Studia Praehistorica 16/2022

Contents

From the Editor

The future Neolithic in the Aegean

Bur?in Erdogu

Black is always in fashion: Early production of Dark Burnished Ware in the Neolithic of Upper Thrace Atanas Tsurev

Should we consider ditch enclosures as an element of the Neolithic package?

Nikolina Nikolova

Recent fieldwork at the Neolithic site of Veluska Tumba in Pelagonia

Goce Naumov

Neolitic grinding practices at Svinjari?ka ?uka, Serbia

Laura Dietrich, Michael Brandl and Barbara Horejs

Surveying the Neolithic farmers in Aegean Thrace with digital technologies

Dushka Urem-Kotso, Kyriakos Sgouropoulos, Stavros Kotsos, Periklis Chrysaphakoglou, Maria Chrysaphi, and Despoina Skoulariki

New evidence on the Early Chalcolithic in the Lower Yantra Valley: The site of Orlovets – Papaz Cheshma, Veliko Tarnovo District

Vanya Petrova and Nadezhda Todorova

PIXE and XRF analyses of copper artifactsfrom the Gumelni?a area(Romania)

Adelina-Elena Darie, Drago?-Alexandru Mirea, Valentin Parnic and C?t?lin Laz?r

To pit the pig: The curious case of feature E63 at Tell Petko Karavelovo

Alexander Chohadzhiev, Nadezhda Karastoyanova, Maria Gurova, Alexandra Yanakieva, Paul Bacoup, and Pauline Mephane

Chronological sequence of the Early Bronze Age graves in the Pamukli Bair Barrow at Malomirovo and the Pit-Grave Culture expansion in the Middle Tundzha Valley

Stefan Alexandrov and Piotr Wtodarczak

Challenges and new directions in faunal analysis in Bulgarian prehistory: A view from the past decade

John Gorczyk