Copper Age culture of the west Black Sea coast; its Varna necropolis holds the oldest known processed gold in the world.
Ended c. 4100 BC amid the wider collapse of the Balkan Copper Age tell cultures; absorbed into the Kodzhadermen-Gumelnita-Karanovo VI horizon.
Authoritative survey of Neolithic & Copper Age Europe; covers the Balkan Copper Age and the Varna necropolis.