"The Mesolithic Habitation Complexes in The Balkans and Danube"
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Fig. No. 9. The Schela Cladovei-Lepenski Vir Culture, the Icoana Site.The presence of the river stones all over the Danube's strait turns into a source of inspiration for the works of art in symbiosis with the magic-religious themes of the ideology imposed by the revelations that the innitiated magi had. The data on local history dynamics provide arguments and means of expressing into a work of art the ideology of the age. 1. River stone, sugesting a bird's head. 2. River stone with a central hollow and other cuts made with a harder rock; it was probably used as a tool for executing ornaments by hammering on a previously established line.