Lepenski Vir is probably the best-known site in Serbia, a series of Mesolithic villages located on a high sandy terrace of the Danube River, on the Serbian bank of the Iron Gate Gorge. This site was the location of at least six village occupations, beginning about 6400 BC, and ending about 4900 BC. Three Phases are seen at Lepenski Vir; the first two are what's left of a complex foraging society; and Phase III represents a farming community.
Recent investigations by Dušan Boric have concentrated on the meaning of the large painted and carved boulders that form part of Lepenski Vir's landscape.
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See also: Lepenski Vir, Change and Resistance
Boric, Dušan 2005 Body Metamorphosis and Animality: Volatile Bodies and Boulder Artworks from Lepenski Vir. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15(1):35-69.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
