The Karanovo culture is a neolithic culture

Neolithic Europe

Neolithic Europe refers to a prehistoric period in which Neolithic technology was present in Europe. This corresponds roughly to a time between 7000 BC and c. 1700 BC...

 (Karanovo I-III ca. 62nd to 55th centuries BC) named for the Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n village of Karanovo (Караново, Sliven Province

Sliven Province

Sliven Province is a province in southeastern Bulgaria, named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Sliven. It embraces a territory of 3,544.1 km² that is divided into 4 municipalities, with a total population, as of December 2009, of 204,887...

 42°30′41"N 25°54′54"E). The site at Karanovo itself was a hilltop settlement of 18 buildings, housing some 100 inhabitants.http://w3.cnice.mec.es/eos/MaterialesEducativos/mem2001/huellas/origenes/neolitico/030dondevivian.htm. This site was inhabited more or less continuously from the early 7th to the early 2nd millennia BC.

The layers at Karanovo are employed as a chronological system for Balkans prehistory:

Literature

• Stefan Hiller, Vassil Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III. Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa Österreichisch-Bulgarische Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Karanovo, Band III, Vienna (2000), ISBN 3-901232-19-2.
• Dominique Jongbloed, Civilisations antédiluviennes, Alphée. 2011

External links

• http://www.bulgariatravel.org/eng/sights.php?id=15
• http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/balkanneolithic1.htm
• http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/harsova/en/dobro3.htm