MY TRIPS AROUND EUROPE: AT THE LEPENSKI VIR ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE, EAST SERBIA - 2 LEPENSKI VIR - A MESOLITHIC SITE ON THE IRON GATES GORGE OF THE DANUBE LEPENSKI VIR IS THE NAME OF THE GREAT WHIRLPOOL IN THE MIDDLE OF DJERDAP, THE IRON GATES GORGE AND THE NEARBY HORSESHOE SHAPED SHELF BETWEEN THE RIGHT BANK OF THE DANUBE AND THE STEEP CLIFFS OF THE KORŠO HILLS LEPENSKI VIR IS A MESOLITHIC SITE - THAT MEANS MIDDLE STONE AGE, IN THIS CASE 8,000 YEARS BEFORE THE PRESENT, AFTER THE ICE HAD BEGUN TO MELT FROM THE GLACIERS WHICH COVERED SO MUCH OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE IT IS AN OPEN AIR SITE, NOT A ROCK SHELTER IT IS NOTED FOR THE TRAPEZOIDAL HOUSES WHICH HAD ONE OF THE FIRST TYPES OF CONCRETE AS THEIR FOUNDATIONS THEIR INHABITANTS ATE FISH, AUROCHS, DEER AND WATER BIRDS PROFESSOR DRAGOSLAV SREJOVIĆ EXCAVATED THE SITE OF LEPENSKI VIR THE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT WAS BUILT ON THE SUNNY RIGHT BANK OF THE DANUBE, BETWEEN THE STEEP SLOPES OF THE KORŠO HILLS AND THE SPRING HIGH WATER MARK ON THE LOW PORPHYRITIC ROCKS WHICH STRETCH DOWN TO THE RIVER PROFESSOR DRAGOSLAV SREJOVIĆ (1931 - 1996) DISCOVERED AND EXCAVATED THE SITES OF LEPENSKI VIR AND VLASAĆ PROFESSOR DRAGOSLAV SREJOVIĆ WAS BORN IN 1931 AT KRAGUJEVAC, SERBIA HE STUDIED AT BELGRADE UNIVERSITY, TAKING HIS DOCTORATE IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN 1954 HIS DOCTORAL THESIS WAS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF ‘NEOLITHIC AND ENEOLITHIC ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURINES IN YUGOSLAVIA’ AND WAS PUBLISHED IN BELGRADE IN 1964 HE BECAME AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN 1958, SENIOR LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY IN 1966 AND PROFESSOR OF THE PREHISTORY OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA IN 1970 HIS EXCAVATIONS HAVE INCLUDED SITES OF THE NEOLITHIC, BRONZE AGE AND ROMAN PERIODS OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE ARE HIS EXCAVATIONS FROM 1965 TO 1971 IN THE AREA OF THE IRON GATES (DJERDAP), WHERE HE DISCOVERED AND EXCAVATED THE SITES OF LEPENSKI VIR AND VLASAĆ - TWO KEY SETTLEMENTS FOR THE MESOLITHIC AND PROTONEOLITHIC CULTURES IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE YUGOSLAV ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS AND PUBLISHED MANY ARTICLES IN LEARNED JOURNALS ON YUGOSLAV ARCHAEOLOGY, NOTABLY ABOUT THE SITE OF LEPENSKI VIR Biljana Filipovic, Radoslav Filipovic, Initiativa Romanilor Din Serbia, Lucian Marina, Iviţa Glişici, Boian Barbuța And Nikolin Svetlana youtu.be/d1Hm-IoYW58
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:49:48 +0000
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