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Ancient times

 Read it if you are thirsty for knowledge and want to see how the population is being fooled by spreading obvious stupidity – “epidemics” of viruses, “cooling” of the climate, which turns into refugees, wars. They want to remake the world. Maybe there is no other way. No one takes into account the interests of the population – they came up with technologies and robots – they “facilitated” labor, thereby declaring that labor would not be needed. Without this, without movement, humanity as a whole is doomed. Maybe there’s no point in feeling sorry for people. But who leads them – who sets their behavior? – the governments that are above them.

A sad future awaits humanity – according to all the information I have collected from various sources of famous authors, and all of them are world-famous scientists. But no one talks about this, about the future – there is no point in reacting to news in the media, they are all lies.

I will quote a short chapter “Paleolithic” from the scientific work of Georgy Vladimirovich Vernadsky and Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich “Ancient Rus'” on the topic of human development in the territory of the former Russian Empire.

G.V. Vernadsky is an outstanding scientist, world-famous historian from the USA, a native of Crimea, who emigrated abroad after the revolution of 1917 and the coming to power of the soviets, which in reality are estates – gangs of boyars and merchants who have ruled in Russia from time immemorial.

It’s difficult to look without maps, especially for those who have not encountered the geography of Russia, but please do it yourself – it helps to understand the history.

The first excavations to identify settlement sites of Paleolithic man in Russia and Ukraine began in the 1870s. In 1873, a settlement was opened in the village of Khontsy (Gontsy) on the Uday River (Poltava Governorate). Four years later, Count Uvarov explored a site in the Karacharovsky ravine, which descends to the Oka. These two expeditions gave a good start to the study of the remains of Paleolithic culture in Russia, and during the period between 1877 and 1917 мany sites were excavated. As we have already noted, a more systematic study of this problem began in 1917. New discoveries are now made almost every year, and soon the picture will be even clearer.

Archaeological science itself developed, especially in its early stages, on the material of European finds – those that were made in France, Germany and Scandinavia. It was on the basis of this material that a classification of things belonging to the Stone Age culture was given, as well as a chronology of the stages of culture. To what extent such a classification and chronology can be applied to Eurasian material is a problem that has not yet been sufficiently addressed. Even using traditional terminology, we must keep in mind that it cannot be completely acceptable to the archeology of Eurasia.

In the study of Paleolithic culture, much depends on the results of geological research. The chronology and classification of the layer proposed by geologists are also uncertain, but still, in general, geological data are more reliable than archaeological ones. Geological science was built on a broader geographical basis, since research in this area had long been carried out internationally. In Eurasia, too, geological research began long before archaeological research. Stone Age sites that have so far been discovered on the territory of both Cysural (European) Russia and Siberia can be attributed to the Quaternary period: namely, to the middle and upper layer of the Pleistocene. From the point of view of a historian, this is extreme antiquity, since it should be measured in millennia or even tens of millennia.

The geographical situation in that distant era was completely different than in our time. At the beginning of the Quaternary period, most of Western Eurasia was covered with ice. Geologists identify a sequence of three or four glaciations, separated by intermediate periods during which the glacier retreated.

During each ice age, a giant glacier stretched from Scandinavia to the south and southeast, covering the entirety of Northern and Central Russia. During the most widespread distribution of the glacier, its southern edge reached a line that can be drawn from the Carpathians to Kyiv on the Dnieper and from there to Orel; from Orel it went in a bend to Voronezh and up east to the Volga, then up the Volga to the mouth of the Kama and further through the northern part of the Ural Mountains to the source of the Ob in Siberia. The Southern Urals region was covered with water at that time. The huge South Ural Lake was connected to two other lakes, which later formed the Caspian and Aral seas.

Even after the glacier eventually began to retreat north around 4000 BC, its traces remained visible throughout the country for a long time. A huge lake appeared in the northwestern part of Russia, small remnants of which are Lakes Ladoga and Onega. In the south, in the process of gradual retreat of the glacier and melting of the glacial edge, mud flows were formed, merging into the Black Sea, which at that time stretched north beyond the boundaries of its modern shores to the steppe strip. It was from these streams that the Dnieper, Don, Volga and other rivers emerged. It was during the post-glacial period that the main subsoils of Central and Southern Russia and Ukraine, known as loess, were formed; something like granulated alumina, light gray in color. Loess appeared only gradually from under the ice cover. As the glacier retreated, it left behind what are now known as moraines, consisting of polished stones and granite boulders, at its borders. Perhaps the climate of the areas recently freed from ice was cold, like the climate of the present subpolar regions. Such natural conditions were favorable for the spread of mammoths, and it is obvious that this animal was found throughout Western Eurasia in the post-glacial period. Gradually the climate became milder, but there were intervals when the glacier grew again and the cold wave moved south. It is widely accepted that during the so-called Madelenian period (named after the Stone Age site at Madeleine, Dordogne, France) it became colder again. When the weather warmed again, the southern plains were covered with abundant vegetation, and gradually a top layer of humus formed over the loess; This is how the famous “black earth” (Chernozem – Wikipedia) appeared in the steppes of Southern Russia and Ukraine.

During the Ice Age, man could only live in the south. Man of the Middle Paleolithic, the so-called Mousterian period (from the Stone Age settlements in Le Moustier, Dordogne, France), was still at a low level of cultural development. He was, however, capable of starting a fire. He lived mainly in caves or under the edges of rocks pushed forward. Hunting was his main source of livelihood, bringing him both food and clothing. His main tool was the hand ax (coup-de-poing), a piece of flint with one end pointed and the other rounded or left blunt. It could serve as a cleaver or an axe. This tool did not have a handle and had to be held in a clenched fist. For hunting, a wooden pike was used, the end of which was sharpened in the fire. With the help of these tools, a person could kill wild bulls, horses, deer, as well as predators, even a cave lion and a bear. This was perhaps the period of primitive communism. The average hunting party or horde could consist of two dozen people.

Many Stone Age sites discovered in Russia belong to the Middle Paleolithic period. These are some of the caves in Crimea, such as the Wolf Grotto, Kiik-Koba, Shaitan-Koba; the Yeiskaya site in the Kuban and the site on the banks of the Derkul River, where it flows into the Donets. During excavations at these sites, flint tools, bones of animals killed by humans, and sometimes parts of human skeletons were found. Judging by the finds in Kiik-Koba, the people who lived in the Crimean caves of that time belonged to the Neanderthal type.

From the culture of the Middle Paleolithic period, we now turn to the upper one, known in Western archeology as the Aurignac-Solutrean culture (From the site discovered in the Aurignac cave, Haute-Garonne, and the Solutre cave, Saône-et-Loire, both in France). The settlements of this era were obviously more permanent than in the previous period. Dwellings were dug into the ground; the walls were lined with logs or stones; the roof may have been made of willow. Tools and weapons are characterized by sharp flint plates on a short handle and a spear with a flint tip. The flint chisel was also an important tool. Other working tools and tools were made from bones and deer antlers. The horn was sometimes decorated with drawings, figures of deer or other animals. Figurines of women were made from mammoth tusks. As in the previous period, hunting was the main occupation of man.

Among the Stone Age sites in Western Eurasia, belonging to the Upper Paleolithic layer of the Aurignacian and Solutrean types, the following can be mentioned: Suren Cave in Crimea; Borshchevo, Gagarino and Kostenki in the Don basin; Mezino in the Dnieper region. The Paleolithic settlement of Malta (Malta is one of many Stone Age sites in Central Siberia, which are located in places of flooding after the completion of the power dams on the Angara due to the electrification of the area), in the area of Irkutsk in Siberia (on the Belaya River, a tributary of the Angara) reveals similar culture.

At the end of this period the climate changed from mild to cold. During the next period of Madelenian culture, both vegetation and animal life had to adapt to the cold wave. This was the era of the deer. Human habits have accordingly undergone profound changes. Deer hunting and fishing were the main sources of human subsistence at this time. The usual devices for fishing were dams and streams with a stone barrier during the spawning season. Large fish among those rushing through the dam were caught with a harpoon. In their search for game and fish, the people of those times may have led a nomadic life, following the migration of deer. Temporary housing was used in the intervals between migrations. During the winter, dugouts served as shelter. In summer, external shelters were built to protect the hearth from rain. Platforms with the remains of hearths were discovered, for example, at the Kirillovo and Borshchevo sites. At some sites, pits with animal bones and various refuse were excavated (Karacharovo and Kostenki sites). Flint was used less frequently during this period than before; bone, deer antler and mammoth ivory were now the predominant materials from which utensils were made. A spear with a neatly sharpened bone tip was a standard hunting tool. There was greater variety in utensils and ornamented items. Some of the art items clearly had religious meaning.

According to the types of objects found, the following Eurasian Stone Age settlements can be classified as belonging to the Madelenian period: Kostenki and Borshchevo in the Don region; Karacharovo on the Oka; Kirillovo in Kyiv, Gontsy in the Poltava province: Novgorod-Seversk; Sushkino near Rylsk; Studenica on the Dniester: Tomsk and other sites in the Ob and Irtysh basins; Afontova Mountain near Krasnoyarsk; Verkholskaya Mountain near Irkutsk. It should be noted that at least some sites of this period are located near sites of the previous era, which indicates a sequence in the creation of settlements.

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