Miodrag Grbić, (25 December 1901 – 30 June 1969 in

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) was a

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n archeologist and custos. He studied in

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, where he gained a Ph.D. in archeology. He published the '' Archaeologia Iugoslavica'' journal together with Nikola Vulić. Most of his works are about the

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in the

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. Grbić discovered Starčevo culture as the oldest local Neolithic culture. He was also the first to conduct research in Pločnik archeological site near Prokuplje.

References

*''Grbić, Mihailo'' in Enciklopedija srpske istoriografije, Beograd 1997 20th-century Serbian people Serbian archaeologists 1901 births 1969 deaths Yugoslav archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub