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In terms of the area surrounding Lepenski Vir (localities of Starčevo, Saraorci-Jezava, Lepenski Vir, Padina, and Vlasac), it was established that the region's original population, the Hunter-Gatherers, inhabited the area for an extended time. Then, starting from c.7500 BC, a new population began to settle the Balkans and the Danube valley.
Lepenski Vir is the 11,500-year-old archaeological site with exceptionally important traces of settlements and the life of the Mesolithic and later Neolithic people. Lepenski Vir was discovered in 1967 by Dragoslav Srejović, but from 1965 to 1971 over 30 sites were discovered ranging from the Mesolithic to the Late Middle Ages.
A 2017 doctoral thesis published by University of Mainz and 2018 study published in Nature included an analysis of a large number of individuals from the Iron Gates Mesolithic (from Lepenski Vir, Ajmana, Hajdučka Vodenica, Padina, Velešnica, Vlasac in Serbia and Cuina Turcului, Icoana, Ostrovul Corbului, Schela Cladovei in Romania) dating ...
Lepenski Vir is a mesolithic archaeological site of the Iron Gates culture, near Donji Milanovac, dating to 7000 BC with the peak of culture in 5300–4800 BC. Numerous piscine sculptures and peculiar architecture are testimony to a rich social and religious life led by the inhabitants and the high cultural level of these early Europeans.
[1] [2] Archaeologists have named the Iron Gates mesolithic culture (dated circa 13,000 to 5,000 years ago) after the gorge. One of the most important archaeological sites in Serbia and Europe is Lepenski Vir, the oldest planned settlement in Europe, located on the banks of the Danube in the Iron Gate gorge. [3]
al-Shariq 2 trilith site; al-Wasit Late Bronze Age settlement and burial area; Amla/al-Fuwaydah Pre-Islamic recent period burial ground; Bandar Jissa 1 Late Iron Age cemetery; Bawshar settlement and burial area; Bimmah Early Iron Age settlement and cemetery; Hamra Kahf Late Iron Age graves; Ibra I052 Late Iron Age fortified settlement
Trescovăț (Romanian: Vârful Trescovăț; Serbian: Трескавац / Treskavac) is a peak in Romania with an elevation of 679 m (2,228 ft). Located in the Iron Gates on the left bank of the Danube river, it may have been important to the prehistoric site of Lepenski Vir located on the opposite Serbian river bank.
Monographies [2] Lepenski vir; Nova praistorijska kultura u Podunavlju (Lepenski Vir: A New Prehistoric Culture in the Danube Valley) (Belgrade, SKZ 1969); Europe's First Monumental Sculpture. New Discoveries at Lepenski Vir (London 1972); Umetnost Lepenskog vira (The Art of Lepenski Vir) (Belgrade 1983), with Ljubinka Babović