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 Re: V zorata na Evropa i sveta - Bulgaria [re: i] |
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| Автор | l (Нерегистриран) | |
| Публикувано | 28.04.05 02:15 |
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INCISED "FEATHER" PATTERNED CERAMIC VESSEL
The decoration represents rhythmically incised lines which probably symbolize bird feathers, fish tails or ladders stretching to heaven.
Is it possible that these patterns are some kind of signs?
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MINIATURE POTTERY
It's a small vessel - the size of a hen's egg. There are some other vessels of the same type too.
Dimov's assumption is that Lake Town's inhabitants used to make miniature versions of larger vessels in order to use them as burial offerings. If this was the case, then it is indicative of a belief in an afterlife.
The miniature jar is anthropomorphous. Take a closer look at its neck and you will be able to see the face - eyes and smiling lips.
Todor Dimov: "bottle-like vessel incised with dotted decorative patterns and shallow cannelures from the necropolis at Durankulak (the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th millennium B.C.) - culture Hamangia III."
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MINIATURE POTTERY (2)
Shown below is an exquisite tiny ceramic bowl. Its colours are truthfully conveyed in the picture.
The little holes in its neck suggest it was intended for tying up.
It is as small as a jewel.
Since it was found in a tomb, it had most likely been used as a container for holding spices, essences, liquid or powder substances of supposedly sacral significance for the deceased... But it may well have been empty. It may have been a token for something else. A meaningful code valid for the journey to the world beyond. A peculiar material "hieroglyph" only appearing as a plain object.
Its size suggests that the inhabitants of Lake Town were attracted by the detail, by the supplementary, the accessory, the playful... In other words, by meaning!
Todor Dimov: "a miniature vessel with bulges from tomb No 512 of the necropolis at Durankulak (the middle of the 5th millennium B.C.) - culture Hamangia IV."
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THE HAND TOOLS
Archeological evidence shows that Lake Town's population depended on agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting and fishing for their subsistence.
They sailed the Lake and, presumably, sea waters.
Todor Dimov:
"antler harpoon from the Large Island settlement mound on the Durankulak Lake (5th millennium B.C.) - Stone-Copper Age, culture Varna."
"stone hammer from the same period"
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LIFE IN LAKE TOWN WAS HARSH
This reconstruction of tomb 550 has been made by Todor Dimov. The burial of a young man aged twenty or so dates back to the 5th millennium before Christ. The man was killed with a dull object causing a fatal injury in his right temple. He died in battle. It is in this tomb that the ritual antler axe was found.
If we agree he was slain in combat, then we can freely use our imagination to conceive the methods of waging war in the 5th millennium ... But it seems just enough to look in The Iliad.
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THE SEATED GODDESS
Take a close view of the goddess. It is not a find from the archeological site. It was discovered in the near-by area. The massive hips are prominent and it obviously represents a well-fed woman.
To my view, she is dressed in a garment similar to the tunic reconstructed by Dimov.
She is seated on her heels. What seems to be the representation of breasts, might be her arms bent forward with protruding elbows.
Is it possible that the figure has assumed a pose that can be described as a posture of meditation?
Or a posture of ritual hearing?
Todor Dimov: "seated female clay figurine from the area of the village of Cherna, Dobrich region (the beginning of the 5th millennium B.C.) - culture Hamangia III."
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A THOUSAND YEARS LATER, 400 KILOMETRES TO THE WEST
This idol dates from the beginning of the 4th millennium B.C. and was found in the ancient settlement situated by the village of Gradeshnitsa, Vratsa region.
It is similar to the idols found in Lake Town, yet, it is somewhat different.
The ornamental incisions or writing symbols seen on it are much more numerous.
The arms are only slightly marked.
The upper of the waist is tight, while the lower part grows into something like a capital.
The legs are intertwined.
The figure is more stylized.
(The photo is taken from a Catalogue of the Vratsa Museum of History, ed. by Ivan Raikinski, published in 1990)
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THE GRADESHNITSA TABLETS
The tablets date back to the 4th millennium B.C. They were found some 400 kilometres west of Lake Town. There are several dozens of them. Something is presumably written on their upper side. On their backside there seems to be a symbol resembling a sun wheel. Might this be an example of a swastika symbol? Who and when will be able to decipher these tablets?
The face of the tablet
The backside of the tablet.
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LAKE TOWN'S CURRENCY
These shells, as asserted by archeologists, were used as money.
Todor Dimov:
"bracelets made of the shells of Mediterranean Spondylus, from the necropolis at Durankulak (the end of the 6th - the beginning of the 5th millennium B.C.) - late Neolith, culture Hamangia I-III."
"Shell money" being in existence, some people had more of shells, others - less of them, and still others - none at all, as put by Ostap Bender, a pre-Computer-Age character.
What becomes of interest here is the social organization in Lake Town:
- People lived together sharing dwellings partly built of stone.
- They cultivated the land.
- They would hunt.
- They would fish.
- They would breed domestic animals.
- They would engage in trading.
- They used money.
- They worshipped their idols.
- They had a priest.
- They had a temple.
- They began using symbols that were probably the inception of a writing system.
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