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Earlier Digs at Schela Cladovei
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http://www.cimec.ro/livingpast/nr1/boroneant/mesolithic.htm#schela
The Schela Cladovei-Lepenski Vir cultural complex
This last stage had a sudden development, though in steps. It occurred when changing from the Clisurean complexes, based mainly on flint exploitation from the local resources, to a lessening of this activity and a change to an intensive processing of the river boulders and other types of rocks. Predilection was shown to locally exploited quartz ( seldom obtain from natural deposits, more often from the rocks available on the beach). Climatically, the process corresponds to the Boreal and beginning of Atlantic period, after the end of the Pinus phase. During this stage the landscape suffered a great change. It involved the warming of the climate, the stabilisation of the Danube course( first at a lower level than the present one, then reaching the one existent nowadays). Man gradually descended from the caves situated on the upper levels of the karst (Climente II cave (178m) to Climente I cave (62m) and the shelter under the rock at Cuina Turcului (60m)). During the period of time when Schela Cladovei-Lepenski Vir culture flourished, the Danube had the lowest level. It has only happened twice since, between III-I centuries BC and IX-XIII centuries AD.
The 1982 - 1985 digs
View 1 of the Schela Cladovei site looking downstream
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View 2 of the Schela Cladovei site looking downstream
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View 3 of the Schela Cladovei site looking upstream
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View 3 of the Schela Cladovei site looking upstream
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Fireplace at the Schela Cladovei site, section 6. Note the flat fireplace surrounds and the burials apparently on top of the fireplaces
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Stone sculpture, possibly of a human.
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Stone used for grinding ochre, possibly for a ritual function.
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Stone sculpture, probably of a human.
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