Anatolia and Thrace

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Abstract
Intimate Connections Between Anatolia and Thrace had been suspected ever since Kazarov published his finds from Kyrillovo. Despite the peculiarities in their handles, the vases and bronzes look so distinctively Anatolian that Thrace seemed just a provincial extension of the Early Troadic Bronze Age culture as known in 1914. Since 1945 new finds from Mikhalits, taken in conjunction with Mikov's discoveries at Karanovo and those of Hamit Zubeyr Koşay, at Büyük Güllücek have put these relations in an entirely new light. Mikhalits, near Svilingrad where a depas amphikypellon had been found in 1941, lies so close to the present frontier that fuller excavation since 1945 has been impracticable. But the observations made in that year alone are sufficiently illuminating. The site is not a tell, but occupies the crest of a natural ridge, and was defended by a stone wall enclosing an area of 80–90 m. in diameter.