NEW FINDINGS FROM PREHISTORIC PERIOD IN WESTERN BLACK SEA REGION: HADRIANOPOLIS (KARABÜK-ESKİPAZAR) PREHISTORIC POTTERY

Abstract

Hadrianopolis was first settled during the Roman period. Many know it as an archaeological treasure trove, both for late antiquity and–more recently–pre-history. For the latter, a series of handmade red clay pots found in a pit at its necropolis proves this. Moreover, archaeologists have also uncovered walls bearing prehistoric, mortar-free stone masonry techniques that pre-date Hadrianopolis itself. Both findings hints at the existence of prior settlement, albeit brief. Hadrianopolis’s settlers most likely destroyed much of what remained upon digging up the bedrock to build necropolis’s burial pit. Nevertheless, what has survived into the present day–whilst rare-dates back at least five thousand years. Despite limited evidence, research is still on-going–meaning that we have much more to learn.