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of its grey-black 1 vases and grotesque clay statuettes have an interest
of their own. Servia, too, has been more fortunate than other Central
European sites in being excavated under the direction of one man,
well trained in archaeology and alive to the problems involved. As
long ago as 1902, Dr. Miloje Vasic,2 Director of the Belgrade Museum,
published accounts in German and French of the " Neolithic " site
of Jablanica,3 and the " Bronze Age " site of Klicevac.4 Dr. Vasic" at
that time took a view of the matter somewhat similar to that adopted
in the present book.5 He held that Jablanica represented a real
Neolithic age, earlier in that date than the ^Egean Bronze Age, and that
KliJevac belonged to a much later stage of the same civilisation. The
undoubted resemblance to .iFgean gems6 of the pairs of animals,
heraldically grouped round a tree or pillar, that are incised on one of
Klicevac vases,7 he then regarded as due to the parallel development
of a kindred stock. Since that time, however, there has been much
fresh excavation in Servia, and it has seemed natural that the ac-
counts of them should appear primarily in the Servian language. A
new series of the Slarinar, 8 the Journal of the Servian Archa-ological
Society, has contained in its two first numbers articles by Dr. Vasic,
and he also published a separate monograph last year in Servian.1'
The language difficulty has apparently concealed the significance of
these contributions from the archaeological world, and it is not realised
that later excavations have gradually led Dr. Vasic to very different
conclusions from those he expressed in French and German five years
ago. A study of the Belgrade Museum, and a visit to Vinca, one of
the principal new sites, with Dr. Vasic himself, have helped me to
understand his views. He now holds that the so-called Neolithic
Pottery of Servia, and that of Central Europe in general, so far from
representing a culture earlier than, or even parallel to, that of the
jEgean, can be shown to be directly derived from it. The fact that
bronze was found at Klicevac, and not at Jablanica, is for him only an
1 There are traces of red (cinnabar) colouring.
2 Spelt on p. 185 11. 10, in the German way, and with a wrong initial.
3 66 pages and 133 figures in text (Braunschweig, 1902).
4 Rev. Arch, 1902, pp. 172-90.
5 See pp. 194-6.
0 See too the Lions Gate at Mycenae (p. 135).
7 Op. cit. Figs. 8 and 9, p. 179. Vasic suggested that they are
" oiseaux." Are they not more probably beasts or half human
monsters ?
8 = Antiquity.
0 (a) Starinar, New Series, vol. L Part I, 1906, pp. 1-35, 8 figs, in
text and 1 plate, (b) Ibid., Part II. 1907, pp. 1-127, 41 figs, in text,
(c) The Trojan Problem (separately published, but originally pp. 163-2S9
of vol. Ixx. of the publications of the Royal Servian Academy), 33
plates. The map of the various sites on Plate L is^useful. All three
are published at Belgrade.
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of its grey-black 1 vases and grotesque clay statuettes have an interest
of their own. Servia, too, has been more fortunate than other Central
European sites in being excavated under the direction of one man,
well trained in archaeology and alive to the problems involved. As
long ago as 1902, Dr. Miloje Vasic,2 Director of the Belgrade Museum,
published accounts in German and French of the " Neolithic " site
of Jablanica,3 and the " Bronze Age " site of Klicevac.4 Dr. Vasic" at
that time took a view of the matter somewhat similar to that adopted
in the present book.5 He held that Jablanica represented a real
Neolithic age, earlier in that date than the ^Egean Bronze Age, and that
KliJevac belonged to a much later stage of the same civilisation. The
undoubted resemblance to .iFgean gems6 of the pairs of animals,
heraldically grouped round a tree or pillar, that are incised on one of
Klicevac vases,7 he then regarded as due to the parallel development
of a kindred stock. Since that time, however, there has been much
fresh excavation in Servia, and it has seemed natural that the ac-
counts of them should appear primarily in the Servian language. A
new series of the Slarinar, 8 the Journal of the Servian Archa-ological
Society, has contained in its two first numbers articles by Dr. Vasic,
and he also published a separate monograph last year in Servian.1'
The language difficulty has apparently concealed the significance of
these contributions from the archaeological world, and it is not realised
that later excavations have gradually led Dr. Vasic to very different
conclusions from those he expressed in French and German five years
ago. A study of the Belgrade Museum, and a visit to Vinca, one of
the principal new sites, with Dr. Vasic himself, have helped me to
understand his views. He now holds that the so-called Neolithic
Pottery of Servia, and that of Central Europe in general, so far from
representing a culture earlier than, or even parallel to, that of the
jEgean, can be shown to be directly derived from it. The fact that
bronze was found at Klicevac, and not at Jablanica, is for him only an
1 There are traces of red (cinnabar) colouring.
2 Spelt on p. 185 11. 10, in the German way, and with a wrong initial.
3 66 pages and 133 figures in text (Braunschweig, 1902).
4 Rev. Arch, 1902, pp. 172-90.
5 See pp. 194-6.
0 See too the Lions Gate at Mycenae (p. 135).
7 Op. cit. Figs. 8 and 9, p. 179. Vasic suggested that they are
" oiseaux." Are they not more probably beasts or half human
monsters ?
8 = Antiquity.
0 (a) Starinar, New Series, vol. L Part I, 1906, pp. 1-35, 8 figs, in
text and 1 plate, (b) Ibid., Part II. 1907, pp. 1-127, 41 figs, in text,
(c) The Trojan Problem (separately published, but originally pp. 163-2S9
of vol. Ixx. of the publications of the Royal Servian Academy), 33
plates. The map of the various sites on Plate L is^useful. All three
are published at Belgrade.