POTTERY OF KARANOVO II. The shapes are quite differentfrom those of KaranovoI. The handlesof the two cups are particularlycharacteristic. Femalefigurineof clay. KaranovoIA. Hollow-based vases of this level are often decorated on the outside with oblique ridges, sometimes scarcely visible. Crude clay figurines representing women have also been found. In graves we found skeletons of women and children, buried in a contracted position. Remains of food consist of carbonized wheat and nuts, and bones of wild and domesticatedanimals. The second stratum (Karanovo II) is separated from the first by a dark band of earth which is hard to discern. This second cultural level is darker than the one below, containing as it does many more traces of burned dwellings. Three architectural levels could be distinguished in this layer. Although the culture of this layer is a developed form of Karanovo IB, its pottery is rather different. The houses are approximately rectangular, 6 x 7 or 7x8 meters, and their construction is identical with that of houses in the lower stratum. They usually consist of one large room and two smaller rooms. In the smallest room is the hearth, the mill and the place for food storage; the other small room served for religious pur93