EUROPE'S FIRST MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE: NEW DISCOVERIES AT LEPENSKI VIR.
Translated from the Serbo-Croat by Lovett F. Edwards. General Editor's Preface by Mortimer Wheeler. Pp. 216, 56 plates within pagination (8 coloured), numerous text figures, full page map, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the flaps slightly browned; faint mark to top edge of a few leaves; Thames & Hudson, London, 1972. First U.K. edition. New Aspects of Antiquity series. *Excavations carried out in the Danube Valley in the 1960s revealed that 'before the dawn of the Neolithic period, forms and ideas were developed at Lepenski Vir that gave Europe its first monumental art, and south-east Europe its first forms of organized social, economic and religious life' [wrapper blurb]. Item #170813
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