Science: Archaeology: Regional: Europe: Serbia and Montenegro

From Inter Press Service News, after 15 years of pause, archaeological excavations have been resumed in Serbia, an area rich with remains of ancient Roman sites along the Danube and Sava rivers.

The discovery of complex hunter-gatherers, a kind of society and economy now virtually extinct, is one of the major archaeological advances of the last two decades.

In fall 1999 on a hill southwest from the village Vleni-Dmbovia, county Dmbovia, in the Subcarpathian region of Valachia, was founded by an accident a grave which was disturbed by a treasure-hunter. A rescue excavation on the spot identified a slab-cist grave dug into a natural hilltop and later covered by an artificial mound.