From the Bottom of the Sea: the Early Bronze Age Ceramics from Sozopol and Urdoviza
From the Bottom of the Sea: the Early Bronze Age Ceramics from Sozopol and Urdoviza

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the materials from the exhibitions in Kiten and Primorsko. They keep a lot of secrets. Not only the ceramics is derived from the bott om of the sea but also remained almost completely unknown to the archaeological society formore than 30 years since the discovery of the sites of Sozopol and Urdiviza. Thesematerials presented in the article are a small indicative sample from larger collections ofceramic finds from the underwater excavations of the settlements in the southern bay ofthe Urdoviza peninsula, where in the present is the town of Kiten and in the port of Sozopol, which is located between the western part of the peninsula and the island of St.Kirik. The analysis shed light on the everyday life of the people who inhabited those sitesand could give answers to questions such: where, how, when and with whom. Their distribution marks the place and borders of the settlement. As regards answering the question of dating the vessels, and with that the settlement in general, we could look at their stylistic characteristics. The technological data illuminates the pottery productionand its regional characteristics. The parallels with other sites suggest connections inwider area – to the northern and southern parts of the Black sea coast, Anatolia and the inland parts of the Upper Thrace.

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