Voronezh village Kostenki: the birthplace of the first Europ
Feb 4, 2022 7:51:59 GMT
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40 kilometers from Voronezh on the steep banks of the Don is the village of Kostenki, which scientists consider to be the ancestral home of the first Europeans. The Paleolithic finds made here call into question the previously existing concept of human settlement of the continent. They confirmed that it was from Russia that the first people came to Europe.
In 1642, the town of Kostensk was built on the banks of the Don to protect against the raids of the Crimean Tatars. It was so named because of the large number of unknown bones that came straight out of the ground. During the construction of the fleet for the Azov campaign in 1696 , Peter I learned about this place . Soldier Filimon Katasonov received an order from the tsar to go to Kostensk and investigate what these finds were.
In Peter's time, it was believed that the bones belonged to the elephants of Alexander the Great, who fought with the Scythians. Later it became clear that these were the remains of prehistoric mammoths. Since the early 20s of the twentieth century, systematic archaeological work has begun in Kostenki, which continues today by the St. Petersburg Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
More than 60 sites of primitive people who lived here 45-15 thousand years ago have been discovered on the banks of the Don in the area of the modern villages of Kostenki and Borshcheva on the territory of 10 km2. This time falls on the Paleolithic era, which lasted from the beginning of the use of stone tools by hominids - 1 million years ago until the appearance of agriculture in humans in about the 10th millennium BC. The Paleolithic occupies 99% of the time of mankind's existence.
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In 1642, the town of Kostensk was built on the banks of the Don to protect against the raids of the Crimean Tatars. It was so named because of the large number of unknown bones that came straight out of the ground. During the construction of the fleet for the Azov campaign in 1696 , Peter I learned about this place . Soldier Filimon Katasonov received an order from the tsar to go to Kostensk and investigate what these finds were.
In Peter's time, it was believed that the bones belonged to the elephants of Alexander the Great, who fought with the Scythians. Later it became clear that these were the remains of prehistoric mammoths. Since the early 20s of the twentieth century, systematic archaeological work has begun in Kostenki, which continues today by the St. Petersburg Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
More than 60 sites of primitive people who lived here 45-15 thousand years ago have been discovered on the banks of the Don in the area of the modern villages of Kostenki and Borshcheva on the territory of 10 km2. This time falls on the Paleolithic era, which lasted from the beginning of the use of stone tools by hominids - 1 million years ago until the appearance of agriculture in humans in about the 10th millennium BC. The Paleolithic occupies 99% of the time of mankind's existence.
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