7000 years Tools workshop found in Bulgaria

A “huge” Tools workshop for flint tools dating back to the Late Chalcolithic, or about 4,500-4,200 years ago, has been discovered by Bulgarian archaeologists in archaeological excavations of a settlement mound near the town of Kamenovo, Razgrad District, in Northeast Bulgaria.

The flint workshop has been found somewhat unexpectedly since the archaeologists started out their digs with the aim of excavating part of a Chalcolithic necropolis.

The archaeological excavations near Kamenovo have taken place in May-June 2015. They have been led by Assoc. Prof. Yavor Boyadzhiev from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Dilen Dilov from the Razgrad Regional Museum of History, and Dimitar Chernakov from the Ruse Regional Museum of History, reports local news site Top Novini Razgrad.

The excavations have been organized and funded by the Razgrad Regional Museum of History. They covered an area of 70 square meters on a site from the Late Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper(-Stone) Age) with a single archaeological layer averaging 0.6 meters.

The archaeological layer consist of a black sediment mixed with fragments from ceramic vessels and a huge amount of flint, including nuclei for carving out flint tools, unfinished, and completed tools.

The Bulgarian archaeologists have also discovered a clay-coated ground which is where the workshop for the production of flint tools was located. For the most part, the flint material was first heated, and was then shaped into different types of tools.

Archeology in Bulgaria reports that pieces of flint, in addition to unfinished and completed tools, were found, along with fragments of pottery, in a layer of black sediment on clay-coated ground. This huge workshop is thought to have produced high-status tools found in other archaeological sites in Bulgaria. To read about a spectacular discovery from a later period in Bulgaria,

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