Archaeological culture · c. 13,000–6000 BCE
Iron Gates Mesolithic (Lepenski Vir culture)
Hunter-gatherers lived for thousands of years in the Iron Gates gorge, where the Danube cuts between Serbia and Romania, living on fish, game and wild plants. Around 6300–6000 BCE, as farmers arrived from the south, sites such as Lepenski Vir gained trapezoid houses and stone sculptures.
Ancient DNA shows the two groups mixed.
See Iron Gates Mesolithic (Lepenski Vir culture) on the map in 13,000 BCE
- On the map
- 13,000–6000 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; everything comes from excavated settlements and graves along the Danube and radiocarbon dates.
Sites
- Lepenski Vir c. 9500/7200–5500 BCE (trapezoid houses c. 6300–6000 BCE)