Image: Crimea Paleontological Excavations Summer 2013 Bone and Tool (DSCF3984)

Description: The findings of excavations of Upper Paleolithic layer at settlement Buran-Kaya - a fragment of bone and remains of a tool. Excavations of Upper Paleolithic archeological layer (Gravettian cultural tradition - Cro-Magnons) at the shelter-cave site of Buran-Kaya in Bilohirsk Raion in Crimea carried out by conjoint team of Ukrainian and French archeologists in the summer of year of 2013. Ukrainian part of team was headed by Alexander Yanevich from Institute of Archeology (of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) who had revealed the caves of Buran-Kaya in 1991 and had also participated in the direction of the excavations of this site since their re-opening in the year of 2009. The excavations in the site have enabled the discovering of the oldest remains of Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs) from the extreme southeast Europe (dated by 31 900 + 240/-220 years B.C.) in conjunction with their associated cultural and paleoecological background – related human and faunal remains (with the oldest evidences of postmortem treatments of the dead by early modern humans in Europe), numeric lithic artefacts (including tools) and body ornaments from mammoth ivory securely attributed to Gravettian culture
Title: Crimea Paleontological Excavations Summer 2013 Bone and Tool (DSCF3984)
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Author: Nataliya Shestakova
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