International Institute of Anthropology http://www.iianthropology.org/krumbacvarov

Krum Bacvarov, Ph.D.

Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 2 Saborna St., BG-1000 Tel./Fax: (00359 2) 988 24 05 E-mail: [email protected]

In April 2005 Krum Bacvarov, Ph.D., will be an academic guest of the Salt Lake Community College and International Institute of Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, and the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, to represent his book on the Early Neolithic burial customs in in Southeast European and Anatolian contexts and some results of his new archaeological investigations in Bulgaria.

Dr. Krum Bacvarov is the Secretary of the Prehistory Department at the Institute of Archaeology with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Later Prehistory, Neolithic & Chalcolithic, Southeast Europe & Anatolia, mortuary practices

EDUCATION

2002 Ph.D. Institute of Archaeology with Museum - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

1989-1994 M.A., B.A. Sofia University Sveti Kliment Ohridski

1983-1987 National School for Ancient Languages and Cultures Sveti Konstantin Kiril Filosof, Sofia, Bulgaria

PARTICIPATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BULGARIA

1985-2004 , Tell Karanovo, Tell Kapitan Dimitrievo, Pomoštica, , Glufishevo, Tell Konyovo, Kostandovo, Malak Preslavec, Tell , Slatina-Sofia, and Drama

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

K. Bãèvarov. The Karanovo Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Their Balkan and Anatolian Context. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo, III. Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa. Salzburg-Sofia, Phoibos-Verlag, 2000, 137-140. K. Bãèvarov. Settlements with intramural burials and extramural cemeteries from the Karanovo I - V periods. - In: M. Lichardus-Itten, J. Lichardus & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Beiträge zu jungsteinzeitlichen Forschungen in Bulgarien. (Saarbrücker Beiträgen zum Altertumskunde, 74) Bonn, Habelt, 2002, 95-98. K. Bãèvarov. Frühneolitische Bestattungsbräuche in Bulgarien. - In: M. Lichardus- Itten, J. Lichardus & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Beiträge zu jungsteinzeitlichen Forschungen in Bulgarien. (Saarbrücker Beiträgen zum Altertumskunde, 74) Bonn, Habelt, 2002, 245-270. K. Bãèvarov. Kleinfunde. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo II: die Ausgrabungen in O 19. Wien, Phoibos-Verlag, 2002, 119-134. K. Bãèvarov. Geräte. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo II: die Ausgrabungen in O 19. Wien, Phoibos-Verlag, 2002, 135-147. Ê. Bãèvarov. Neolitni pogrebalni pbredi: intramuralni grobove ot bulgarskite zemi v konteksta na Yugoiztochna Evropa i Anatolia. Sofia. Bard. 2003. K. Bãèvarov. The Birth of a Ritual? The burial from Pomoštica, northeast Bulgaria. - Archaeologia Bulgarica, 7, 2003, 3, 1-8. K. Bãèvarov. Balkanizing the Balkans: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity in Balkan Prehistory. - Archaeologia Bulgarica, 7, 2003, 1, 99-103. K. Bãèvarov. The Birth-Giving Pot: Neolithic jar burials in southeast Europe. - In: V. Nikolov, K. Bãèvarov & P. Kalchev (eds). Prehistoric Thrace. Proceedings of the International Symposium in , 30.09 - 04.10.2003. Sofia - Stara Zagora, 2004.