Amazing stuff!
"A 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement has been found in Serbia. It is among largest Late Stone Age settlements found in the country.
The settlement was found near the Tamiš River in northeast Serbia’s Banat region which it shares with Hungary and Romania. The Serbian part of the Banat is flat and marshy. It includes the largest area of sandy terrain in Europe – a 300-km2 area called the Deliblato Sands which used to be part of a prehistoric desert. ...
Geophysical data, which shows ditches and other structures underground, reveals a settlement which covers an area between 11 and 13 hectares (110,000–130,000 m2). This area is equivalent to about 300 basketball courts. ...
Vinča produced symbols which may be the oldest examples of writing in the world, predating Sumerian writing by nearly 400 years. ..."
Artefacts found on the surface suggest the settlement belonged to the Vinča culture which lived during 5400–4500 BCE. These people were among the most advanced in southeastern Europe during the Neolithic (12,000–4,200 years ago).
"... "Southeast Europe is a very important region in order to answer the question how knowledge and technologies spread in early periods of human history ..."
ROOTS team discovers a 7000-year-old settlement in Serbia A field campaign provides important new insights into the Late Neolithic period in Southeastern Europe.
Results of the geophysical survey at the Jarkovac site, Serbia
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