Late Neolithic Vin≠a culture site at StublineStubline is a Late Neolithic Vin≠a culture settlement near Serbia's capital Belgrade, built on an elevated slope around 4850/4800 BC. The plateau, 16ha in area, was surrounded by two watercourses. The Stubline site lies in a small micro-region, with several contemporary Late Neolithic Vin≠a culture settlements in the immediate vicinity. The first excavations at the site were carried out for one month in the late 1960s (c.f. Todorovi≤ 1967). Systematic excavations were renewed in 2006, and have continued since then on behalf of the Belgrade City Museum (c.f. Crnobrnja et al. 2009;Crnobrnja 2012).Based on the current excavation and prospection data, the Neolithic settlement is exceptionally well preserved, with more than 200 above-ground houses arranged in rows ( Fig. 1), with linear communications, open spaces, and circular ditches surrounding the settlement (Crnobrnja et al. 2009;Spasi≤ 2012a). As in many other Neolithic villages in the Central Balkans, the ground plan of the settlement at Stubline clearly illustrates settlement growth dynamics.We do not know which house was the first to be built in Stubline or who its first inhabitants were, but over time, the settlement extended, and two ditches were dug out at the far western part, either as a symbolic division of space, or in order to protect the inhabitants and their possessions (c.f. Spasi≤ 2012a.16). As time passed, the community grew, and as a result, the two ditches were filled in order to provide the additional space needed to build houses. The houses were again erected in rows, in the same direction as the earlier ones. This layout of new buildings enabled the persistence of former communications. New Stubline shows continuity with earlier organisational ideas, which, on a broader scale, reflects that the settlement narrative was an enduring, long-term process, rather than an event or point in history, a true case of longue durée.Three above-ground houses were discovered during the 2008, 2010 excavations (Crnobrnja et al. 2009Crnobrnja 2012). The excavated houses were rectangular, with exceptionally well-preserved