Dr. Margarita Popova and Martin Hristov from the Department "History of the Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity (Prehistory - Late Antiquity)" of the NIM, have collected in one catalog the prehistoric anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculptures from the museum's collection.
Prehistoric anthropomorphic and zoomorphic plastic from the museum's collection
Archaeologists Dr. Margarita Popova and Martin Hristov from the Department "History of the Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity (Prehistory - Late Antiquity)" of the National History Museum are the authors of the first ever catalog of prehistoric anthropomorphic and zoomorphic plastic preserved in the museum's collection more since its inception in 1973.
The catalog is composed of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures and parts of such, made of clay and bone from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, originating from different parts of Bulgaria. In its significant part, the prehistoric sculpture from the museum's collection has not been published and presented to the general public until now. The present catalog includes the most representative plastic images from the collection of the National History Museum.
The predominant part of the presented prehistoric figures are of unknown whereabouts, as they entered the museum as donations or ransoms. Although these artifacts are devoid of the context of their finding, they retain their historical significance. The remaining fragments of the small sculpture in the museum fund, included in the catalog, originate from objects dating from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age on the territory of Bulgaria.
