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Excavation

  • Velushka Tumba
  • Porodin, Pelagonia
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  • North Macedonia
  • Bitola

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • Velushka Tumba is a known Neolithic site in the central part of Pelagonia, whose history of investigation goes back to the 1970’s. The last cycle of investigations begun in 2015 with detailed survey of the site and its surroundings, through geomagnetic scanning, 3D modelling, revision of the existing assemblage, until the trench excavations in 2020 when the earliest layers were investigated. Through this new research, which for the first time included the entire stratigraphy, 12 building/renewal phases were documented, including marl clay (“mortar”) floors, associated with fired and unfired clay walls and other structures, all of them contained within a short chronological frame of the early Neolithic. Thus, based on the observation of the stratigraphy and the preliminary assessment of the ceramic, the authors dispute the previous periodization of the site into 4 separate phases. Aside from the revision of the stratigraphy, this project had a multidisciplinary approach providing various kinds of samples for diverse bioarcheological analyses, the results of which are still awaited.

Director

  • Goce Naumov - Center for Prehistoric Research - Skopje

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