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From 1993-1995, with Ruth Tringham (UC Berkeley) and with the collaboration of the Archaeological Institute

of the Bulgarian Academy of Sceinces, I was co-Principal Investigator of the Podgoritsa Archaeological

Project (15-25 people) in northeastern Bulgaria. At Podgoritsa we investigated the extra-mural

dimensions of a late Neolithic (fifth millennium BC) tell settlement. Results documented the vacillation in

availability of landscape (for cultivation and for other uses) and the gradual rise in local water-tables, a rise

that conditioned the eventual abandonment of the settlement. Funding came from UK sources as well as from

US National Science Foundation. Project results were published in the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Relevant publication

Bailey, D.W., Tringham, R.E., Bass, J., Hamilton, M., Neumann, H., Stevanovic, M., Angelova, I. and Raduncheva, A. 1998. Expanding the dimensions of early agricultural tells: the Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria. Journal of Field Archaeology 25(4): 373-96.