Iron Gates Mesolithic
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| Geographical range | Iron Gates, Danube Valley |
| Period | Mesolithic |
| Dates | 11,000–3500 BCE |
| Type site | Lepenski Vir |
| Preceded by | Epigravettian |
| Followed by | First Temperate Neolithic |
The Iron Gates Mesolithic is a Mesolithic archaeological culture, dating to between 11,000 and 3,500 years BCE, in the Iron Gates region of the Danube River, in modern Romania and Serbia.
Major sites within this archaeological complex include Lepenski Vir. Stages at this site dated at c. 6300–6000 BCE have been described as "the first city in Europe",[1] due to its permanency, organisation, as well as the sophistication of its architecture and construction techniques.[2][3] Lepenski Vir consists of one large settlement with around 10 satellite villages. Numerous piscine sculptures and peculiar architecture have been found at the site.
A red sandstone bust sculpture, found at the Iron Gates site of Lepenski Vir.
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Geoff Bailey & Penny Spikins, Mesolithic Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Hristivoje Pavlović, "Tajne Lepenskog Vira I - Prvi grad u Evropi", Politika (in Serbian), 20 August 2017
- Hristivoje Pavlović, "Tajne Lepenskog Vira IV - Zapanjujuća veština obrade kamena", Politika (in Serbian) 23 August 2017.
- Ivana Radovanović, The Iron Gates Mesolithic Ann Arbor, International Monographs in Prehistory, 1996.
- Aurelian I. Rusu, "Lepenski Vir – Schela Cladovei culture’s chronology and its interpretation", Acta Musei, VI. 1, 2011.
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