6,500-Year-Old Graves Unearthed in Bulgaria

6,500-Year-Old Graves Unearthed in Bulgaria
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

KAMENOVO, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that the 6,500-year-old graves of three adults and one child have been discovered underneath a former school yard in northeast Bulgaria. Earlier this year, the team of archaeologists, led by Yavor Boyadzhiev of the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology, Dimitar Chernakov of the Ruse Regional Museum of History, and Dilen Dilov of the Razgrad Regional Museum of History, found a flint-tool workshop from the same time period near the newly discovered necropolis. Pottery and flint tools were found in the graves, and the child’s grave contained three beads made from Spondylus shells, which suggest that the residents had a trading relationship with people living near the Mediterranean Sea. Flint bowls painted with black, red, and white were found in one of the adult graves. For more, go to "8,000-Year-Old Village Unearthed in Bulgaria."

http://www.archaeology.org/news/3708-150923-bulgaria-chalcolithic-necropolis