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One of the earliest settled farming communities of southeastern Europe, the Vinca culture dates from the 7th-5th Millennium B.C. The best known site is that of Vinca-Belo Brdo, 15 km from modern-day Belgrade, first excavated in 1908 by Miloje Vasic. The Vinca period saw the development of unprecedented levels of settlement in terms of size and density in Neolithic Europe, stretching along the Danube and into central Europe. These standing and seated figures suggest a sophisticated magical-religious culture where they were used as some sort of votive or for ritual purposes.