Small vessels with handles from the end of the early bronze age at tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria)

The paper publishes materials from the multilayer settlement Tell Yunatsite (Bulgaria). It is a series of vessels from the EBA layers, namely, cups of the Yunatsite type with a round bottom and cups with a flattened round bottom (the western variant of the cups of the Sveti Kirilovo type). The stratigraphic distribution of the Yunatsite type cups and the cups with a flattened round bottom suggests that they were common during EBA III, the latter were not documented at Tell Yunatsite until the early stage of EBA III (Fig. 5). The available radiocarbon dates put this stage around the second half of the III millennium BC. The correlation of the types of the cups which are chronological markers at the sites with the extended stratigraphic column made it possible to correlate the Tell Yunatsite cups with contemporary horizons at the tells in eastern and western Thrace and determine contacts with the Aegean and Anatolian region.