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Odartsi. Volume 2. Necropolises from the 11th century

Ludmila Doncheva-Petkova

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Year of Publication: 2005

Cover Type: Soft

Category: Archaeology

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 469

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

On the medieval settlement in the Kaleto area near the village of Odartsi, Dobrich (published in volume 1), a necropolis (No. 1) emerged in the 1030s, from which over 70 graves have been discovered. Another large necropolis (No. 2) with 535 graves appeared around the middle of the 11th century at the foot of the hill. These necropolises, with their diverse grave structures, different positions of the skeletons, orientation, pagan and Christian elements, as well as specific grave goods, reveal the spiritual and material culture of the Pechenegs who invaded our lands in the 11th century. The materials from the Odra necropolises speak of a people with a unique culture, in the process of abandoning their traditional religious and burial customs and slowly and difficultly embarking on the path of Christianisation. The work is accompanied by a catalog with rich illustrative material - photographs and graphic drawings of each grave and the materials found.

Аbout The Author

• Ludmila Doncheva-Petkova: Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova is Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Sofia. She is one of the best scholars of early medieval Bulgarian archaeology and is among the scientist of international renown. For more than 35 years she has been exploring the area on the west wall of the first Bulgarian capital Pliska, where besides the fortress facilities, she revealed complexes of buildings, glass furnaces, furnaces for melting iron, various household items, many ceramics. In Pliska she also found a remarkable triple cross - two golden and a wooden one placed in each other. This monument now proudly occupies a place among the most famous works of Byzantine art. In 1997-2001, L. Doncheva-Petkova directed a Bulgarian-German expedition in Pliska that explored the outer city near Hazar River gully. In recent years she has revealed a new complex of buildings near the western wall. For years, she has been examining early medieval monuments in Dobrogea - early Byzantine fortress town from the First Bulgarian Kingdom and two Pechenegs necropolises near the village of Odurtsi, Dobrich Region; she led and participated in the study of the largest bi-ritual necropolis in Topola, Kavarna; she revealed the earliest proto necropolis near the town of Balchik. She participated in excavations of the famous Desnobrezhno Tsimlyansko gradishte in Russia. Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, including 8 monographs. Her new book, "Medieval-enkolpion crosses from Bulgaria" is the result of more than 30 years of research and study of enkolpia. She has studied a rich and varied material, and its dating is mainly based on monuments found during excavation or analogies with the monuments of Byzantine art."