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European Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 3, 330-349 (2000)

Houses and burials at Lepenski Vir

* Ivana Radovanovic *

Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade/Department of Archaeology, University
of Durham

English^

Houses and burials recorded in the settlements of Lepenski Vir^ I and II
and burials previously ascribed to Lepenski Vir III^ are here discussed
in view of the recent analyses of archaeological^ material and
re-analyses of the field burial record from this^ site. Evidence of
pottery in situ in houses of Lepenski Vir^ I, together with the evidence
for important dietary change in^ the Lepenski Vir community in the
course of the second half^ of the seventh millennium cal BC, reinforces
the assumption,^ made by a number of scholars over several previous
decades,^ of intensive contacts between early Neolithic groups and
local^ hunter-gatherers. Burial practice throughout the seventh and^
sixth millennia cal BC at Lepenski Vir is thus reanalyzed in^ this new
light. Apart from burials unrelated to architectural^ remains, five
'types' of burial deposition are noted in relation^ to houses of
Lepenski Vir I--II, all but one having a distinct^ chronological and
spatial patterning. The inhabitants' choice^ of mode of deposition of
the deceased is always associated with^ a certain location in the
settlement, sometimes used over several^ centuries. In the course of
their history, these locations were^ often used for building a
particular house or group of houses.^ The content of such houses is also
discussed wherever it was^ possible. Duality in settlement organization
could also be recognized^ in the burial practices related to settlement
architecture.^ The attribution of the majority of burial remains to
early Neolithic^ Lepenski Vir III is here also questioned in the light
of new^ data and reinterpreted settlement sequences.^

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