Ohoden–Valoga

Ohoden–Valoga preserves houses, burials and ritual evidence from the Early Neolithic. The earliest material is assigned to the end of the seventh and beginning of the sixth millennium BC. A particularly informative discovery is a clay structure excavated in 2011 containing three deer skulls with antlers. It also held a clay deer figurine with a broken head. Burials provide another perspective on the community of early farmers, with some remains presented at Vratsa Museum. Links between the structure, fertility and the sun are proposed interpretations of the ritual; the arrangement of the objects is the directly observed archaeological evidence.