Dragoslav Srejović ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Срејовић; Kragujevac, 8 October 1931 – 29 November 1996) was a

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n archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian. He was the main contributor to the exploration of the

Lepenski Vir Lepenski Vir ( sr-cyr, Лепенски Вир, "Lepena Whirlpool"), located in Serbia, is an important archaeological site of the Mesolithic Iron Gates culture of the Balkans. The latest radiocarbon and AMS data suggests that the chronology of L ...

archaeological site.

Biography

Srejović had a broad range of interests, and his fields of research range from

paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

and

mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...

sites in Yugoslavia, through the late Roman period, to Greco-Roman mythology. He was a prolific author, having published more than 200 papers, over 20 monographs and a dozen guides and catalogs. He became a subscribing member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

in 1974, and a regular member in 1983, and later its vice-president. Srejović was recipient of the

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of City of Belgrade (1977) for his work on Lepenski Vir excavations, as well as the 7th July Award of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. He was one of the very few openly gay public personalities in Serbia.Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, ed. by George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman, p. 1479 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1135578710

Selected works

;Monographies * ''Lepenski vir; Nova praistorijska kultura u Podunavlju'' (Lepenski Vir: A New Prehistoric Culture in the Danube Valley) (Belgrade, SKZ 1969); * ''Europe's First Monumental Sculpture. New Discoveries at Lepenski Vir'' (London 1972); * ''Umetnost Lepenskog vira'' (The Art of Lepenski Vir) (Belgrade 1983), with Ljubinka Babović * ''Rečnik grčke i rimske mitologije'' (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology) (SKZ Beograd 1979), with Aleksandrina Cermanović–Kuzmanović; * * ''Leksikon religija i mitova drevne Evrope'' (Lexicon of Religions and Myths of Ancient Europe) (Savremena administracija, Beograd, 1992), with Aleksandrina Cermanović–Kuzmanović; * ''Carski mauzoleji i konsekrativni spomenici u Feliks Romuliani'' (Imperial Mausoleums and Consecrative Monuments in

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) (Belgrade 1994), with Čedomir Vasić

References

1931 births 1996 deaths Writers from Kragujevac Serbian archaeologists 20th-century Serbian historians Yugoslav archaeologists Cultural anthropologists Serbian LGBT people Gay men University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 20th-century archaeologists 20th-century LGBT people {{cultural-anthropologist-stub