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<< Text Pages >> Telish-Lîga - Ancient Village or Settlement in Bulgaria

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 13 November 2010  Page Views: 5399

Multi-periodSite Name: Telish-Lîga
Country: Bulgaria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Telish
Latitude: 43.342587N  Longitude: 24.280707E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement and cemetery in Pleven District,
A multi-component site with separate habitation horizons, although 5th Millennium BC Copper Age settlements have been most thoroughly investigated.

The second of these, Liga 2, had uniformly placed and sized homes. It was destroyed by a sudden fire, leaving intact homes that included copper tools, bowls with spoons inside, and "goddess" figurines.
Later components include a 4000 BC burial site, a 3000 BC Bronze Age settlement, a 9th C BC ritual site with pottery 'killed' before being carefully buried, and a midden from 5-6th C AD.
A webpage from the Centre of World Archaeology describes the site.

The location given is general for a stream and modern fish ponds described. It is not specific to the excavations of the site.

Note: Bulgarian Archaeology. Multiple cultures and eras associated with sites near Telish. See comments.
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Re: Telish-Lîga by Anonymous on Thursday, 02 January 2014
43.342587° N 24.280707° E [Corrected]
Excavation visible in Goggle Earth correlated with report in http://www.worldarchaeology.net/bulgaria/archa_research.htm
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Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth 7000-Year-Old Village by bat400 on Saturday, 13 November 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---
A prehistoric home dated back 7000 years has been uncovered by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists at Telish in the central northern District of Pleven.

The team led by archaeologist Ventsislav Gergov is convinced that the home found in a place known as "Laga" is part of a village with at least 30 houses.

"Our ancient predecessor constructed amazingly robust homes, much more robust than many of the contemporary apartment buildings," Gergov believes.

"The walls of the homes were made of stamped clay mixed with cow manure and straw, and were additionally supported with wooden poles. This is how the home becomes monolithic and acquires amazing heating isolation," he explained.

Gergov has found parts of over 40 highly-ornate ceramic vessels inside the home as well as two clay ovens built one over the other.

The excavations of the site will continue for only one more week because of lack of funding. All finds will be turned in to the Pleven Regional History Museum. This is not Gergov's first prehistoric discovery at Telish; a place which has turned out to harbor some of the oldest remains of civilized settlements in the world.

For more, see http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=120485
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Archaeological culture and prehistory: Salcuta-Telish case study by bat400 on Saturday, 13 November 2010
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The prehistoric archaeology is one of the most important disciplines to learn about evolution of human society. It provides primary evidence of when and how people began to create and reproduce households, to develop successful strategies for healthy life and to create wonderful human culture and creativity.

One of the basic categories of prehistoric archaeology is archaeological culture. This is a regional term since the archaeological culture encompasses similar and identical material culture over a specific region during a specific period. The sites can be compact or spread over vast region. Archaeological culture requires a diachronic connectivity and presumes territorial connectivity although there are exceptions. As a rule, inner migrations result in a change of the material culture style, so one and the same population can be a barrier of different cultures. It is also presumed in prehistory that identical or very similar culture means a population with one and the same social identity that can be also named ethnicity.

Defining an archaeological culture is a primary and huge responsibility of archaeologists. From global perspectives it is accepted that the local archaeologists have competence and enough academic education for correct recognition of the different archaeological cultures. Although usually based on replication and updates, defining new archaeological culture nowadays means in some cases a new scientific knowledge. However, some “new” cultures unfortunately create theoretical and ethical problems.

One of the lines of scholarly misconducts in prehistoric archaeology is renaming of well-known archaeological cultures. Typical instance is the case with Galatin in historiography: a well known culture (Salcuta IV / Salcuta IV – Telish IV / Salcuta - Telish) was renamed Galatin by P. Georgieva in her contradicting PhD thesis (see the cited literature by P. Georgieva in Nikolova 1999). There was no single argument for such renaming.

Salcuta IV was first discovered in Oltenia, Romania. In Bulgaria the only site with rich settlement and pottery information was Telish, while Galatin provided handful well known from the other sites shards without any stratigraphic context. During the battle of culture naming there was even a rumor that Georgieva imported Sheibenhenkel shards from Telish to make “her culture” more impressive. Curiously, it is a fact that the initial excavations of Galatin conducted did not report Scheibenhenkel shards. On top of everything, as a student P. Georgieva tried to mislead the director of an excavation that there was an artifact discovered in a grave of Pit Grave Culture. It was put by her under the head of the buried although with inventory number. Such joke was out of understanding of all other students who accepted the excavations as a scientific laboratory and not a place for game-like fraud.

Salcuta IV (or Salcuta – Telish) is organically connected with Central Europe, so Northwest Bulgaria is just a periphery of this culture, which is of primary importance for understanding the Final Copper Age period in the Balkans .

Curiously, instead following the scientific line of Balkan prehistoric research, new authors, without proved knowledge on the region, replicated non-scholarly line of research. Recently, I. Merkyte included Galatin in a complicated chronological table, without any explanation. Such accumulation of mistakes creates layers of difficulties to understand Balkan prehistoric archaeology. Luckily, after the popular rediscoveries of cultures in Northeast Bulgaria by H. Todorova in later 20th century, Galatin is a rare instance of theoretical misconduct.

For more on the intrigues associated with Balkan Archaeology, and including references, see http://www.examiner.com/world-culture-in-national/archaeological-culture-and-prehistory-salcuta-telish-ca

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