Tatyana Mishin

Sites with long stratigraphic sequences of occupational deposits are important for the periodization of the Early Bronze Age (late 4th – 3d millennia BC) in the Balkans. Tell Yunatsite in Western Thracia (territory of modern Bulgaria) conforms to the required criteria: the stratigraphic column for the period in question comprises 16 horizons. The article analyzes six types of pottery ornamentation and their qualitative distribution in the horizons. The resulting picture allowed identifying the ornaments that can serve as chronological markers of the Early Bronze Age.