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NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT UNEARTHED NEAR STIP



Culture.

A settlement from the earliest Neolithic phase, the only of the kind in Macedonia, has been unearthed near Stip.

A team of archaeologists working in the field near the village of Krupiste has found the settlement at the Grncarica locality.

"We were lucky to find a locality that is extremely important for the archaeological science, a rare finding in our area. The field is muddy and hard to work on because of the heavy rains in the past period, and the archaeological material is not found on the surface but in lower layers," archaeologist Trajanka Jovcevska, the head of the project says.

Jovcevska adds that probing the field where the archaeological finding was found has shown that it is about the oldest settlement from the Neolithic in our country. It is a part of the first phase of Amzabegovo-Vrsnik group, which archaeologists have not been able to capture so far. Jovcevska claims that it is the reason for which this site is extremely important for the archaeological science.

"Despite poor conditions in the field we are working on, we are trying to dig out as much material as we can and through it we obtain data on connecting all the phases that are important for the Amzabegovo-Vrsnik group. We have found ceramic items that precisely define the settlement as one from the early Neolithic. Setting our probes, we have been lucky to come to a settlement and we have already entered the structure-a dwelling home with supporting walls, so we have some indication about the way houses were built,” Jovcevska says.


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