Archaeologists have found a house that is 18 thousand years old

Working on the territory of the museum-reserve “Kostenki” in the Voronezh region, scientists made themselves a “royal” gift for the day of the archaeologist – August 15. Right under the wall of the museum, they excavated a rich collection of mammoth bones and the frame of an ancient dwelling.

We stumbled upon artifacts accidentally - during a soil inspection for the construction of a new museum building.

We made a control pit and immediately came across the bones. The land here is literally stuffed with valuable objects from the point of view of science, said Viktor Kovalevsky, director of the museum-reserve.

The construction of the hull had to be postponed - on the site of the pit now a giant excavation, in which, in addition to 400 bones and 7 skulls of mammoths, the frame of an ancient dwelling of unprecedented size was found.

While excavated from the strength of the fifth part and it is difficult to judge the true size and purpose of the building. According to our estimates, it was round, 8-9 meters in diameter. The found hearth testifies that people lived in it. The exact age is difficult to determine. We can only assume that the house preserved in our museum has an age of 20,000 years, and the find is slightly higher, so it is about 18,000 years old, Kovalevsky said.

Weapons, jewelry, household items of the Khazars and ancient Slavs, including the bone spear tip discovered on August 10, will be presented at two exhibitions that opened in the museum-reserve on August 15.

Source: www.ecology.md