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Where in the world
Bulgaria
Varna Necropolis
Neolithic · Bulgaria
Field notes
- civilizations
- Neolithic
- types
- Necropolis
- occupied
- 4,600 BCE — 4,200 BCE
- country
- Bulgaria
The site
The Varna Necropolis is a Neolithic burial ground on the Bulgarian coast, its graves dug between about 4600 and 4200 BCE. As a place of the dead rather than the living, it offers a rare window into the funerary world of prehistoric Europe. Excavating here means reading a community through its burials, the careful arrangements of an early society laid out grave by grave.
