Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
Yunatsite North · Pazardzhik Tell Extension
Late Chalcolithic·Karanovo VI / Gumelnița·🇧🇬 Pazardzhik Province, Yunatsite, Bulgaria
About
About Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c. 4100 BCE with burnt houses and skeletons.
Why it mattersShows Chalcolithic collapse horizon linking Bulgaria and steppe incursions.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 014100 BCE violent destruction cause
- 02Copper production scale
Theories
- 01Steppe incursion destructions
- 02Internal conflict over resources
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. 5000 BCE
- Period
- Late Chalcolithic
- Culture
- Karanovo VI / Gumelnița
- Purpose
- Fortified tell settlement
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 19th–20th century
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 5000 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
19th century / 1960s
Antiquarian notice and modern systematic excavation of Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
2000s
Conservation and publication of final reports for Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
On the ground
Structures & features
42.2500° N · 24.3200° E · 210 m · 3 mapped features
Burnt House Horizon (Level VII)
houseBurnt Chalcolithic house with in situ vessels and skeletons 4100 BCE
42.2501° N · 24.3201° ENorthern Palisade Trench
palisadePalisade trench 2 m deep marking northern fortification
42.2499° N · 24.3201° ECopper Slag Scatter
industrialCopper slag concentration indicating smelting near terrace edge
42.2502° N · 24.3199° E