Krum Bacvarov, PhD
National Institute of Archaeology with
Museum
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2 Saborna St., BG-1000 Sofia
Tel./Fax: (00359 2) 988 24 05
E-mail: krum_bacvarov@sofianet.net
In April 2005 Krum Bacvarov, Ph.D., was an academic guest of the Salt Lake Community College and International Institute of
Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, and the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, to represent his book on the Early Neolithic
burial customs in Bulgaria in Southeast European and Anatolian contexts and some results of his new archaeological investigations in
Bulgaria
At that point Dr. Krum Bacvarov was the Secretary of the Prehistory Department at the Institute of Archaeology with Museum at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

About Krum Bacvarov (till 2005)

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Later Prehistory, Neolithic & Chalcolithic, Southeast Europe
& Anatolia, mortuary practices

EDUCATION

2002 Ph.D.
Institute of Archaeology with Museum - Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

1989-1994
M.A., B.A. Sofia University Sveti Kliment Ohridski

1983-1987
National School for Ancient Languages and Cultures Sveti Konstantin Kiril
Filosof, Sofia, Bulgaria

PARTICIPATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BULGARIA

1985-2004
Harmanli, Tell Karanovo, Tell Kapitan Dimitrievo, Pomoštica, Lyubimets,
Glufishevo, Tell Konyovo, Kostandovo, Malak Preslavec, Tell Galabovo, Slatina-Sofia, and Drama

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

▪ The Karanovo Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Their Balkan and Anatolian Context. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo, III.
Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa. Salzburg-Sofia, Phoibos-Verlag, 2000, 137-140.
▪  Settlements with intramural burials and extramural cemeteries from the Karanovo I - V periods. - In: M. Lichardus-Itten, J. Lichardus & V.
Nikolov (Hrsg.). Beiträge zu jungsteinzeitlichen Forschungen in Bulgarien. (Saarbrücker Beiträgen zum Altertumskunde, 74) Bonn, Habelt,
2002, 95-98.
▪  Frühneolitische Bestattungsbräuche in Bulgarien. - In: M. Lichardus-Itten, J. Lichardus & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Beiträge zu
jungsteinzeitlichen Forschungen in Bulgarien. (Saarbrücker Beiträgen zum Altertumskunde, 74) Bonn, Habelt, 2002, 245-270.
▪  Kleinfunde. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo II: die Ausgrabungen in O 19. Wien, Phoibos-Verlag, 2002, 119-134.
▪ Geräte. - In: S. Hiller & V. Nikolov (Hrsg.). Karanovo II: die Ausgrabungen in O 19. Wien, Phoibos-Verlag, 2002, 135-147.
▪ Neolitni pogrebalni pbredi: intramuralni grobove ot bulgarskite zemi v konteksta na Yugoiztochna Evropa i Anatolia. Sofia. Bard. 2003.
▪ The Birth of a Ritual? The burial from Pomoštica, northeast Bulgaria. - Archaeologia Bulgarica, 7, 2003, 3, 1-8.
▪ Balkanizing the Balkans: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity in Balkan Prehistory. - Archaeologia Bulgarica, 7, 2003, 1, 99-103.
▪ The Birth-Giving Pot: Neolithic jar burials in southeast Europe. - In: V. Nikolov, K. Bacvarov & P. Kalchev (eds). Prehistoric Thrace.
Proceedings of the International Symposium in Stara Zagora, 30.09 - 04.10.2003. Sofia - Stara Zagora, 2004.
Sofia-Slatina