This chapter contains a few pictures of the artifacts of the material culture of the Paleolithic people. They inhabited territories, which the Serbs would subsequently settle, and create on them their states and culture.
First people appeared in these teritories c. 40 millennia B.C. Their primer habitants were cavemen. Archeological excavations, particularly in the cave on the Jerinini hill on the spurs of Crni Vrh in the villages of Gradac and Rsovace on Vencac, help us create their lifestyle. They lived in communities which contained about fifteen people, 1-3 biological families.The way to survive was hunting and fruit gathering. They made tools of flint-stone, and some implements of bones. People that inhabited caves stretching from the Slovacko Rudogorje till Banat, made the same implements, thus is presumed that the central Balkan’s region was linked by culture and population with Banat and Transylvania from the 35th to the 25th millennia B.C.
Big climatic changes and fresh flora and fauna had vital influence on the life of pre-historic man. Extremely cold spells and extinction of animals forced him to migrate.
Systematic scientific research on 14 sites in Djerdap has shown that man had lived in this area continually from the 11th to the 5th millennia B.C. It has been established that, in a temperate climate, settlements arosed by the banks of the Danube – the Lepenski Vir (Lepen Whirl), Vlasac, Padina, Hajducka Vodenica, Ikona, Kladovska Skela and others. Better conditions, richer soil for hunting and fishing, was conducive to the population growth, which lead to the building of houses and villages.
In these settlements cult places were found, sacral objects and the first sculptures: fish-like human heads, fish, deer.
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