The Belolesian Mesolithic settlement is an early Mesolithic settlement (X — IX millennium BC) in Ukraine in the Odessa region .
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Location
The Beloles Mesolithic settlement is located on the right bank of the Sarata River between the modern villages of Belolesye, Tatarbunarsky District, and Mikhailovka, Saratsky District, Odessa Region. The paleographic situation in the interfluve of the Danube and the Dniester, for the time the settlement existed there, is steppes with rare trees of pine, birch and alder. The settlement was discovered by A. Kremer [1] .
Affiliation
Presumably, the living community consisted of 4 families (4-6 people each) who hunted in the valley of the river. Sarata for several months. Probably, the community belonged to nomads from the Balkan-Danube region [2] [3] .
Artifacts found
Along the coast of Sarata revealed 4 light housing with foci. The discovered clothing complex consists of flint tools and remains of fauna: horse bones, rounds and saigas. Among the tools are scrapers, incisors, points, geometric microliths (segments, trapezoid, triangles - inserts of knives, sickles; arrowheads), drills and the like [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 V.N. Stanko. BILOLISSYA // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : at 10 t.: [ Ukrainian ] / editorial: V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. ; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine . - K .: Naukova Dumka , 2003 .-- T. 1: A - B. - 688 p. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0734-5 .
- ↑ On the problem of Western Mesolithic relations of the steppe Black Sea (based on materials from the Belolesye settlement) In the book: New materials on the archeology of the Northwest Black Sea Region. K., 1985.
- ↑ Stanko V.N. Early Mesolithic of the steppes of the Northern Black Sea Region. In the book: Primitive Archeology: Searches and Findings. K., 1980.
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