Veselinovo

Middle and Late Neolithic tell site of the Karanovo III culture in southern Bulgaria. Dated to the late 5th millennium BC, the culture marks a sharp break from the preceding Starcevo. It is contemporaneous with the early Vinca culture. The pottery is undecorated except for some cordons and is pear-shaped or cylindrical with flat bases. The beakers often have a curving handle with an upper knob.

The eponymous tell site of the Karanovo III culture, located near Jambol, eastern Bulgaria, and dated to the late 5th millennium be. Excavated by V. Mikov, the site has a five-metre stratigraphy with Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age occupation horizons. The Veselinovo culture represents an expansion from the Karanovo II phase north to the lower Danube valley, south into the Drama plain and west into the Strumica valley. It is characterized by dark burnished polypod bowls and a great variety of handled vessels. Veszto. A tell settlement site of the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age, located above the flood plain of the White Koros in Ko.Bekes in southeastern Hungary. The six-metre stratigraphy comprises four main occupation horizons I, a later Neolithic SzakalhAt occupation in which there is a long and continuous evolution of the Szakal-hdt pottery style into the Tisza-Herpaly assemblage; II, the Tisza-Herpaly levels, characterized by a rich cult assemblage in houses and intra-mural burial in wooden coffins; III, an Early Copper Age Tisza-PolgAr level, also with timber-framed houses and coffin burials; and IV, an earlier Bronze Age level with two massive destruction horizons, with no intra-mural burial.