Contents

Foreword iii

Bibliography of M.Domaradzki by L. Domaradzka v

/. Settlement investigations and structures:

la. The Pistiros emporion

Jan Bouzek, Urbanisation in 1 Zofia Archibald, Pre-Roman Cities in Thrace and the notion of civic identity 9 Louisa Loukopoulou, Addendum on the inscription of Vetren: custom duties of the Odrysians 13 Lidia Domaradzka, Graeco-Thracian relations in the Upper Maritza valley (5th-4th c. B.C.) (based onepigraphic evidence) 19 Valentina Taneva, The trade contacts of Pistiros during the second half of the 4th century B.C 27 Daniela Katincarova, Die Metallerzlagerstätten im Pistirosgebiet 31 Emilia Ivanova, Investigation and conservation of finds from various materials excavated at Pistiros 37

Ib. Settlement investigations in Thrace

Stefan Alexandrov, The Earliest Mycenaean pottery imports in Bulgaria 47 Valeriu Sîrbu, Ion Niculifä, Vladimir Vanciugov, Le sud du Budgeac au Ier millénaire av. J.-C. (découvertes archéologiques et interprétations historiques) 51 Vera Kolarova, Mina Bospatchieva, The fortress walls on the Nebettepe, Plovdiv, before the establishment of Roman rule in Thrace 69 Anelia Bozkova, A pottery group with Geometric decoration from a Thracian site at Koprivlen in southwestern Bulgaria 85 Veselin Hadjiangelov, Pithoi from the archaeological site at Koprivlen 91 Tzvetana Popova, Palaeobotanical and anthropological analysis from the Koprivlen site (Gotze Delchev district) 99 Peter Delev, Christo Popov, Das antike Straßennetz im mittleren Mestagebiet 103 Bogdana Lilova, The Thracian settlement on the Tsarevets hill from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C 107

//. Burial customs:

Nedyalka Gizdova, Thracian tumuli in the Pazardzhik district 115 Totko Stoyanov, The Mal-tepe complex near Mezek 123 Diana Dimitrova, Tumular architectonic monuments from the present-day Bulgarian land (second half of the first millennium B.C.) and their relation to Thracian 129 Roumen Radev, Problems of the social structure of the communities in Thrace and Illyria reflected in the burial practices of the 6th-4th centuries B.C 139 Momchil Kuzmanov, The horse in Thracian burial rites 143

///. Cult places:

Svetlina Ganeva, An attempt at characterisation of the slabs from the town of Razlog in the cultural-religious context of the Late Bronze Age in Bulgarian Lands 147 Georgi Nekhrizov, Cult places of the in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains (end ofthe2nd-lst millennium B.C.) 153 Alexey Gotzev, Contributions to the study of the Thracian cult practices of the 1st millennium B.C. in the Western Rhodopes • 159 Milena Tonkova, Les depots d'offrandes du deuxième âge du fer dans le sanctuaire thrace de Babjak, le Rhodope Occidental 163 Venetzija Liubenova, Das Heiligtum zu ebener Erde in einem der Türme der hellenistischen Festung beim Dorfe Bosnek, Kreis Pernik 187 Darina Vulcheva, Stoyanka Dimitrova, The pit sanctuary at the village of Koprivlen 193 Sergey Buyskykh, The Beykush Sanctuary of Achilles from the Greek Colonisation Period in the Lower Bug Region 201 IV. Thracians and their neighbours: Vincent Megaw, Celts in Thrace? A reappraisal. .... 209 ,, . .,. . , Th r„its an(i the northern limits of Thracian coinage m Central Europe 215 Manusz Mielczarek, i he uem> <"iu UK, "y 6 ^ Ivan Mamzov, "Der Schlaf von " bei Thrakern und Kelten 221 Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Pontic notes (without notes)... 229 Fwenya Redina Scytho-Thracian cultural contacts in the northwestern Black Sea Littoral 231 Tatjana Samoilova, The Getae and Tyras in the Hellenistic age 239 Stmtis Papadopoulos, The island of Thasos before written sources: recent investigations into the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages 245 Boriana Ruwseva, A new interpretation of the gold treasure from Dobroudja (IGCH 796?) 253 Kosjo Zarev, Thracian coins from the Seuthopolis region recently acquired by the Historical Museum "Iskra" 259

K Round Table ''The Archaeological Map of Bulgaria":

Mieczysiaw Domaradzki, The Archaeological Map of Bulgaria 261 Georgi Nekhrizov, Carte archéologique de la Bulgarie (1994-2000) 267 Janusz Ostrowski, Polish-Bulgarian investigations in the Middle Struma Valley 269 Véronique Chankowski, Carte archéologique, archéologie des territoires: quelques exemples de prospections en Grèce 275 Florentina Manea, The Institute for Cultural Memory (CIMEC) and the National Cultural Heritage Record in Romania 279