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ΑΡΘΡΑ | 2010

11 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

A source in Bulgaria for Early Neolithic ‘Balkan flint’

P. Biagi & E. Starnini Antiquity 84 (September 2010): webpage.

Περίληψη (στα Αγγλικά)

During a study trip in the Lower Danube Valley in the summer of 2009, we crossed the western part of the Moesian Platform, along a route partly following the Iskar River Valley, which brought us to the Danube throughout Pleven and Nikopol. Here, along the road that runs parallel to the Zass’idere torrent, close to its confluence with the Danube at the southern outskirts of Nikopol, we noticed that the cutting of the earth road along the slopes of Ali Kach Baba hill had exposed a white chalk formation (Upper Cretaceous) with several embedded seams of flint nodules. Many cores, flakes and by-products of blade debitage also lay on the surface of a pathway that led to a shrine of the Turkish period. The importance of the discovery was immediately evident, because the raw material is, without doubt, the well-known, yellow-honey coloured, white spotted, waxy, ‘Balkan Flint’, which is common to the assemblages of the Early Neolithic sites of the Balkans. Furthermore, there was evidence of flint exploitation and reduction on the spot.

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