în cadrul vieţii de zi cu zi a predecesorilor noştri preistorici, dar şi un rol secundar (simbolic). Pentru a releva şi descifra corect aceste douǎ nivele cognitive în biografia obiectelor de cremene este o sarcinǎ provocatoare, dar şi promiţǎtoare, care va contribui la interpretarea la nivel înalt a practicilor rituale, necesitând abordǎrile ştiinţifice combinate ale arheologilor, antropologilor, specialiştilor în religie etc. Aceastǎ lucrare prezintǎ şi pune în discuţie rezultatul analizei funcţionale a obiectelor de cremene din mormintele din cimitirul de la Durankulak, din nord-estul Bulgariei, în relaţie cu vârsta, sexul şi elementele distinctive ale statutului social al celor decedaţi, pe o perioadǎ largǎ, care se desfǎşoarǎ între neoliticul târziu (Cultura Hamangia) şi chalcolithic (Cultura Varna). Durankulak este un cimitir unic, care a fost complet sǎpat şi publicat. Astfel, el reprezintǎ o sursǎ abundentǎ, care oferǎ scopul pentru o analizǎ ulterioarǎ şi o interpretare a problemelor enumerate mai sus. Key words: Durankulak cemetery, Hamangia and Varna cultures, flint grave goods, functional connotation. Abstract: The analysis of funerary objects can lead to a better understanding of the large, explored, but still enigmatic epistemological concept of sacred versus profane. Flint grave goods embody a primary functional role and connotation within the everyday life of our prehistoric predecessors, but also a secondary symbolic (ritual) meaning. To reveal and correctly read these two cognitive levels in the grave goods biography is a challenging yet promising task, which will contribute to a higher-level interpretation of ritual practices, requiring the combined scientific approaches of archaeologists, anthropologists, specialists in religion, etc. This paper presents and discusses the results of the functional analysis of flint grave goods from the Durankulak cemetery, in north-eastern Bulgaria, in relation to the age, gender and status distinctions between the deceased, across a broad time range from the Late Neolithic (Hamangia culture) to the Late Chalcolithic (Varna culture). Durankulak is a unique cemetery that has been completely excavated and published. It thus represents an abundant source which offers scope for further analysis and interpretation of the problems highlighted above.

5 376 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria Durankulak cemetery and its cognitive importance Bulgaria is renowned for its 11 prehistoric (mainly Chalcolithic) cemeteries, situated in the north-eastern part of the country. Of these, Varna is the most famous and is usually regarded as eclipsing the others. On the other hand, the Durankulak necropolis is unique, because all its archaeological remains have been completely investigated and published 1 (Fig. 1). In the Durankulak cemetery, the presence of gold and copper objects is much more modest and the differentiation of grave goods deposition among individual burials is less striking, compared to Varna. At Durakulak there are, however, very interesting features to be observed and discussed, in its abundant and exceptionally rich database. Durankulak provides an excellent opportunity to trace and reveal, diachronically, the mortuary practices characteristic of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities for four principal reasons: 1 the cemetery is associated with a tell settlement located about 200 m to the north; 2 the excavation of 1204 burials; 3 the one millennium time span; 4 all stages of both the Hamangia and Varna cultures are represented in the cemetery; C 14 dates combined with the well-documented chronological sequence from another settlements belonging to the same culture provide the following chronological framework 2 : Early Hamangia (phases I, II) Late Neolithic; 5250/ /4900 cal BC; Hamangia III beginning of the Chalcolithic; 4950/ /4600 cal BC; Hamangia IV Middle Chalcolithic; 4650/ /4500 cal BC; Varna I III Late Chalcolithic; Varna I 4550/ /4400 cal BC; Varna II-III 4450/ /4150 cal BC. Fig. 1 Map of Bulgaria with localisation of Durankulak cemetery. 1 Todorova Boyadžiev 2002, 67.

6 Facets of the past 377 It is worth mentioning that the new AMS dates from the Varna cemetery suggest an overall span of cemetery use of years: from ~ 4560 to ~ 4450 cal BC. As the promoters of this new radiocarbon dating approach underline: This is a period coeval with the Middle Copper Age on other sites and in other regions, as defined by Boyadzhiev. The Varna dates advance by one or two centuries the beginning of the Late Copper Age in the Black Sea zone 3. This discrepancy in radiocarbon determinations certainly needs to be resolved, but the chronological problems and discussions about the Chalcolithic period are beyond of the scope of this article. According to the most recent study of the Durankulak phenomenon, all changes originating in the Hamangia IV culture (e.g. arrangement of the funerary features, vertical stratigraphy by sex-and-age criteria, strictly fixed body positions for men and women, contents and layout patterns of the grave goods) were fully established and generally accepted at the beginning of the Varna culture. Mortuary practices became highly standardized with a few, minor exceptions 4. At the outset of this presentation of the Durankulak flint assemblages, a point needs to be made that may seem self-evident if not bordering on the banal; it is that multi-aspect analysis of the grave goods (including the flint artefacts) facilitates a better understanding of the challenging, epistemological problem of the sacred versus the secular/profane in our reading and understanding of the past. The presence of flints among prestige grave goods is significant for both the question of symbolism and the adequate discerning of their relevance to other votive offerings and ritual deposits. In comparison with other grave goods, the flint implements possess a pronouncedly dualistic semantic position, because of their profound and inherent role, also in everyday life. Functional connotation of the flint grave goods A techno-typological study of the flint assemblages from the Durankulak cemetery was carried out by N. Sirakov 5, while the present author has investigated the flint artefacts from a functional point of view 6. Concerning the composition of the flint assemblages, it should be stressed that there are very few cores and flakes. In contrast, blades are quite numerous blanks with various morphologies and dimensions, used as funerary gifts. Among the typological repertoire retouched blades, truncations, endscrapers, burins and geometric microliths constitute the most prominent types (Figs. 2 and 3). 3 Higham et alii, 2007, Boyadžiev 2008, Sirakov 2002, Gurova 2002,

7 378 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria Fig. 2 Flint artefacts as grave-goods (after Sirakov 2002, Fig. 15, p. 245).

8 Facets of the past 379 Fig. 3 Flint artefacts as grave-goods (after Sirakov 2002, Fig. 14, p. 244).

9 380 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria Fig. 4 Superblades as grave-goods: 1 burial 597; 2 burial 1162; 3 burial 977 (after Sirakov 2002, Fig. 16, p. 246).

10 Facets of the past 381 Fig. 5 Burial 644 with flint grave-goods (after Todorova (ed.), 2002, Teil 2, Table 99).

11 382 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria Fig. 6 Sewing kit from burial 577 (after Todorova (ed.), 2002, Teil 2, Table 111). Micro-wear analysis was undertaken with MBS 10 ( 100) and METAM P 1 ( 400) microscopes. Unfortunately, lack of time precluded the making of microphotographs before publication 7. The results of this analysis may be considered and used as additional information for the selection (conscious, or random) of those flint implements, which were taken out of their normal settlement context (and hence, also removed from their normal life-span) and transformed into the votive and symbolic meaning of grave goods. The assemblage that was available for use-wear analysis consisted of 184 artefacts from 133 burials (the neonatus and infans (I and II) burials are presented under the rubric child ) (Table 1). Table 1 Distribution of flint grave goods by burial type and period Burials Hamangia I-II Hamangia III Hamangia IV Varna Total Male Female Child Cenotaph Total Flints Used The data from the use-wear analysis are presented in Tables 2 5, according to the chrono-cultural context of the flint material. In order to facilitate the reading of the tabulated data, the gender/age affiliation and functional determination of the flint grave goods are presented using the following symbols: 7 Unfortunately, the material is no longer available for analysis.

12 Facets of the past 383 female burial; male burial; neonatus, infans (I and II); cenotaph * presumed function; unidentified worked material; undetermined function because of natural alteration. Table 2 Flint grave goods from the Hamangia I II complex Burial N Gender Flint artefacts Used Function scraping hide projectile point* projectile point (arrowhead) scraping wood; cutting plants (reeds) combined tool (cutting plants, scraping wood); cutting meat/hide projectile point (arrowhead) cutting meat/hide cutting fresh hide projectile point (arrowhead) sawing wood scraping wood total Table 3 Flint grave goods from the Hamangia III complex Burial N Gender Flint artefacts Used Function cutting meat/hide cutting meat/hide piercing hide projectile point (arrowhead) projectile point (arrowhead) projectile point (arrowhead) 676 1

13 384 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria sickle insert sawing hard material combined tool (scraping wood; cutting meat/hide) projectile point (arrowhead); 2 projectile points (arrowhead) * scraping and cutting hide combined tool (scraping wood; cutting meat/hide) sickle insert cutting meat/hide total Table 4 Flint grave goods from the Hamangia IV complex Burial N Gender Flint artefacts Used Function scraping wood combined tool (pottery polisher; scraping wood) cutting meat/hide cutting plants (reeds) projectile point (arrowhead) cutting meat/hide cutting soft material scraping fresh hide projectile point (arrowhead) sickle insert cutting meat/hide cutting cereals; scraping pottery cutting meat/hide sawing wood combined tool (cutting plants; cutting meat/hide) sawing bone total 24 17

14 Facets of the past 385 Table 5 Flint grave goods from the Varna complex Burial N Gender Flint artefacts Used Function scraping hide; cutting meat/hide; projectile point (arrowhead) combined tools (scraping wood and hide); (piercing and cutting hide) combined tool (scraping wood and hide); cutting hard material ; cutting soft material sawing and scraping wood cutting meat/hide cutting cereals cutting hide scraping hard material combined tool (scraping wood and cutting cereals) sickle insert; cutting soft material projectile point *; sawing bone; scraping hide; sickle insert scraping hard material sickle insert cutting plants (herb) cutting meat/hide grinding minerals cutting meat/hide cutting cereals scraping wood; cutting meat/hide sawing wood cutting plants (herb) sickle insert; cutting meat/hide (x2) cutting meat/hide cutting cereals piercing hide; cutting hide scraping wood

15 386 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria cutting meat/hide combined tool (cutting plants; cutting hide) sawing bone scraping wood drilling wood scraping hide sickle insert scraping wood sickle insert sickle insert scraping hide combined tool (cutting plants; cutting meat/hide); cutting soft material cutting plants (reeds) cutting hard material 2A 2 2 scraping wood; sickle insert scraping wood combined tool (cutting plants; softening hide) cutting plants (herb) cutting meat/hide scraping hide cutting meat/hide cutting meat/hide cutting meat/hide cutting meat/hide combined tool (scraping wood; cutting hide) scraping bone scraping wood cutting plants (reeds) cutting plants (reeds) total combined tool (cutting plant; scraping hide) The results of the functional determination of the used implements can be briefly summarized as follows: The number of the flints used as funerary gifts and the number of artefacts with use-wear traces of the Hamangia I II and Hamangia III periods are comparable. During Hamangia IV there was a decrease in flint offerings, but an

16 Facets of the past 387 increasing number of implements showing evidence of use. The late Chalcolithic Varna culture is characterised by both an increase in burials with flint offerings, as well as an increase of flint artefacts with evidence of use in total 4x more than the preceding Hamangia IV culture. It is noteworthy that flint offerings are attested among all the categories of deceased, throughout the entire sequence in the cemetery. It is also interesting to point out that from the beginning of Hamangia I II to the end of Hamangia IV, the ratio of male:female burials containing flints is around 4:1. During the Varna culture, surprisingly, female burials with flint offerings slightly prevail over male burials (ratio 33:26). It is possible to distinguish three main functions among the flint items: knives for cutting meat and/or trimming fresh hides predominate (23), followed by sickle blades (15) and projectile points/arrowheads (14). There is only one artefact category that both typologically and functionally could be determined as a male offering component arrowheads, represented by geometric microliths (some of which were termed by Sirakov Vielle-type points. It is noteworthy that the majority of this last-mentioned type is associated with Hamangia phases I III. There is no other category of flint artefacts and toolkits showing gender determination. Sickle blades are attested in male and female burials, belonging both to the Varna and Hamangia IV cultures, in a ratio of 11:4. The so-called sewing kit (which is discussed in more detail below), attributed by Todorova to tailoring (i.e. female) activities, appears in every type of burial male, female, cenotaph, and child. They are also chiefly attested in the graves of the Varna culture (Varna: Hamangia IV = 42:8). One cannot omit the super-blades from Durankulak (Fig. 4). They are not as long as the best specimens from the Varna cemetery; nevertheless, they are among the biggest flint blades found in Bulgaria, a fact that indicates some significant features linked firstly with the manufacture of the blades and secondly with their role in the burial context. In total, among the grave goods, there are seven blades with a length of c. 20 cm or longer. Most of them are massive fragments, over 12 cm in length, the intact specimens measuring respectively 25 and 29.4 cm long. The longest blade (29.6 cm) has a distal fracture; the original length was probably more than 30 cm (Fig. 4 1). Six of the big blades come from male burials, and only one had been deposited in a female burial. Only one specimen has diagnostic use-wear traces; the rest cannot be ascribed a functional purpose, because of the post-depositional polish and edge damage. If one may presume on the basis of the Varna evidence, that the presence of a super-blade represents a sign of power, high social status and wealth attributes of men as traditionally understood within prehistoric communities such blades ought to be associated with male burials and male grave goods. In this respect, the association

17 388 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria of the biggest complete blade with the female burial N 1162 at Durankulak is difficult to understand (Fig. 4 3). There is only one burial (644) with eight flint artefacts among the grave goods, which comprise one microlith, (part of a composite arrow) and seven unretouched blades with no traces of use (Fig. 5). Sewing-kits as particular grave goods Recently, the present author has put forward a new functional interpretation of this special category of grave goods from the Durankulak cemetery that were named by their discoverer, H. Todorova, sewing-kits or nécessaires. It was suggested that these toolkits represented particular hoards, and this aspect will not be discussed further here 8. Typically, these toolkits comprise four elements: a flint artefact, a bone awl, a pebble polisher and a shell, all of which were normally deposited in a carinated jar, or bowl with a lid 9 (Fig. 6). Todorova s idea is based on a presumption that this is a toolkit that could be linked with some form tailoring activity. In this sense, one can assume that this category of grave goods was associated with females. In fact, these sewing-kits are attested in every main type of burial, but they predominate in female graves 27 cases. Their frequency in male, cenotaph and child burials is respectively 13:7:3. Frequency of hoard hoard' elements combination flint/stone flint/copper flint/stone/shell flint/stone/copper flint/stone/bone/ochre flint/bone flint/stone/bone flint/bone/shell flint/stone/bone/shell stone/bone Diagram 1 Frequency of the combinations of the hoard elements. 8 Gurova 2006, It should be stressed that all pottery was made for the specific purpose of deposition in the graves, as models of real vessels.

18 Facets of the past 389 In the cemetery, there were 51 of these particular hoards, 32 of which were available for use-wear analysis. The statistical data presented here are based on the published catalogue, but data on the flint functions are derived from personal analysis. The generalized statistical data give the following results: 51 sewing kits come from 50 burials; one cenotaph (518) contains two toolkits; the cultural determination is as follows: Hamangia IV culture 8; Varna culture 42. the sexual determination is as follows 10 : male 13 child 3 female 27 cenotaph 7 The most concentrated occurrence of these particular hoards is in the southern part of the cemetery which is the main area of the Hamangia IV and Varna graves. A few isolated toolkits are found in Varna culture graves, located in the north-eastern and northern parts of the cemetery. Despite the persuasive interpretation of these sewing-kits as coherent complexes, there is a variation in the frequency of the different components. This diversity is shown on Diagram 1. It seems that the combination of flint artefacts and bone awl is the most common; followed by the combination of flint/stone/bone and the largest one, that is flint/stone/bone/shell. It is obvious, from the diagram, that two components, flint artefact and bone tool (usually an awl), are presented in the three highest columns: positions 2, 4 and 8. Apparently this is the most frequent and stable combination of items. Whatever the function of this toolkit, a blade of flint can easily be a multifunctional tool, the usefulness of which is completed by a bone-piercing tool. The remaining components may be viewed as supplementary attributes to a basic toolkit. It is challenging to try to determine the precise functions of the flint artefacts in the hoards. The flint assemblage subjected to use-wear analysis consisted of 39 items; of these 33 specimens were found to have traces of utilization. The results of the functional examination are presented in Table 6. Table 6 Results of use-wear analysis of the flint artefacts from the toolkits studied Burial Flint No artefacts Used Function Gender Context sawing wood Varna II III cutting plants Varna I 10 It should be noted that I have taken into consideration the biological identification of sex: in only two cases was there a contradiction with the archaeological determination (according to the grave goods); in three other cases, the archaeological determination was used because of the absence of anthropological data.

19 390 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria Varna II III sickle insert; cutting meat/hide ( 2) Varna I Varna sawing and scraping wood Varna I cutting meat/hide Varna I cutting cereals Varna II III Varna I Varna sawing wood Hamangia IV Varna I cutting meat/hide Varna I piercing hide; cutting hide Varna I Varna I scraping wood Varna II III cutting meat/hide Varna II scraping wood /bone? Varna I cutting meat/hide Hamangia IV cutting meat/hide (x2) Varna I cutting meat/hide Hamangia IV scraping bone Varna I sawing bone; scraping hide; Varna III cutting meat/ hide scraping wood Varna II scraping wood Varna cutting plants Varna III sickle insert Varna II III scraping fresh hide Hamangia IV /Varna I sickle insert Varna II III cutting cereals; scraping pottery Hamangia IV sickle insert Varna III scraping hide Varna II III Total burials male female child cenotaph The most frequent manual operations seem to have been longitudinal cutting and sawing followed by scraping and (rarely) piercing. The material whose treatment is most often attested is meat/fresh hide, which suggests largescale working of animal products. In equal quantity are tools for wood processing and harvesting implements sickle blades. These heterogeneous functions of the flint components of the hoards do not indicate any special or precise purpose for

20 Facets of the past 391 the sewing-kits. Rather, they comprise flint tools extracted from different everyday household activities and from subsistence farming practices such as harvesting. Discussion One of the most important observations of the Durankulak funerary evidence is that the flint grave goods in general do not vary greatly according to the sex and age of the deceased with whom they were associated. There are two exceptions: geometric microliths (found only in male burials) and big blades that are not found in neonatus/infans burials, for example. It is noteworthy, however, that the children were obviously subjected to the same rituals and ceremonies as the adults, suggesting that, despite of their premature death, they were respected and considered as normal individuals and social group members 11. The present paper does not claim to offer solutions to the epistemological problems formulated in the Introduction. It offers additional data, which could be useful in the wider contextual consideration of mortuary practices. It is useful to recall the reasoning of one leading specialist on the Balkan Chalcolithic, John Chapman. On the basis of the most power-full social arena of the Copper Age the Varna cemetery it is argued that the mortuary assemblages from north-east Bulgarian cemeteries represent the most elaborate sets of objects the main significance of the term of hoard transmitting the complex of social relations and conditions 12. Later syntheses by the same scholar led him to generalize that, depending on the social context and evolutionary stage of the farming period, the sets of objects, being a materialized form of the society s relations, emerge as depositions in the domestic domain, extra-mural cemetery context, or as hoards, located at some distance from the settlements 13. In any case, the more complex and differentiated the social community, the more complex are the objects biographies in the depositions. Without doubt, during the Chalcolithic in north-east Bulgaria, the most complex social arena for hierarchy/status legitimization was the mortuary domain. In this respect, the most complex and sophisticated sets of objects become the grave goods and ritual paraphernalia. In spite of the richness of the debate on the Varna problem, there is still a huge field of phenomena to be investigated and explained, and problems to be resolved. A good case study has already been provided for advancing the hoard/grave goods research and discussion this is the meticulous description and 11 Boyadžiev & Gurova, 2008, Chapman 1991, Chapman 2000,

21 392 Flint grave goods: a case study from Bulgaria interpretation of the hoard from Tell Omurtag in north-east Bulgaria 14. Further studies and debates of the issues concerned will be warmly welcomed. It is tempting to cite as a final remark a quotation from D. Bailey s review of the Durankulak volumes: The potential for re-thinking established sex and gender trends in mortuary treatment in the Neolithic Balkans is huge 15. Bibliography Bailey D., Hofmann D., 2005 D. Bailey, D. Hofmann, H. Todorova (eds.), Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder (Durankulak II; 2 volumes) Sofia: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Book Review, in: Antiquity, 79, 303, 2005, p Boyadžiev J., 2002 J. Boyadžiev, Die absolute Chronologie der neo-und äneolithischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, in: Todorova, H. (Hrsg.), Durankulak, Band. II, Teil 1, Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, Sofia, 2002, p Boyadžiev Y., Y. Boyadžiev, Changes of the burial rites within the transition from Hamangia to Varna culture, in: Slavchev, V. (ed.), Varna Chalcolithic Cemetery and the Problems of the South-East Europe Prehistory. In memoriam Ivan Ivanov, in: Acta Musei Varnaensis, VI, Varna, 2008, p Boyadžiev Y., Gurova M., 2008 Y. Boyadžiev, M. Gurova, Mobilier funéraire de nouveau-nés et d enfants: cas d étude de la Bulgarie, in: Bacvarov K. (ed.) Babies Reborn: Infant/child burials in pre- and protohistory. (Proceedings of the UISPP XV World Congress, Lisbon, 4 9 September 2006, vol. 24) Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008, p Chapman J., 1991 J. Chapman, The Creation of Social Arenas in the Neolithic and Copper Age of S.E. Europe: The Case of Varna, in: Garwood, P./Jennings, D./ Skeates, R./Toms, J. (eds.). Sacred and Profane. Proceeding of a Conference on Archaeology, Ritual and Religion. Oxford, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Monograph 32, 1991, p Chapman J., 2000 J. Chapman, Fragmentation in Archaeology. People, places and broken objects in the prehistory of south-eastern Europe, London, New York: Routledge, Gurova M., 2002 M. Gurova, Mobilier en silex de la nécropole Dourankulak analyse fonctionnelle, in: Todorova, H. (Hrsg.). Durankulak, Band. II, Teil 1, Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, Sofia, 2002, p Gurova M., 2006 M. Gurova, Prehistoric flints as grave goods/hoards: functional connotation, in: Archaeologia Bulgarica, X, 1, 2006, p Higham T. et alii, 2007 T. Higham, J. Chapman, V. Slavchev, B. Gaydarska, N. Honch, Y. Yordanov, B. Dimitrova, New perspectives on the Varna cemetery (Bulgaria) AMS dates and social implications, in: Antiquity, 81, 2007, p Gaydarska et alii, 2004, Bailey & Hofmann, 2005, 221.

22 Facets of the past 393 Sirakov N., 2002 N. Sirakov, Flint artefacts in prehistoric grave-good assemblages from the Durankulak cemetery, in: Todorova, H. (Hrsg.). Durankulak, Band. II, Teil 1, Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, Sofia, 2002, p Gaydarska B. et alii, 2004 B. Gaydarska, J. Chapman, I. Angelova, M. Gurova, S. Yanev, Breaking, making and trading: the Omurtag Eneolithic Spondylus hoard, in: Archaeologica Bulgarica, VIII, 2, 2004, p Todorova H., 2002 H. Todorova (Hrsg.), Durankulak, Band. II, Teil1 1,2, Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, Sofia: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Todorova H. et alii, 2002 H. Todorova, T. Dimov, J. Bojadžiev, I. Vajsov, K. Dimitrov, M. Avramova, Katalog der prähistorischen Gräber von Durankulak, in: H. Todorova (Hrsg.), Durankulak. Band II, Teil 2. Die prähistorischen Gräberfelder von Durankulak, Sofia: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2002, p

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