Selevac
Village (Selo)
Selevac is located in Serbia
Selevac
Selevac
Coordinates: 44°29′43″N 20°52′25″E / 44.49528°N 20.87361°E / 44.49528; 20.87361
Country Serbia
DistrictPodunavlje District
MunicipalitySmederevska Palanka
Population
 (2002)
 • Total3,864
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Selevac (Serbian: Селевац) is a village in the municipality of Smederevska Palanka, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 3864 people.[1]

Archaeology

Archaeological locality of Staro Selo is situated in the village. Just like the neighboring locality of Medvednjak in Grčac, it belongs to the end of Neolithic and early Eneolithic, or the period 4500-3500 BC, during the developed and ending phase of the Vinča culture when the first evidence of metallurgy appeared. The culture then disappears as the population presumably migrated. Both settlements were large, spreading on 40 to 60 ha (99 to 148 acres). The most important artifacts, kept in the People's Museum in Smederevska Palanka, are the anthropomorphic figurines of high artistic and artisan value. One of the most valuable and considered unique is the one called "Woman in labor", due to its contracted position. In total, there are over 1,000 figurines, some complete, some damaged, but it is estimated that at least 3,000 of them are in personal collections. Among others, the research was done by the archaeologists from the National Museum in Belgrade, Institute for Archaeology and People's Museum in Smederevska Palanka, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University and Museo Archeologico from Udine, Italy.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9
  2. ↑ Olivera Milošević (19 November 2017), "Figurine iz palanačkih nalazišta putuju u Evropu" [Figurines from the Palanka sites travel to Europe], Politika (in Serbian), p. 14

44°29′43″N 20°52′25″E / 44.49528°N 20.87361°E / 44.49528; 20.87361


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