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NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Bulgarian archaeology records that two kilns were dated between 4800 and 4600 B.C. A team of researchers from the Ruse Regional Museum of History were discovered on the Bazovets Settlement Mound near the Danube River in northeastern Bulgaria.
The two prehistoric pottery-making kilns found at the Bazovets Settlement Mound are from an
archaeological layer from 4,800 4,600 BC.
In the excavation season, 2019 one of the two almost 7,000-year-old prehistoric ovens or furnaces was first partially excavated.
In recent excavations on the Bazovets Settlement Mound, it was fully exposed and a second kiln from the same Chalcolithic facility has been found, the Ruse Regional Museum of History has announced.
The 2020 archaeological excavations at the Copper Age settlement in question took place in September and were led by archaeologist Dimitar Chernakov from the Ruse Regional Museum of History, and his deputy, archaeologist Irena Ruseva from the Svilengrad Museum of History, with archaeologists from the Dobrich Regional Museum of History and the Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius also participating.
A total of 57 archaeological artefacts from the said Early Chalcolithic period (4,800 4,600 BC) have been found during the latest excavations at the Bazovets Settlement Mound.
An aerial view of the Bazovets Settlement Mound, a 7,000-year-old prehistoric settlement in Northeast Bulgaria close
to the Danube River.
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(18,113 posts)Kid Berwyn
(17,910 posts)I believe kilns represent advanced technology, making possible cooking, as well as safe food and water storage. By extension, earthenware vessels also opened the way for metallurgy.
https://ceramics.org/about/what-are-engineered-ceramics-and-glass/brief-history-of-ceramics-and-glass