Academician Vassil Nikolov was awarded with the honorary medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences “Marin Drinov on a ribbon”. The award was given by the President of the Academy Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member (Academician) of BAS during a ceremony held on November 8.
BAS is awarding Acad. Nikolov for his outstanding contribution to the development of Bulgarian archaeology, as an established authority in European prehistoric science and in connection with his 70th anniversary, announced the President of BAS.
Acad. Nikolov thanked for the high honour and this recognition of his work and stressed that he was happy to work with young people who are building and developing as scientists and his followers in archaeology.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of the BAS leadership, the Director of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Assoc. Prof. Hristo Popov, and scientists from the institute.
Vassil Nikolov has been working at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum of BAS since 1984. In 2021, he was elected academician of BAS. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (Vienna) and the Centre for Archaeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region (Halle, Germany). He is an honorary member of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria.
The sphere of scientific interests of Acad. Nikolov covers the New Stone, Stone-Copper and Early Bronze Age (6th – 3rd millennium BC) in the Bulgarian lands, Northwest Asia Minor and Southeast Europe. He has discovered and explored Europe’s earliest prehistoric salt mining and urban centre, Solnitsa near Provadia (since 2005). He has led the field studies of the settlement mounds at Karanovo Kapitan Dimitrievo and Kran, the Neolithic settlements of Slatina (Sofia), Sapareva Banya, Kovachevo, Eleshnitsa and Mursalevo, and the Neolithic pit complexes at Lyubimets and Kapitan Andreevo.
