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Epigravettian sites of Middle Dnipro region – Archaeological Almanac, Kyiv: O. Fil’uk Pub., 2014

PRODUCTION INVENTORY OF AREA OF CULTURAL LAYER TO THE SOUTH FROM THE FIRST MEZHYRICHIAN DWELLING ... more PRODUCTION INVENTORY OF AREA OF CULTURAL LAYER TO THE SOUTH FROM THE FIRST MEZHYRICHIAN DWELLING
Upper Palaeolithic settlement Mezhyrich is well-known archaeological site excavations of which are providing since 1966 by different groups of researchers. By previous investigations on the territory of site were discovered 4 dwellings with using mammoth in the constructions and pits around each of them. At present the main attention gives to the exploring of different sections and objects connected with 1st and 2nd dwellings, such as work-shops, pits and parts of saturated cultural layer - so called "top- talische”. Among the objects that investigated last time is the section on the south of 1st dwelling - excavated in 1966 by EG. Pidoplichko - the territory of high activity connected to the entrance area of dwelling.
The article gives a characteristic of producing inventory that comes from this section and the main attention gives to flint artifacts. In the result of typological-statistic analysis the authors marks the bright difference between statistic data of materials that comes from the dwelling and from this part of “toptalische”. Assemblages from different objects of site demonstrate a certain diversity of main typological indexes that is the evidence of various kinds of activity carried out in different parts of the site.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012

Fuel management during the Paleolithic periods is an important issue to understand past human sub... more Fuel management during the Paleolithic periods is an important issue to understand past human subsistence. Numerous Palaeolithic sites relate an abundance of burnt bones in hearths and an absence or scarcity of wood charcoals, which leads studies to focus on burnt bone remains and the use of bones in hearths. Few works take into account the micro-residues of wood charcoals which can still be present in hearth areas and excavated sediments. We studied the Epigravettian site with mammoth bone dwellings of Mezhyrich (Ukraine) previously characterized by its high content of burnt bones and an "absence" of wood charcoal during the so-called mammoth steppe. The presence or absence and proportions of both wood charcoals and burnt bones were quantified in macro-, meso-and microscale sediment size fractions by an image analysis method. Our results show that excavations during field-works at Mezhyrich give only a partial image of the original anthracological record and that most charcoal materials are lost with standard archaeological and anthracological approaches. The scarcity of charcoals in this site was possibly due to an important mass reduction accentuated by the addition of bones in hearths. By applying our protocol we recovered a significant amount of wood charcoals which provides the first 14 C dates from charcoals at Mezhyrich. Numerous charcoals are identified contributing subsequent information about vegetation, environment and burning practices. They indicate, by comparison with pollen data already collected, the presence of forest patches in a mammoth steppe landscape, which might have influenced the collecting behavior of Epigravettian populations.

… 2010, held 2-7 May …, May 1, 2010

In the Central Ukraine area of the Middle Dnipro Basin, including the Desna river valley, there a... more In the Central Ukraine area of the Middle Dnipro Basin, including the Desna river valley, there are exceptional Upper Palaeolithic open air sites with mammoth bone dwelling structures. Mezhyrich is one of these settlements, which are attributed to the Epigravettian cultural facies and occurred in a periglacial environment, during Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 2. Mammoth bone buildings are surrounded by pits, which are filled with archaeological material (tools, hunting weapons, ivory and bone ornaments) and bones of mammoth and ...

The top issues of the Eastern European prehistoric archaeology. Archaeological Almanac, Donetsk, 2009

The typological studies of lithic assemblages which are originated from three field objects are p... more The typological studies of lithic assemblages which are originated from three field objects are presented in this paper: dwelling N 1 made from mammoth bones; pit N 7; and, work-shop with a portion of cultural layer which is situated nearby. These assemblages demonstrate a pronounced diversity of main typological indexes. The cores and large pieces of flint, blades and some tools (end-scrapers) were kept just in dwelling. At the same time, the remains of debitage and by-products of some tools modification (burin spalls) are more numerous in the pit and work-shop. Also, the pit and work-shop are characterized by the higher percentage of backed microliths, including the types with diagnostic projectile impact fracture as well as the burins with several working edges.

Thesis Chapters by Dmytro Nuzhnyi

Epigravettian sites of Middle Dnipro region – Archaeological Almanac, Kyiv: O. Fil’uk Pub., 2014

PRODUCTION INVENTORY OF AREA OF CULTURAL LAYER TO THE SOUTH FROM THE FIRST MEZHYRICHIAN DWELLING ... more PRODUCTION INVENTORY OF AREA OF CULTURAL LAYER TO THE SOUTH FROM THE FIRST MEZHYRICHIAN DWELLING
Upper Palaeolithic settlement Mezhyrich is well-known archaeological site excavations of which are providing since 1966 by different groups of researchers. By previous investigations on the territory of site were discovered 4 dwellings with using mammoth in the constructions and pits around each of them. At present the main attention gives to the exploring of different sections and objects connected with 1st and 2nd dwellings, such as work-shops, pits and parts of saturated cultural layer - so called "top- talische”. Among the objects that investigated last time is the section on the south of 1st dwelling - excavated in 1966 by EG. Pidoplichko - the territory of high activity connected to the entrance area of dwelling.
The article gives a characteristic of producing inventory that comes from this section and the main attention gives to flint artifacts. In the result of typological-statistic analysis the authors marks the bright difference between statistic data of materials that comes from the dwelling and from this part of “toptalische”. Assemblages from different objects of site demonstrate a certain diversity of main typological indexes that is the evidence of various kinds of activity carried out in different parts of the site.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012

Fuel management during the Paleolithic periods is an important issue to understand past human sub... more Fuel management during the Paleolithic periods is an important issue to understand past human subsistence. Numerous Palaeolithic sites relate an abundance of burnt bones in hearths and an absence or scarcity of wood charcoals, which leads studies to focus on burnt bone remains and the use of bones in hearths. Few works take into account the micro-residues of wood charcoals which can still be present in hearth areas and excavated sediments. We studied the Epigravettian site with mammoth bone dwellings of Mezhyrich (Ukraine) previously characterized by its high content of burnt bones and an "absence" of wood charcoal during the so-called mammoth steppe. The presence or absence and proportions of both wood charcoals and burnt bones were quantified in macro-, meso-and microscale sediment size fractions by an image analysis method. Our results show that excavations during field-works at Mezhyrich give only a partial image of the original anthracological record and that most charcoal materials are lost with standard archaeological and anthracological approaches. The scarcity of charcoals in this site was possibly due to an important mass reduction accentuated by the addition of bones in hearths. By applying our protocol we recovered a significant amount of wood charcoals which provides the first 14 C dates from charcoals at Mezhyrich. Numerous charcoals are identified contributing subsequent information about vegetation, environment and burning practices. They indicate, by comparison with pollen data already collected, the presence of forest patches in a mammoth steppe landscape, which might have influenced the collecting behavior of Epigravettian populations.

… 2010, held 2-7 May …, May 1, 2010

In the Central Ukraine area of the Middle Dnipro Basin, including the Desna river valley, there a... more In the Central Ukraine area of the Middle Dnipro Basin, including the Desna river valley, there are exceptional Upper Palaeolithic open air sites with mammoth bone dwelling structures. Mezhyrich is one of these settlements, which are attributed to the Epigravettian cultural facies and occurred in a periglacial environment, during Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 2. Mammoth bone buildings are surrounded by pits, which are filled with archaeological material (tools, hunting weapons, ivory and bone ornaments) and bones of mammoth and ...

The top issues of the Eastern European prehistoric archaeology. Archaeological Almanac, Donetsk, 2009

The typological studies of lithic assemblages which are originated from three field objects are p... more The typological studies of lithic assemblages which are originated from three field objects are presented in this paper: dwelling N 1 made from mammoth bones; pit N 7; and, work-shop with a portion of cultural layer which is situated nearby. These assemblages demonstrate a pronounced diversity of main typological indexes. The cores and large pieces of flint, blades and some tools (end-scrapers) were kept just in dwelling. At the same time, the remains of debitage and by-products of some tools modification (burin spalls) are more numerous in the pit and work-shop. Also, the pit and work-shop are characterized by the higher percentage of backed microliths, including the types with diagnostic projectile impact fracture as well as the burins with several working edges.