A man sat on a little chair, with his head in hands, leaving the impression that is deeply thinking to something, a neolitic figure, "The thinker from Hamangia" (though inappropiate said, it is rather the Cernavoda Thinker), is only one reason of pride for the people who lives in Cernavoda, Romania.
This statue, so small an so impressive, was discovered 52 years ago and is known today as "The Hamangia Thinker" belongs to a 8.000 years old population from Dobrogea county.
A team of archaeologists led by Dumitru Berci Hill, started the digging process on Sofia hill from Cernavoda, in 1956. The process led to the discovery of "The Thinker", and its pair, the "Woman".
At that time the staue was presented to the population in an improvised exhibition at the City Hall of Cernavoda. Then, it came to Bucharest, becoming famous and known world wide.
The small statue quickly became a subject of discutions. Several books were dedicated to it, excepting the era that it belonged through the the care with which was made and through the multitude of symbols transmited from generation to generation.
Its pair, the representation of a woman that sits down with an apparently relaxed attitude, fired the discussions about the symbolism of the statue "From Hamangia".
In the year 2000 the statue was designated to be one of the ten artefacts to represent the earthly culture on this planet in an eventual meeting with populations from other planets.
