Cro-Magnon & Neanderthal:

Upper Paleolithic Survivors in the Balkans

 

 

The research gathered in this section will demonstrate that a superior and gifted strain of Cro-Magnon Upper Paleolithic Europeans absorbed the Neanderthal population of Krapina (near Zagreb) in the middle Paleolithic then settled in Eastern Serbia and created the most advanced culture of their time as the Mesolithic drew to a close in 8000 BP. The layout of their settlements was based on mathematical formulas & even invented mortar asphalt. They were literally 3000 years ahead of their time in terms of social organization & cultural sophistication.

 

 

 

The Cro-Magnon of Eastern Serbia

 

The Neanderthals of Krapina

 

Hybridization of Cro-Magnon & Neanderthal

 

Hybrid Vigor & the Birth of Proto-Civilization in Eastern Serbia:

The Lepenski Vir-Vlasac-Padina Complex

 

The Upper Paleolithic Survivors of Old Montenegro & the Dorian Greeks

 

Social Organization & Physical type: Parallels between  Dorian Sparta & Lepenski Vir and their living descendants

 

Tracing the Migration of the Lepenski Vir people from Eastern Serbia to Old Montenegro

 

The Process of Diffusion of Upper Paleolithic Genes

to the Entire Serb Ethnos in Ottoman Period

 

The Physical & Psychological Impact of 40 Millennia of

Evolution in an Ice Age Environment

 

Living re-emergences of  Upper Paleolithic

Physical & Mental traits  in Contemporary Serbs

 

Refuting Nordicism

 

Explaining why Serbia & Montenegro have the highest % of genius in the world (according to MENSA statistics)

 

 

 

 

 

The Cro-Magnon of Eastern Serbia



 

Lepenski Vir, Vlasac & Padina are two of the most technologically advanced Mesolithic sites in Europe, located near the Djerdap Gorge in Eastern Serbia. They were discovered by Serbian Archaeologist and ex-president of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts & Sciences Dragoslav Srejovic in the 1960s. 

 

Djerdap is one of the most remarkable natural regions in Europe. This gorge, not quite a hundred kilometres long, is a world of its own, restricted but not monotonous, infinitely varied and dynamic. Within short distances, both in a vertical and a horizontal direction, soil, climate, fauna and flora quickly change; whereas the winds howl around the cliff tops covered with sparse oak or pine, at the foot of the cliffs, beside the water, grow holm-oak, finger-ferns, sycamores and hackberries.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

 

 

Eighty-four graves at Vlasac produced skeletal material from 117 individuals. Scattered finds of another 65 individuals came from all over the occupied area (Nemeskeri, 1978, pp.97-98). The general character of these remains, representing a tall (females 163.32, and males 170.53 cm), robust, Cro-Magnon-type population, with a tendency toward some gracilization as the, Mesolithic period drew to a close, (Nemeskeri and Szathmary, 1978, pp.178, 179) is consonant with the reports of the 37 individuals recovered from 30 graves at Padina (Zivanovic, S., 1974, p.153), and the 85 skeletons from Lepenski Vir (Nemeskeri, 1972, p.200). Gracilization, particularly of males, is a general trend throughout Europe in the late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Frayer, 1978).

 

B. Prinz,

Mesolithic Adaptations on the Lower Danube

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports

(1987)

 

 

 

Cro-Magnon was tall…well muscled and powerful, though not in the gross manner of Neanderthal and without the curvature of the thigh and arm bones. His skull profile closely resembles our own. The forehead is high, face broad, as is the vault and the skull, the bone thin. He lacks both heavy brow-ridge and rearward occipital bulge. The chin is well-formed and jutting.

 

Total Man

Stan Gooch

Page: 297

H.W.R

New York

1972

 

 

 

The earliest history of this area is only fragmentarily known. There are few remains of the Early Paleolithic and only from the Middle Paleolithic period onwards is it possible with any certainty to reconstruct the culture movements in the Danube Basin. Moreover, the culture of the Middle Paleolithic, characterized by cave dwellings, flint weapons of moderate size and the complete absence of any creative artistic sense, does not tally with any of the features of the Lepenski Vir culture.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

This absence of any kind of sophisticated cultural achievement is consistent with the Middle Paleolithic everywhere in Europe (Coon Origin of Races).

 

The region of the middle and lower Danube Basin is not, however, a closed geographical area. It is closely linked, by the many tributaries of the Danube, with all the other areas of central and south-eastern Europe, which means that Lepenski Vir could be an integral part of the prehistory of all that extensive area. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that the origins of the Lepenski Vir culture lie in the areas which are directly or indirectly linked to the Danube.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

We have established that Cro-Magnon was in Serb lands 8000 years ago as the Mesolithic drew to a close, and that this population came from the North down the Danube into Eastern Serbia. Whether the Mesolithic culture of the Lepenski Vir-Vlasac-Padina Complex is a continuation of the Middle Paleolithic is not known and for the purposes of this work, it is irrelevant.

 

An odd feature of the Vlasac skeletal population is the condition of the clavicles. Clavicles are typically robust for both sexes. 'It is peculiar that the robustness of the left side is more marked in both males and females.' (Nemeskeri and Szathmary, 1978, 1972). What task necessitates the heavier use of the left over the right arm for both left and right-handed people? Probably the task or tasks involved were the same for both sexes, and regularly and frequently performed ones. Fishing, typically done by both sexes, and certainly a regular and frequent activity at Vlasac, comes to mind, though there probably were other 'options' to account for this condition.

B. Prinz,

Mesolithic Adaptations on the Lower Danube

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports

(1987)

 

The condition of the left clavicles indicates that the population was left-handed.

 

An extremely interesting feature of the paintings mentioned previously is that the majority appear from internal evidence to have been executed by left-handed artists. This apparent fact has led some authorities to propose that left-handedness predominated among the peoples of those times. This may or may not be going too far, There would seem at least to be grounds for believing it to have predominated among cave artists (or priests, if such there were) and possibly among the makers of tools, too.

 

The view of the present book, nonetheless, is that classic, (pure) Neanderthaloids were predominantly left-handed, while [pure] Cro-Magnon was predominantly right-handed.

 

Total Man

Stan Gooch

Page: 331, 332

H.W.R

New York

1972

 

This research will demonstrate that the origin of the world’s first proto-Civilization of the Lepenski Vir-Vlasac-Padina complex emerged as a result of the hybrid vigor of Cro-Magnon & Neanderthal inter-breeding. But a first, a description of Cro-Magnon:

 

In the Upper Paleolithic, which began after the close of the fourth and last Glaciation, about 25,000 years ago, men of very modern aspect, known as Cro-Magnons, succeeded the Neanderthal race. The date of the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic is the first we can fix with accuracy, and its correctness can be relied on within narrow limits. The Cro-Magnon race first appears in the Aurignacian subdivision of the Upper Paleolithic. Like the Neanderthals, they were dolichocephalic, with a cranial capacity superior to the average in existing European populations...

 

It is quite astonishing to find that the predominant race in Europe 25,000 years ago, or more, was not only much taller, but had an absolute cranial capacity in excess of the average of the present population. The low cranial average of existing populations in Europe can be best explained by the presence of large numbers of individuals of inferior mentality. These defectives have been carefully preserved by modern charity, whereas in the savage state of society the backward members are allowed to perish and the race is carried on by the vigorous and not by the weaklings.

 

All historians are familiar with the phenomenon of a rise and decline in civilization such as has occurred time and again in the history of the world, but we have here in…the Cro-Magnon race the earliest example of […] a very superior race….

 

(…)The existence at these early dates of a very high cranial capacity and its later decline shows that there is no upward tendency inherent in mankind of sufficient strength to overcome obstacles placed in its way by stupid social customs.

 

While the skull of the Cro-Magnon was long, the cheek bones were very broad, and this combination of broad face with long skull constitutes a peculiar disharmonic type which occurs to-day only among the very highly specialized Esquimaux [Eskimo/Inuit] and one or two other unimportant groups. Skulls of this particular type, however, are found in small numbers among existing populations in central France, precisely in the district where the fossil remains of this race were first discovered. These isolated Frenchmen probably represent the last lingering remnant of this splendid race of hunting savages.

 

The Passing of the Great Race

            Madison Grant

            Page: 50-52

            Scribner’s & Sons

New York

1916

 

The “disappearance” of Neanderthal is more assimilation, as we shall see later on.

 

 

 

The Neanderthals of Krapina

 

 

 

…the Krapina finds from Yugoslavia, formerly assigned to the Third Interglacial, have been reassigned to the…Upper Wurm Glaciation. This makes them part of the Upper Paleolithic cranial assemblage, which makes excellent sense because in certain respects they resemble very closely the modern population of their region…they are mostly brachycephalic.

 

In Europe the phenomenon of brachycephaly goes back at least 30 000 years, as shown by the Crania found in Krapina.

 

The Living Races of Man

Carleton Stevens Coon

Chapter 3: Europe & West Asia

Page: 52, 63

Knopf, New York

1967

 

 

 

Because of the large brow ridges, the low vault, the small mastoids, and a few other archaic features, one cannot say that the Krapina skulls are fully modern. But they are fully Sapiens and resemble in an over-all way, particularly in that they are broad-headed, some of the living European peoples. These skulls are different from others we have studied. Within the Caucasoid framework, the pre-Wurm population of Europe showed as much regional variation in cranial vault and upper facial features as the modern European population does.

 

The Origin of Races

Carleton Stevens Coon

Chapter 11: The Caucasoids

Page: 510

Knopf, New York

1962

 

 

 

He appears to be a human of wild appearance due to his low forehead and the thick ridges over his eyes. His nose was blunt and broad and jaw more or less like a snout, protruding forward. This wild appearance was certainly enhanced by longish hair and a bearded countenance… The principal task facing pre-historical man was the gathering of food, which consisted mostly of the meat of forest animals, wild cattle, fish, plant roots and fruit. The crude tools that man took with him to hunt were…quite limited. He needed cunning and courage to grapple with the wild inhabitants of the forests who surrounded him. This man was a hunter and a traveler… These men ate their fellow tribesmen and they cracked open the hollow bones and sucked out the marrow…with animal bones, without the slightest sense of order, he tossed them around the cave.

 

Prehistoric Man from Krapina

Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger

Taken from: Neandertals

Trinkaus & Shipman

Page: 170

Knopf, New York, 1993

 

 

 

 

Hybridization of Cro-Magnon & Neanderthal

 

 

Our attention centers on the fact that all major civilization advances toward our present civilized state…are associated with mixed populations and not in particular with Cro-Magnon in his purer form. This seems to hold true whether we consider variously the emergence of Art and art forms, the establishment of the first permanent towns, the practice of farming and animal husbandry, the commencement of the Bronze Age, the development of handwriting or the rise of latter-day religion.

 

Total Man

Stan Gooch

Page: 327

H.W.R

New York

1972

 

The fossil record for Krapina is clear on the matter of hybridization of that Neanderthal  population with other groups, whose tool kits (flint & other implements) are derived from the same ones ancestral to Cro-Magnon’s tool kit (Aurignacian). The Neanderthal tool kit is called Mousterian.

 

The assembly of tools is Mousterian but Skerlj states that it included both pre-Acheulian and pre-Aurignacian elements and Brodar believes that the commonest implements are broad blades and that there are also some microliths in the lot. Even if the flints came from more than one level, the fact that implements of so many types came from one cave in Croatia occupied during the latter half of the Last Interglacial indicates a gathering of different peoples or cultural evolution or both. We need more information.

 

The Origin of Races

Carleton Stevens Coon

Chapter 11: The Caucasoids

Page: 508

Knopf, New York

1962

 

It’s interesting that Coon suggests that the Krapina Neanderthals may have been penetrated by another group. Today, we have more information to settle the question:

 

Lengyel (1978, p. 275) has analyzed the Vlasac bone for ABO blood groups, and concluded that males and females, on the basis of the ABO system, appear to be from different populations. The females at Vlasac fit right in with the Lepenski Vir Mesolithic population, whereas the percentages of AB for the males are quite distinct. Perhaps males with blood type AB were buried outside the settlement.

B. Prinz,

Mesolithic Adaptations on the Lower Danube

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports

(1987)

 

Perhaps not. The well publicized recent discoveries in Portugal confirm that hybridization between Neanderthal & Cro-Magnon did take place. This takes us back to Gooch’s thesis that the spark of civilization lay in this hybridization. Gooch observed that Upper Paleolithic cave art did not occur until these two races met, with Neanderthals “disappearing” through assimilation with Cro-Magnon..

 

Neanderthal, we believe had evolved some kind of religious belief, perhaps a form of natural magic… No buildings, no Art, nothing of this kind. The Cro-Magnon’s legacy of the first 15000 years of his occupation of Europe – is even poorer. We suspect he was first class fighter, the skeletal build alone argues this and in this connection we have noted a few scraps of legend. He may have been barbarically cruel, his pleasures & interests centering chiefly in the hunt, the combat and the kill.

 

It is indeed very tempting to argue that it was the physical, genetic crossing of these two varieties which enabled the enormous potential of each to be realized. Is it that man [in Western Europe] had to wait longer for his booster injection of Neanderthal genes?

 

Total Man

Stan Gooch

Page: 329

H.W.R

New York

1972

 

 

 

 

 

Hybrid Vigor & the Birth of Proto-Civilization in Eastern Serbia:

The Lepenski Vir-Vlasac-Padina Complex

 

 

 The Cro-Magnon / Neanderthal hybrids of Eastern Serbia were even more intelligent than their European contemporaries 8000 years ago. Other UP survivors during the Mesolithic were still wandering from one place to another living:

 

a) in caves (France, Spain, N.E Europe)

 

b) in huts built on piles of mud, rock & wood in the middle of small lakes (C. Europe)

 

C) on huts build on the mounds of dirt & garbage left over from previous temporary settlements (Scandinavia & Baltic) 

 

The Lepenski Vir created a proto-Civilization in every sense of the word.

 

It seems that nothing created in the Danube Basin before or at the time of the flowering of the Lepenski Vir culture (Early and Middle Stone Age) can explain its exceptional nature, nor are its highly expressive activities endorsed by the events that directly followed it (the beginnings of the oldest culture of the Late Stone Age, Starčevo-Körös-Cris types).

 

…within the context of the earliest Neolithic cultures in the south of the Balkan Peninsula, 'in Macedonia (Nea Nikomedeia), Thessaly (the Pre-Ceramic Neolithic of Argos) or central Greece (Elateia). Compared with Lepenski Vir the Mesolithic forms of these areas seem amorphous and extremely poor, and the earliest Neolithic forms unoriginal and monotonous. This shows that the tenor of the Lepenski Vir culture differed from that of contemporary or subsequent cultures; its roots go farther back into the past and spread well beyond the boundaries of its native district.

 

In their construction wood and various types of stone in warm red, yellow and gray tones (limestone and sandstone) were employed; these are the colors of the bare cliffs in the immediate vicinity of Lepenski Vir. Whether the houses are on level ground or on the steep slopes of the shelf, one notices that the same system of measuring the terrain, establishing the foundations and building the superstructure has always been used.

 

All the houses of the Lepenski Vir Ia phase are built of similar materials and in the same manner. They have an identical internal construction and similar proportions. They differ only in size.

 

This appears to be the world's first use of lime mortar, in this case as a floor covering, not as mortar between bricks or stones.

The earliest other known use of lime mortar dates to about 4000 BC in Ancient Egypt. Thus, the Lepenski Vir Ia culture's use (~5600 BC) of lime mortar predates the Egyptian use by 1600 years.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

The architecture of Lepinski Vir Ia (and later) is also repeated at Padina B, Vlasac and at Stubica. This must have been under the guidance of a very forceful and gifted leader (or leaders). Only such a leader could have seen the potential of the sites which had limited space which needed to be used in the most efficient way possible, and a way of adapting to them which could have allowed the villagers to make the most of the sites and the resources available.

 

That this method and tradition continued for so long and in more than one place is a tribute to this organizational and building design genius. It is also apparent that the people of the sites had the same or similar religions and world views, and that there was communication between the peoples of the sites. It would seem that Lepenski Vir Ia was the first of the sites thus to be utilized in this way, but Padina and Vlasac followed the tradition soon after. Not much is known about Stubica, except that the architecture was similar.

 

A casual glance at the ground-plan of the houses is enough to convince one that their shape has no model in nature. Indeed, it may be concluded, by a careful comparison of all the foundations and measurements, that the builders of Lepenski Vir possessed a quite definite mathematical knowledge which they employed skillfully in measuring the terrain and fixing the proportions, shapes and dimensions of the houses.

 

Lepenski Vir la covered an area of 1 500 square meters, and this had to serve its hundred or so inhabitants. The living space available to them had therefore to be so organized as to avoid a feeling of restriction. They were thus compelled when building their settlement to economize on space like misers, to profit by every detail and every free corner; at the same time taking care that their freedom of movement was not unduly restricted.

 

By skilful arrangement of the houses an open space was formed in the center of the settlement and numerous means of communication were created which showed how adaptable was the terrain, gave depth to the whole area, and controlled the position and size of all the houses

 

The basic building plan for the architecture of the new settlement was defined during the first building phase, Lepenski Vir Ia. Methods of house building, the design and arrangement of the houses, as also the main communication paths, were similar in all five levels. Not a single change was made subsequently in the basic structure of the nucleus of the settlement. This was not a sign of creative stultification but the acceptance of the values expressed at the time of the initial cultural upsurge and subsequently confirmed by tradition.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

 

Srejovic puts the Lepenski Vir people in perspective:

 

The forms of a highly developed culture, a permanent settlement with an architectural plan which presupposes complex socio-economic relationships, and examples of monumental art certainly imbued with a profound religious sense, have been found at Lepenski Vir, initially a featureless area affording no sort of expectation of discoveries, nor of any tradition of earlier settlement. On the other hand, all the essential forms of the Lepenski Vir culture differ completely from the general cultural-historical pattern of the early prehistory of Europe.

 

Europe's first monumental sculpture: new discoveries at Lepenski Vir

Dragoslav Srejović

Stein & Day

1972

 

These gifted geniuses skipped a whole stage in the evolution of human society by founding highly organized permanent settlements (Lepenski Vir, Vlasac & Padina & Stubica)  without the prerequisite of agriculture requiring them to build permanent settlements out of which civilization was eventually created. They even refused to participate in the Vinca Culture, the earliest Neolithic culture north of Greece from which Mediterranean farmers spread out to colonize all of Europe (Bibby Testimony of the Spade page: 275) or take up agriculture.

 

Physical Anthropology indicates that they did assimilate into Vinca’s successor, the Starcevo culture:


Human skeletal material offers direct evidence relevant to the question of population replacement or continuity from the Mesolithic to Neolithic periods.

Only Lepenski Vir provided early Neolithic skeletal material which could be compared with the abundant earlier data. Starcevo skeletons are 'moderately tall' and tend to be more gracile than skeletons from the preceding period, although gracile and robust variants are described for this period (Nemeskeri, 1972, p.201, p.202).

 

B. Prinz,

Mesolithic Adaptations on the Lower Danube

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports

(1987)

 

It should be noted that the cultures of the Lepenski Vir Complex, Vinca & Starcevo are within a few days’ walking distance of one another. The refusal of the Lepenski Vir people to take up agriculture is noteworthy because it takes into the next phase of this research where we find their descendants, the Serbs of Old Montenegro, who besides other similarities to the Lepenski Vir people, also traditionally disdain agriculture & relegate it to women.

 

 

 

 

The Upper Paleolithic Survivors of

Old Montenegro & the Dorian Greeks

 

 

The facial index, in view of the great size of both component diameters, lies at 89 in Old Montenegro, on the border between mesoprosopy and leptoprosopy; it rises to 91 in Brda and the northern border tribes. The upper facial index, 53 in Old Montenegro, has a mean of 55 in the north. The nasal index is hyperleptorrhine, with tribal means ranging between 58 and 60. The widest faces, the shortest faces, and the lowest upper facial indices, as well as the widest foreheads and jaws, are concentrated in the southwest, Old Montenegro. These excesses are not typically Dinaric; they suggest only one possible relationship, and that is with the unreduced Upper Palaeolithic races.

Baldness, either partial or involving the whole crown of the head, is quite common. The eyebrows are as a rule thick, and concurrent in 80 per cent of the group. Exceptionally heavy brow ridges, rare among other Slavs, are found in about 20 per cent. The eyes are frequently deep set, with a narrow opening between the lids; three men out of four have external eye folds. A low orbit, a quite un-Dinaric character, seems frequent.

The Montenegrins, after a detailed examination, are seen to be far from typical Dinarics in many features; they are too large-bodied, too large-headed, and too broad-faced; their noses are too frequently broad and thick-tipped. They are also far too rufous for the ordinary Dinaric type.

But the Montenegrin of distinctive type, concentrated in Old Montenegro, is a very tall, large-bodied man, with a large, full-vaulted head abbreviated at the rear; his face is very broad, his jaw heavy, his brows overhanging, and his nose large and thick-tipped. It is this type that bears the rufosity in hair color, the freckling, and a tendency to light-mixed eye color. Most of the Montenegrins are intermediate between this type and a more conventional Dinaric.

The Old Montenegrin type, concentrated in the southwestern mountain fringe of Montenegro, just north of the Lake of Scutari, in the most conservative part of the kingdom culturally, and the ethnic center of the Montenegrin nation, is nothing more nor less than a local unreduced brachycephalized Upper Palaeolithic survival or reemergence, comparable to those found in northern Europe and northern Africa.

Its growth to an extreme size is a local specialization, in which selection may have played a part, as well possibly as nutritive factors associated with life on a limestone mountain. Mixture with this Borreby-like type, and a response to the same selective and environmental influences, has elevated the stature of the accompanying Dinaric factor as well. Montenegro is not, therefore, simply a Dinaric nucleus; it is a Borreby-like or Afalou-like outcropping within a Dinaric nucleus.

So far there is no evidence to prove or disprove the presence of an Upper Palaeolithic European racial strain in this region.

How this strain got to Montenegro, far from its other centers of survival, is a problem which cannot be solved without further facts.

Races of Europe

Carleton Stevens Coon

Chapter XII, Section 12

Macmillan

1939

 

The research here has provided the further facts necessary for locating the origin of Upper Paleolithic Montenegrins. This is not a feat of any kind, as the information has been lying around for decades & Coon wrote his book 25 years before the discovery of the Lepenski Vir Complex.

 

To this day, the population of Old Montenegro still exhibits a striking Upper Paleolithic physical morphology that distinguishes them even to the naked eye from both Montenergin Serbs outside of Old Montenegro & Serbs in general. It gets deeper.

 

The population of Old Montenegro also exhibits identical morphology to the Sphakiots of Crete who are known to be the purest modern descendants of the Dorian Greeks.

 

One special group, the Sphakiots, living near the western end of the south side of the island, differ from the other Cretans in a number of characters; they are very tall, with a mean stature of 175 cm., and meso- to sub-brachycephalic, with a mean cephalic index of 81.6. They have especially large heads, with a mean length of 191 mm. and breadth ci 155 mm.; their faces are longer than the others, and equally broad or broader. Morphologically Dinaric types are common among them; they may be compared with Montenegrins and the northernmost Ghegs.

 

According to the general assumption of authorities on Crete, the Sphakioti are the partial descendants of the Dorians who invaded the island at the end of the Minoan period. That some of them do resemble the traditional Spartan type is very likely.

 

One can only derive them from the north, from the region in which the larger branch of the Dinaric race was formed.

 

Races of Europe

Carleton Stevens Coon

Chapter XII, Section 14 (The Greeks)

Macmillan

1939

 

The Lepenski Vir complex is north of Old Montenegro. So Coon was correct in his speculation. 

 

The similarities between two people who are so geographically separated from each other such as are the Sphakiots & Old Montenegrins, can only be explained by the absorption of this superior strain of Upper Paleolithic strain in Eastern Serbia by the Dorian Greek Nordics on their way to invading  the Achaean Greeks.

 

This absorption resulted the hybrid-vigor necessary to lay the foundations for Sparta & Classical Greece, with the Greek Dark Age being a time when hybridization was well under way (Darlington 1969). This is reflected not only in the morphological similarity between extant Old Montenergins & Sphakiots but also in the planning & structure of Sparta & the Vinca-Vlasac-Padina complex. 

  

 

 

 

Social Organization & Physical type: Parallels between  Dorian Sparta & Lepenski Vir and their living descendants

 

 

Both Dorian Spartans & the Lepenski Vir people are aberrations compared to their contemporaries. Unlike the rest, both lived organized, settled lives & planned their future down to the smallest detail. Both Sphakiots & Montenegrins always disdained agriculture & farming, considered to be women's work. Both are hyper-masculine cultures. The faculty of organization would have been most important to Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers because their ancestors had survived the rigors of Ice Age Europe. They were ahead of their time by millennia.

 

Consider the Dorian settlements of Sparta on the one hand & Lepenski Vir on the other; both with their meticulous planning & layout, millennia ahead of their time. Consider the striking morphological similarity between Sphakiot Cretans, known to be Dorian descendants & The Old Montenegrins. It isn't the Nordic morphology of the Dorian Indo-Europeans that binds the two, it is Upper Paleolithic morphology.

 

Lepenski Vir is proof that the Mesolithic is not the ‘dark age’ of European pre-history but only a prolonged period of gestation and that the first great advance of European culture was not fertilized by outside influences but arose spontaneously from the awakening of the long-conealed energies of the Danubian culture of the Upper Paleolithic.

 

It shows that Europe did not have to borrow from the Near East in order to rise above the past & find strength for the creative future. Lepenski Vir is proof that achievement took place in Europe independently.

 

Dragoslav Srejovic

Europe’s First Monumental Sculpture

Thames & Hudson

London

Taken from: Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age, Rudgely 1999)

 

In case it is lost on the reader, Srejovic might as well be describing the achievements of the Ancient Greeks with these same words of praise because the Lepenski Vir people were as far ahead of their contemporaries as the Ancient Greeks were ahead of their contemporaries.

 

It is not a coincidence that Old Montenegrins & Sphakiot Cretans are physically and in many ways culturally identical.

 

Nor is it a coincidence that Lepenski Vir & Dorian settlements such as Sparta exhibit a social organization & urban planning superior to their contemporaries.

 

The high brain capacity of the Cro-Magnons is paralleled by that of the ancient Greeks, who in a single century gave to the world out of their small population very much more genius than all the other races of mankind have since succeeded in producing in a similar length of time. Athens between 530 and 430 B. C. had an average population of about 90,000 freemen, and yet from these small numbers there were born no less than fourteen geniuses of the very highest rank.

 

 The high brain capacity of the Cro-Magnons is paralleled by that of the ancient Greeks, who in a single century gave to the world out of their small population very much more genius than all the other races of mankind have since succeeded in producing in a similar length of time. Athens between 530 and 430 B. C. had an average population of about 90,000 freemen, and yet from these small numbers there were born no less than fourteen geniuses of the very highest rank

 

All historians are familiar with the phenomenon of a rise and decline in civilization such as has occurred time and again in the history of the world, but we have here in the disappearance of the Cro-Magnon race the earliest example of the replacement of a very superior race by an inferior one.

 

The Passing of the Great Race

            Madison Grant

            Page: 51

            Scribner’s & Sons

New York

1916 

 

The violent assimilation of the Lepenski Vir people into the Dorian tribal corpus on their way to sack Achaea evidently dispersed them southward. The survival of an Upper Paleolithic sub-racial strain centered in Old Montenegro up to our times means that this population retained its uniqueness through 8000 years of invasion by Neolithic Mediterraneans, Early Bronze Age Bell Beaker proto-Dinarics, Late Bronze Age Hallstatt Illyrian Nordics, Iron Age Roman West Mediterraneans & Alpines and finally the Nordic Slavs & Serboi of the Dark Ages. They could only have done so by living in parts of the Balkans that were least accessible to the invaders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracing the Migration of the Lepenski Vir people from Eastern Serbia to Old Montenegro

 

 

After the Dorians attacked & assimilated them, the surviving branch of the Upper Paleolithic hybrids of the Lepenski Vir Complex migrated to the inaccessible mountains of Northern Montenegro where they led an isolated, peripheral existence until Roman penetration where they played a central role in the civitate of Dioclea & partially hybridized with the Mediterranean & Alpine Romans. The invasions of the Slavs in the 6th century & the Serboi in the 7th century caused them to partially hybridize with these Nordic invaders, after which they played an important political role in the Serb states in the Middle Ages by founding the kingdom of Zeta, centered in Northern Montenegro, represented by the Serb Crnojevic dynasty.

 

The collapse of the Serbian Empire instigated by the Ottoman invaders pushed this Cro-Magnon strain south into the Cetinje Plateau a naturally protected refuge area, known as Old Montenegro, located north of the Adriatic coast, west of Lake Skadar and south of the Brda region.

 

They fought the Ottoman armies for 500 years from their isolated, natural enclave living in harmony with nature and developing a historical tradition based on the Battle of Kosovo and  made a pantheon of god-like heroes of the Serbian Empire’s nobility. Noblemen like Milos Obilic and Marko Kraljevic were viewed as living personalities with each living individual striving to attain the moral character of these men; their exploits retold in epic poetry.

 

They were highly concerned with breeding; marriages were arranged to cement alliances between clans & tribes with mates selected according to physical fitness and physical beauty, with the goal being to produce tall and robust males fit for the constant struggle against Ottoman invaders

 

The Montenegrins maintained a Serb Orthodox Christian ethno-religious identity mixed with Pagan traditions, a culture based on personal honor, revenge-killing, self-reliance and tribal loyalty. They memorized epic poetry containing thousands & thousands of lines reciting them with the accompaniment a simple, one stringed instrument (as in ancient Greece & contemporary Sphakia in Crete) and preserved their gene pool and morphology with relatively small infusions of Nordic & Mediterranean blood from either the Slavs & Serboi or the Roman legionnaires.

 

 

 

 

The Process of Diffusion of Upper Paleolithic Genes

to the Entire Serb Ethnos in Ottoman Period

 

 

As the Ottoman Empire weakened in the late 18th century, many of these Montenegrin Orthodox Serbs spread northward into the regions they formerly inhabited and even further north into Bosnia, Hercegovina, Kosovo, Serbia & eventually Vojvodina where they hybridized with the populations there and spread their superior traits to other Serbs, to the point where today, most Serbs from outside Montenegro are of Montenegrin descent through one or even both parents. Immigration to Serbia, Bosnia & Hercegovina  was heavy after 1918 and especially after WWII when the most intelligent went on to become prominent in politics. Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic & Boris Tadic are examples of Montenegrins who migrated to Serbia & Bosnia after WWII. 

 

 

 

 

The Physical & Psychological Impact of 40 Millennia of

Evolution in an Ice Age Environment

 

 

The Upper Paleolithic people of Lepenski Vir, who came down the Danube from the North, were mentally sophisticated individuals who evolved in the Ice age for 40 000 years. They had no choice but to be sophisticated. They didn’t retain higher cranial capacity when their contemporaries had lost it, for nothing. Farming has only been around for less than 8000 years and man has de-evolved in cranial capacity in that short time because the rigors of natural selection do not operate like they do in the Ice Age. In a farming community, you do not need wits or intelligence to get by. 

 

The European Cro-Magnon & Neanderthal collectively evolved for 40 000 years in an Ice Age environment where one needed clarity of mind and intelligence to face the inhospitable external environment: the cold, the darkness, the unknown, the unpredictable, the loneliness & silence of long treks across the tundra. The constant fear of death, the resourcefulness needed to find food, the courage needed to slay a mammoth. The coward and the idiot born in the Ice Age would simply be killed. Evolution in  that kind of environment conducive to a higher state of internal (the self) & external (the world) awareness or simply put: more intelligence & ability.

 

 

 

 

Living re-emergences of  Upper Paleolithic

Physical & Mental traits  in Contemporary Serbs

 

 

Re-emergences of these traits in extant populations manifest themselves in individuals who are purposeful, who have common sense & are in touch with reality, who are good communicators, confident & patient because those traits are indispensable to survival in Ice Age conditions for 40 000 years; such as a high degree of intelligence and sophisticated external and internal awareness & perception, adaptability, and plain old common sense; in other words, these traits coalesce in people with a good grasp of reality.

 

Re-emergences of Upper Paleolithic European traits manifest themselves in individuals who are creative & have a high aesthetic sense because we know that the art produced by Upper Paleolithic Europeans is extremely advanced for men of limited means. When your environment is a bare, cold wasteland you create beauty in your mind and project it into reality where and when appropriate and try to see some beauty in your struggle and victory against the odds, appreciating every victory as an affirmation of your strength and existence.

 

Upper Paleolithic European traits sometimes also manifest themselves superficially in a physical re-emergence without any mental substance. Most of the time the re-emergence manifests itself in Man mentally, without him necessarily having any UP morphology except in the case of height. Height is a pre-requisite because it is consistently correlated to head size in populations (Coon; Living Races of Man, Origin of Races). It is also observable to the naked eye. Short-stature individuals and groups have smaller heads than their taller counterparts and studies on the matter in Western countries consistently report that taller people on average make more money than shorter people.

 

Rarely, it occurs that a European who is a UP re-emergence physically, also manifests the faculties of Upper Paleolithic European mentally. Such rare men are confident, charismatic, strong-willed, well-spoken, highly intelligent & rise to excellence at whatever they do. They are almost always talented, socially conservative, creative and in other words, what Dr. Stan Gooch would call System C types (see: Total Man).

 

 

Vojislav Seselj:

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Petar Petrovic Njegos

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Slobodan Milosevic

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Radovan Karadzic:

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The eyebrows are as a rule thick, and concurrent in 80 per cent of the group. Exceptionally heavy brow ridges, rare among other Slavs, are found in about 20 per cent. The eyes are frequently deep set, with a narrow opening between the lids; three men out of four have external eye folds. A low orbit, a quite un-Dinaric character, seems frequent.

The Montenegrins…are too large-bodied, too large-headed, and too broad-faced; their noses are too frequently broad and thick-tipped. They are also far too rufous for the ordinary Dinaric type.

But the Montenegrin of distinctive type, concentrated in Old Montenegro, is a very tall, large-bodied man, with a large, full-vaulted head abbreviated at the rear; his face is very broad, his jaw heavy, his brows overhanging, and his nose large and thick-tipped. Most of the Montenegrins are intermediate between this type and a more conventional Dinaric.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Refuting Nordicism

 

The genius of Classical Greece cannot be the singular product of the Nordic contribution to the gene pool because Hellas has no equivalent, except perhaps Classical India, where the superior Upper Paleolithic hybrid strain that this research credits as being the crucial factor -  may have a Central Asian source.

 

In any case, Nordics have invaded many Mediterranean civilizations, thanks to their geographical position in relation to the horse, upon whose mastery they had an unbridgeable technological advantage over Mediterranean peoples after they invented the chariot,; hardly impressive (Childe The Aryans). The grandeur of Hellas has never been produced anywhere. Nordic Aryans never created any civilizations of their own in their homeland in S. Russia. The best of them left earliest and hybridized with the Mediterranean ruling classes. The Nordic contribution was a practicality & a martial, warrior spirit that influenced the religion & social organization of the societies they conquered on whom they imposed their diverse languages.

 

 

 

 

Explaining why Serbia & Montenegro have the highest % of genius in the world (according to MENSA statistics)

 

 

Regarding Greeks, both ancient & contemporary, it is fair to say that the Upper Paleolithic strain absorbed into their population perished in Philip & Alexander’s vain, self-destructive and narcissistic conquests with which Greeks and the rest of the world has been senselessly, naively and falsely enamored ever since. This is why Greece did not have the same IQ score as Serbia & Montenegro, where the Upper Paleolithic population survived into modern times, with their traits diffusing into the general population via migration in recent times.

 

This Croatian on-line magazine reported the following:

 

 

www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=298999

U ZEMLJI naših istočnih susjeda tijekom protekle je godine čak 470 od 1097 prijavljenih ljudi ispunilo uvjete za učlanjenje u Mensu, međunarodnu udrugu inteligentnih pojedinaca.

Postotak građana koji su lani na testovima tog udruženja zabilježili IQ veći od 148 po Caletovoj skali do 156, iznosi 43 posto. Po tome je Srbija i Crna Gora na visokom trećem mjestu među stotinjak zemalja u kojima Mensa ima svoje podružnice, javlja srpski B92.

Zanimljivo je kako su među tri prvoplasirane nacije osim Srba i Crnogoraca ušli još jedni naši susjedi. Slovenci su zauzeli drugo mjesto, odmah iza najinteligentnijih Izraelaca.

Kako piše B92, u Mensi SiCG podjednak uspjeh postigli su studenti, doktori znanosti, mesari, policajci, liječnici, vojna lica, arhitekti i inženjeri...

Translation:

www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=298999

Last year in the country of our eastern neighbours, 470 out of 1090 respondents filled out papers for membership to Mensa, an international organization of the most inteligent individuals.

The % of citizens who had an IQ greater than 148 out of 156 was 43%. Thus Serbia and Montengro crored third place out of the 100 countries whehere MENSA has offices, according to B92.

Other than Serbia and Montenegro, it's interesting that out of the top three scoring nations we find our other neighbour. Slovenians took 2nd place behind the most intelligent ones, the Israelis.

B92 writes that students, doctors, meat-packers, policemen, architectsm engineers all achieved equal success

 

 

Actually, it's Serbs who are the most intelligent. Much more than Jews. The most intelligent Serbs live outside of Serbia. More than three million of them. A Brain-Drain from within was fed by economic terrorism from without. If the feeble-minded barbarians hadn't destroyed our economy through sanctions and war & caused a brain-drain, we would have the kind of living standard that Slovenia and Israel have and a greater % of genius greater than either country.

 

 

This is the legacy of the Lepenski Vir people.

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