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.

Field notes

civilizations

Neolithic

types

Necropolis

occupied

4,600 BCE — 4,200 BCE

country

Bulgaria