Maria Gurova
Biographic Data
| ID | 660498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Gurova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurova |
| SIGNATURE | GUROVA M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Petrographic and geochemical analyses of flint raw materials from Bulgaria
Mishin Kamik Cave
Bulgaria encompasses most of the Balkan migratory corridor (part of the so-called Danubian corridor) which facilitated the dispersal of mammals and Homo populations into and out of Europe. In spite of the scarcity of human fossil remains, the rich evidence of more than 20 Palaeolithic sites in Bulgaria suggests long-term human presence and various activities. Northwestern Bulgaria is known for the massive karstic formations in the area around the…
Investigating the provenance of obsidian from Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Bulgaria
Portable energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has become a widely used tool for the chemical characterisation (source identification) of obsidian found in archaeological contexts. While laboratory techniques such as neutron activation analysis (NAA) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) can analyse more elements and have lower detection limits, pXRF can provide quantitative data of sufficient resolution to be able to ma…
The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses
Magura Cave, Bulgaria
Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology
Experimental Archaeology as an hypothesis contrast method, focusing on technological studies, is not new in archaeological research procedures. Since the early 1970s, as a consequence of the application of châine-operatoire/reduction sequence concepts within the framework of Palaeoethnological investigation, or within the actualistics studies highly developed in the framework of Processual Archaeology, the experimentation and utilization of artef…
Chert raw materials and artefacts from NE Bulgaria
In the present study two analytical methods are applied to characterize chert artefacts and raw materials from northeastern Bulgaria (Ludogorie region): petrographic observation and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry). Archaeological samples from 12 Chalcolithic sites from Bulgaria are analyzed as well as raw material from 6 outcrops in northeastern Bulgaria are identified and documented during a survey in 2012 when many …
Late Mesolithic lifeways and deathways at Vlasac (Serbia)
Recent excavations (2006–2009) at the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges region of the north-central Balkans have focused on a reevaluation of previous conclusions about site formation processes, stratigraphy, chronology, and the nature of occupation. Mostly Late Mesolithic remains had been encountered in the preserved portion of the site, but, for the first time, in a restricted zone of the excavated area, vertical stratifi…
Pre-Neolithic’ in Southeast Europe
This paper discusses why large areas of the central and northern Balkans lack evidence of Mesolithic settlement and what implications this holds for future research into the Neolithization of the region. A marked shift in site distribution patterns between Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic is interpreted as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource availability. It is suggested that some important questions of the pattern, proc…
Tribulum Inserts in Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspective
This paper discusses in a comparative perspective the problem of a particular type of prehistoric instrument — the tribulum or threshing sledge — within the southeastern Balkans and the southern Levant. Evidence of ethnographic tribula (and particularly their inserts) from Bulgaria is presented as well as a series of archaeological tribulum inserts identified by the author from a Late Chalcolithic site in Bulgarian Thrace. In this cognitive appro…
Outillages lithiques préhistoriques de Bulgarie et la question du fossile directeur
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Towards an understanding of Early Neolithic populations
The evidence from the Bulgarian Early Neolithic chipped stone industry reveals coherent and diagnostic flint assemblages for the vast Karanovo I and II cultural area, characterized by high quality yellow-honey coloured flint, quite long and regular blades, with (bi)lateral semi-abrupt high retouch and sometimes with rounded or pointed ends, as well as highly (re-)used sickle inserts. These assemblages possess many characteristics of so-called 'fo…
Late Mesolithic lifeways and deathways at Vlasac (Serbia)
Recent excavations (2006–2009) at the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges region of the north-central Balkans have focused on a reevaluation of previous conclusions about site formation processes, stratigraphy, chronology, and the nature of occupation. Mostly Late Mesolithic remains had been encountered in the preserved portion of the site, but, for the first time, in a restricted zone of the excavated area, vertical stratifi…
Pre-Neolithic’ in Southeast Europe
This paper discusses why large areas of the central and northern Balkans lack evidence of Mesolithic settlement and what implications this holds for future research into the Neolithization of the region. A marked shift in site distribution patterns between Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic is interpreted as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource availability. It is suggested that some important questions of the pattern, proc…
Magura Cave, Bulgaria
Tribulum Inserts in Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspective
This paper discusses in a comparative perspective the problem of a particular type of prehistoric instrument — the tribulum or threshing sledge — within the southeastern Balkans and the southern Levant. Evidence of ethnographic tribula (and particularly their inserts) from Bulgaria is presented as well as a series of archaeological tribulum inserts identified by the author from a Late Chalcolithic site in Bulgarian Thrace. In this cognitive appro…
Towards an understanding of Early Neolithic populations
The evidence from the Bulgarian Early Neolithic chipped stone industry reveals coherent and diagnostic flint assemblages for the vast Karanovo I and II cultural area, characterized by high quality yellow-honey coloured flint, quite long and regular blades, with (bi)lateral semi-abrupt high retouch and sometimes with rounded or pointed ends, as well as highly (re-)used sickle inserts. These assemblages possess many characteristics of so-called 'fo…
Outillages lithiques préhistoriques de Bulgarie et la question du fossile directeur
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Towards an understanding of Early Neolithic populations
The evidence from the Bulgarian Early Neolithic chipped stone industry reveals coherent and diagnostic flint assemblages for the vast Karanovo I and II cultural area, characterized by high quality yellow-honey coloured flint, quite long and regular blades, with (bi)lateral semi-abrupt high retouch and sometimes with rounded or pointed ends, as well as highly (re-)used sickle inserts. These assemblages possess many characteristics of so-called 'fo…
Tribulum Inserts in Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspective
This paper discusses in a comparative perspective the problem of a particular type of prehistoric instrument — the tribulum or threshing sledge — within the southeastern Balkans and the southern Levant. Evidence of ethnographic tribula (and particularly their inserts) from Bulgaria is presented as well as a series of archaeological tribulum inserts identified by the author from a Late Chalcolithic site in Bulgarian Thrace. In this cognitive appro…
Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology
Experimental Archaeology as an hypothesis contrast method, focusing on technological studies, is not new in archaeological research procedures. Since the early 1970s, as a consequence of the application of châine-operatoire/reduction sequence concepts within the framework of Palaeoethnological investigation, or within the actualistics studies highly developed in the framework of Processual Archaeology, the experimentation and utilization of artef…
Chert raw materials and artefacts from NE Bulgaria
In the present study two analytical methods are applied to characterize chert artefacts and raw materials from northeastern Bulgaria (Ludogorie region): petrographic observation and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry). Archaeological samples from 12 Chalcolithic sites from Bulgaria are analyzed as well as raw material from 6 outcrops in northeastern Bulgaria are identified and documented during a survey in 2012 when many …
Late Mesolithic lifeways and deathways at Vlasac (Serbia)
Recent excavations (2006–2009) at the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges region of the north-central Balkans have focused on a reevaluation of previous conclusions about site formation processes, stratigraphy, chronology, and the nature of occupation. Mostly Late Mesolithic remains had been encountered in the preserved portion of the site, but, for the first time, in a restricted zone of the excavated area, vertical stratifi…
Pre-Neolithic’ in Southeast Europe
This paper discusses why large areas of the central and northern Balkans lack evidence of Mesolithic settlement and what implications this holds for future research into the Neolithization of the region. A marked shift in site distribution patterns between Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic is interpreted as a response to changing environmental conditions and resource availability. It is suggested that some important questions of the pattern, proc…
The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses
Magura Cave, Bulgaria
Investigating the provenance of obsidian from Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Bulgaria
Portable energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has become a widely used tool for the chemical characterisation (source identification) of obsidian found in archaeological contexts. While laboratory techniques such as neutron activation analysis (NAA) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) can analyse more elements and have lower detection limits, pXRF can provide quantitative data of sufficient resolution to be able to ma…
Mishin Kamik Cave
Bulgaria encompasses most of the Balkan migratory corridor (part of the so-called Danubian corridor) which facilitated the dispersal of mammals and Homo populations into and out of Europe. In spite of the scarcity of human fossil remains, the rich evidence of more than 20 Palaeolithic sites in Bulgaria suggests long-term human presence and various activities. Northwestern Bulgaria is known for the massive karstic formations in the area around the…
Petrographic and geochemical analyses of flint raw materials from Bulgaria
Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Geology (6 works) · Paleontology (5 works) · Bronze Age (4 works) · Prehistory (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Bulgarian (3 works)