Less than 15 km east of the centre of Belgrade, on the right bank of the Danube, the archaeological site of Belo Brdo in Vinča is located, where one of the largest prehistoric settlements in Europe has been discovered. As early as 1908, professor Miloje Vasić, the first educated archaeologist in Serbia, began archaeological excavations, which lasted intermittently until 1934. The research was renewed in 1978, by examining the findings from the Metal Age and the Middle Ages, when the remains of a large Serbian necropolis from the period from the 8th to the 17th century were discovered and investigated. Since 1982, special attention has been paid to the Neolithic strata.
The first settlement in Vinča was founded by the bearers of the Starčevo culture in the Middle Neolithic, and during the duration of the Vinča culture in the late Neolithic period, it experienced its full flowering. The 10 m thick cultural layer provided an abundance of materials (remains of houses, ceramic vessels, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, stone tools and weapons), so Vinča rightly became an eponymous site of the lateNeolithic culture in the Balkan-Carpathian region.
Stability of the economy and fulfilment of basic living needs left enough space for the Vinča man to engage in art, recognizable by various subjects that have artistic value even in the modern context.
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