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Excavations at Starcevo...
...site of the find, at Starcevo, near Belgrade was excavated last summer by the joint archaeological expedition to central Europe from the Peabody Museum of Harvard and the University Museum of Philadelphia. With the exception of these extensive soundings, the work at other sites was primarily a matter of reconnaissance. The leaders of the party last summer, Dr. V. J. Fewkes, of the University Museum in Philadelphia, and R. W. Ehrich, of Harvard, will be in charge of the new expedition...
...major part of the fieldwork is to devoted to large scale excavations at Starcevo. This site is located upon an ancient bank of the Danube, the present course of which runs three miles to the south of it. Culture-bearing deposits were discovered here in the course of brickmaking...
...Starcevo vestiges of several prehistoric periods were observed, ranging from the early New Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages. Foundations of hut dwellings, skeletal and cremated graves, as well as quantities of ceramics, bone and stone artefacts, and a few metal objects, comprised the major finds. The Neolithic layer of the site proved to be the most important. Its yield of fine painted pottery was particularly surprising to the excavators...
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