Stig a Part of the Hungarian Plains in Southern Serbia

The northern part of Serbia, Vojvodina, is mainly aseries of sites which indicate the high density of
flatland, while the central and southern regions aresettlements in the region, which belonged to the legion
mountainous. The plains are in the Great Hungarian12 Claudiae and the district of Viminacium. In the
Plain and its brims: Ma?va, Posavina, Pomoravlje, Stigcontext of the other finds this sarcophagus constitutes
and Negotinska krajina in southern Serbia. Serbia hasa significant addition to the future geographical and
55 per cent of arable land, while 27 per cent isdemograpic history of the wider territory of
covered by forests. There are 15 mountain peaksViminacium. The type of burial and the remains of
reaching over 2,000 metres, the highest being ?eravicaluxurious textiles decorated with golden thread indicate
on Prokletije.that the dead person was of high social status and of
(2.656 m).eastern origin. In the absence of more reliable data, the
Klicevac in Stigburial has been dated to between the 3rd and first half
Klicevac is situated in the Balkan peninsula,of the 4th century. The discovery of the sarcophagus,
approximately 100 Km east of the capital of Serbia,close to the route from Viminacium to Lederata, in the
Belgrade. This village of 1500 inhabitants is on thelight of new archaeological and topographic information,
shores of the river Danube, a second largestindicates that the area was densely populated and
European river. It is distant from 24km of the town ofthat it had a very important place in the economic and
Pozarevac. The town of Kostolac situated nearcultural life of Viminacium.
Viminacium, the former capital of the roman provinceSearch for source rocks of the crude oils of the
of upper Moesia is 8km away and the fortress ofDrmno depression (southern part of the Pannonian
Ram, build by the Turkish at the end of 15th century, isBasin, Serbia).
9km away from here.Then we can move to another aspect making Stig in
Klicevac is the birthplace of the voïvode MilenkoSerbia known. Within the science of oil and gas this
Stojkovic, hero of the first Serb insurrection against theregion pops up again.
Turkish occupant.In oil and gas exploration studies, the identification of
Klicevac is known for archeological sites of prehistoric,petroleum source rocks andtheir relationship with oils
Roman and old-Slavic time. One of the great finds isoriginating from known oil fields (organic
the idol of Klicevac, it is a clay statuette found in 1881geochemicaloil-source rock correlation) is one of the
and dating from the age of bronze (1500 to 1000most important tasks. Following the petroleumsystem
years before our time).concept of Magoon andDow,1 exploration of any oil
At the end of 2003 in the northern parts of Stig atfield should not be consideredcomplete until the location
Brest, in the village of Re?ica, during a farmersof source rocks has been identified and the source
activities, a stone sarcophagus was discovered. It wasrock potentialhas been estimated.
forced open and probably robbed on discovery. TheThe exact location of the source rocks of the oils
curator of the National Museum in Požarevacobtained from the Drmno depressionoil fields (the
conducted a salvage investigation after this and founddistrict of Stig in Serbia), is not yet fully and reliably
a bronze coin of Antonia Pia and the remains of aknown.
textile containing golden thread. The investigation of theHence, this locality has not yet been completely
region from Viminacium to Lederata, with the emphasisexplored.
on the villages of Re?ica and Kli?evac, has revealed a