OLDEST DEPICTION OF A MAN PAINTED ON CERAMICS

A professional team from NI Conservation Centre Skopje, led by the Manager archaeologist senior conservator Vera Atanasovska, during the execution of their field work activities at the archaeological site Ogradje located in the territory of the village of Orman, Skopje area, discovered a Neolithic settlement during which they came upon previously undiscovered archaeological artifacts and finds. Besides the discovery of the oldest known piece of ceramics with a painted human figure, anthropomorphic models of a Mother Goddess and anthropomorphic models of a house were found, a house foundation built of earthen mud that was applied to a lattice of trees, a furnace foundation around which there was a mill, stone and bone tools, fragments of ceramic vessels, and many other archaeological artifacts. The upper part of the body was made with one thicker vertical line, from which the arms were made, recounts archaeologist M.A. Pero Sinadinovski.