Valac

Small hilltop settlement of the Late Vinca phase, c 3950 BC, near Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Serbia. The single occupation level has poor ceramics, but each house has a rich ritual assemblage with fired clay zoomorphic figurines known as 'centaurs'.

Small hilltop settlement of the Late VinCa phase, with a radiocarbon date of c3950 bc, located near Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, south Serbia, Yugoslavia. A single occupation level is known from a 1.2-metre stratigraphy. In contrast to the poor ceramics, each house has a rich ritual assemblage mainly consisting of fired clay zoomorphic figurines known as ‘centaurs’.