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Kalin Dimitrov

Center for Underwater Archaeology, National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academemy of Sciences, Sofijski universitet Sv Kliment Ohridski

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4284-9489
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Dr. Kalin Dimitrov graduated Archaeology in Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 1992. In the same year he was appointed as maritime archaeologist in the Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Sozopol. In 2007, under the supervision of Prof. Henrieta Todorova, he defended his Doctoral thesis “Early Copper Metallurgy along the Western Coast of the Black Sea from the 5th through the early 4th Millennium BC”. Since 2010 he is employed in the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and since 2020 became it acting deputy director. In the period 2016 - 2020 he is the director of the Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Sozopol, Bulgaria.
In 2019 he was elected member of Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Since 2017, he has been leading the archaeological research of the submerged prehistoric settlements discovered in the bay in front of the mouth of the Ropotamo river and in the harbour of Sozopol.
He is teaching Archaeological documentation at the Department of Archaeology of Sofia University since 2001.
His scientific interests include the earliest golden and copper metallurgy on the Balkans, prehistoric settlement patterns along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, coastal and sea-level change.

Employment

  • Center for Underwater Archaeology Archaeologist
    2021 - Present
  • National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academemy of Sciences Chief Assistant Professor PhD
    2010 - Present

Education

  • Sofijski universitet Sv Kliment Ohridski Dr
    1992 - Present

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