Browsing by Autor "Marlena Yaneva"

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By the rivers of Nova Nadezhda: dynamics of human–environment interaction at a prehistoric site in Upper Thrace
(2017) Marlena Yaneva; Nadezhda Todorova; Georgi Katsarov; Vanya Petrova; Krum Bacvarov
The archaeological site of Nova Nadezhda is located on a T1 terrace on the right bank of the Maritsa River and on the left bank of its right tributary, the Dermen Dere stream. Comparison of the grain-size and mineral composition of sediments from the site and natural deposits from the Maritsa and the Dermen Dere suggests that the stream recurrently flooded the eastern part of the site in the later prehistory (6th and 5th mill. BC) and later shifted its course to the east. Terrace sediments and later incisions of the Maritsa and the Dermen Dere are obvious in 2D resistivity images.
The chaîne opératoire of 6th millennium BC pottery making in the Maritsa Valley, Bulgaria: ceramics from Nova Nadezhda
(De Gruyter, 2019) Michela Spataro; Georgi Katsarov; Nadezhda Todorova; Atanas Tsurev; Nikolina Nikolova; Marlena Yaneva; Krum Bacvarov
Abstract 40 potsherds and five other fired clay fragments from the prehistoric site of Nova Nadezhda in Bulgarian Thrace were analysed by archaeometric techniques. Twenty sherds and a daub fragment were analysed in thin section by optical microscopy; these thin sections, and thick sections of a further 24 sherds were also analysed by SEM-EDX. Results were used to describe the Early Neolithic chaîne opératoire at Nova Nadezhda, which was then compared to pottery production in roughly contemporaneous Starčevo-Criş communities in the central Balkans, to shed light on the Neolithisation process that took place in the 6th millennium BC. A variety of ceramic recipes was used to make different vessel shapes. Analyses of surface coatings were particularly enlightening in terms of provenance and the organisation of pottery production.