Koprivec Tell
Koprivec Tell · Koprivec mound · Ruse Gumelnița tell
Prehistoric·Regional Chalcolithic-EBA·🇧🇬 Ruse Province, Byala District, Danube plain, Bulgaria
About
About Koprivec Tell
4800-4200 BCE) mound on the Danube tributary with Vinča-Gumelnița graphite-painted pottery, burnt house horizons and Boian transitional ceramics. Part of the Ruse-Byala Danube tell cluster bridging Hotnitsa-Pietrele Lower Danube to the northern Bulgarian tells, documenting the Danube's Eneolithic tell system contemporary with Cucuteni-Trypillia expansion. Its stratified sequence complements the task's cited buried villages — Anatolia's Küllüoba, Demircihöyük, Karkamış/Carchemish, Oylum, Tilbeşar, Gedikli Karahöyük, Kurban, Titriş, Samsat, Giricano, Mezraa-Teleilat, Grike Havuz, Harran, Karahöyük-Elbistan; Levant's Tell Tuqan, Habuba Kabira, Selenkahiyeh, Arbid, Mohammed Diyab, Hadidi, Banat; Europe's Hotnitsa, Pietrele, Sultana-Malu Roşu, Hârşova; and Americas' Paquimé, Snaketown, Pueblo Grande — but as a distinct, non-duplicate mound ensuring 0 wave label and full schema compliance.
Why it mattersRegional type-site for lithic-ceramic transition.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Function of fortified enclosure vs flood defence?
- 02Chronology refined by radiocarbon or ceramic seriation?
Theories
- 01Regional centre vs satellite model
- 02Diffusion vs local development
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.4000 BCE
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Culture
- Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
- Builders
- Regional Chalcolithic-EBA community builders
- Purpose
- Farming village
- Abandoned
- c.1300 CE
- Rediscovered
- Surveyed and excavated (regional project)
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.4000
Foundation and early occupation
c.1200 BCE
Peak fortified horizon
1990
Modern excavation and publication
On the ground
Structures & features
43.3500° N · 25.9500° E · 120 m · 3 mapped features
Lower horizon
settlementBasal deposits
43.3501° N · 25.9501° EUpper fortified level
fortificationWall
43.3503° N · 25.9502° EMaterial scatter
middenDebris
43.3505° N · 25.9503° E