Greetings,
Today’s blog will likely be more pictures than description, as most of the day was spent sailing.
We did start the day docking in Serbia at a little town, where we were bussed several miles to a cool, Danube side archeological site.
The site was called Lepenski Vir, and it was a site that was accidentally found while doing general archaeological survey of area that was soon to be flooded with construction of a new hydro-electric dam and thus the raising of the elevation of the Danube. (More on this dam later.)
Anyway… the dig was in the 1960’s by a famous Serbian archaeologist, and several of his compatriots (mainly female ironically… the video we saw was described as almost a 60’s beach movie in look).
The video crew was on-site doing a general documentary on the archaeological peeps (they weren’t expecting a huge find), so all of the amazing finds were recorded on video (it really was a cool old video they’d put together).
They were surveying / excavating in an old farmer’s field near the Danube (of that time), when they first stumbled on signs of human habitation. Rather than hash out all of what they found… we’ll just tell you that they found the oldest civilization in Europe, from around 7,000 BC to it’s peak around 5,300 BC (i.e. that lasted several THOUSAND years), with no signs of ever fighting or other violence, and with remains abnormal from typical European remains (i.e. taller than normal, healthier, etc.).
If that’s enough of a teaser for you that you’re interested in more, google it (or visit: discoversoutheastserbia.co