Stone sculptures from Lepenski Vir (Serbia), a site that was the main religious centre of the entire Danube valley between 7000 and 6500 B.C. Here, more than one hundred houses have been discovered, most of which contained small shrines made by a hearth surrounded by large stone slabs. It is likely that in these places domestic cultic rituals were performed addressed to the dead or the ancestors. The anthropomorphic sculptures reproduced here show hybrid beings, with the appearance of fishes, perhaps water spirits or primordial ancestors. The objects are exhibited in the museum created on the archaeological site, at Donji Milanovac, Serbia.

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