Bulgaria. Archaeologists Uncover Europe's First Civilization

Ancient mound in Bulgaria yields vestiges of one of the first urban settlements in Europe.

A team of archaeologists have unearthed additional evidence of what may have been Europe's first civilization at a site located near the town of Pazardzhik in southern Bulgaria. Known as Yunatsite, it is a Tell (mound containing archaeological remains) about 110 meters in diameter and 12 meters high, rising above fields next to a small Bulgarian village by the same name. The Tell contains remains of an urbanized settlement dated at its earliest to the early fifth millenium BC.

Directed by Yavor Boyadzhiev of the National Institute of Archaeology and Museums, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, excavators have unearthed artifacts such as weapons, Spondylus jewels, decorated fineware pottery, shards marked by characters/pictograms, and evidence of structures dated to 4900 BC, including fortifications and a recently discovered wooden platform that was likely the floor of a building that had been destroyed by fire. [...] popular-archaeology.com


Actualización 15-12-12. Auge y caída de la primera civilización europea: el Tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria)
Un equipo de arqueólogos ha desenterrado evidencia adicional de lo que pudo haber sido la primera civilización europea en un lugar ubicado cerca de la ciudad de Pazardzhik, en el sur de Bulgaria.

Conocido como Yunatsite, se trata de un Tell (montículo que contiene restos arqueológicos) de unos 110 metros de diámetro y 12 metros de alto, elevándose por encima de los campos próximos al pequeño pueblo búlgaro del mismo nombre. El Tell contiene restos de un asentamiento urbanizado datado en los primeros años del V milenio a.C...


Actualización 11-11-14. “Yunatsite” settlement mound and the oldest European civilization
Evidence has been piling up in favour of a very bold theory - that it is the Balkan Peninsula, rather than ancient Mesopotamia that is the cradle of our civilization. The evidence of a little known culture preceding Egyptian and even Sumerian culture has been attracting the attention of researchers, turning everything we know about antiquity upside down. Remains of this ancient society have gradually been emerging from the ashes of human history taking us some 6-7 millennia back in time when a highly-advanced unknown civilization flourished in our lands, a period which preceded Sumer and Akkad by at least one millennium...

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Vídeo YouTube por Balkan Heritage Foundation & Field School el 2/4/2014 añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.7 nº 33.