THE EARLY BRONZE AGE AT SERVIA IN WESTERN MACEDONIA
After a long interval the site was reoccupied during the EBA, c 3000 BC. The only traces of the first phase of activity (Phase Seven) were to be found in deep V-shaped ditches cutting right through the earlier levels. Most of the finds from the fill dated to the Neolithic period, but the vegetable tempered pottery of this phase with its thick crackled slip was very distinctive. No contemporary buildings or occupation levels were found in the 1971-73 excavations but to judge by the whole vessels Heurtley found in 1930, he may have encountered some deposits in situ.
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The narrow bottom of the V-shaped EBA ditch can be seen cutting into the natural subsoil at the base of the Neolithic levels |
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A second stage is represented by the floors, yard surfaces and building levels of Phases Eight and Nine. As in the Neolithic period, the structures were of clay daubed timber and seemed to be long and rectangular. These levels contained characteristic black slipped and burnished wares, including incurving rims bowls and funnel necked jugs typical for the period, as well as a few fragments of imported sauceboats from Southern Greece. Metal finds were made for the first time in this phase together with type-artefacts for the later EBA throughout mainland Greece, such as the curious clay 'anchors'.
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Pebbles, fragments of bone and pottery strewn over the surface of an EBA yard. There was a contemporary building to the north, where the earlier Late Neolithic timber floor can be seen. |
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