@inproceedings{Aslanis_2015, series={Archäologie in Eurasien 31}, title={Settlement Patterns in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age: The Case of the Prehistoric Settlement of Yunatsite, Bulgaria}, ISBN={ISBN: 978-3-7749-3972-1}, archiveLocation={Τομέας Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής Αρχαιότητας - Επιστημονικό έργο}, url={https://hdl.handle.net/10442/15065}, abstractNote={The aim of this paper is to discuss twomain problems pertaining to the settlement patterns in Chalcolithic and EarlyBronzeAge in Southeast Europe: the appearance of fortified settlements and the formation of tell settlement in Southeast Europe. For this, recent excavation data will be drawnmainlyfrom the Greek-Bulgarian excavation at Tell Yunatsite in Bulgaria. The first part of the paper o ff ers adefinition of a fortification, its necessity,its possible form and itsearliestappearance.TellYunatsiterepresents one of the variousfortified forms of Southeast Europe, consisting of an earthen wall und a ditch, which encircled the denselybuilt settlement. The second part of the paper discusses what a “ tell” (or “ toumba” or“ tepe” )isandwhenitsformation began. The settlement of Yunatsite allowsadistinction to be made between twot ypes of tells: tell-formed settlements, which began on the flat land and were fortified, and tell-founded settlements, which were established on top of abandoned Chalcolithic sites and began as alreadyelevated settlements. The first type appears mainlyduring the Chalcolithic period, but also in the beginning of EarlyBronzeAge, while the second type emerges onlyat the beginning of the Early Bronze Age.}, booktitle={Neolithic and Copper Age between the Carpathians and the Aegean Sea: Chronologies and Technologies from the 6th to the 4th Millennium BCE: International Workshop Budapest 2012}, publisher={Habelt}, author={Aslanis, Ioannis}, editor={Hansen, Svend and Raczky, Pál and Anders, Alexandra and Reingruber, AgatheEditors}, year={2015}, pages={395–402}, collection={Archäologie in Eurasien 31} }