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Wolf Mane
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1967 the archaeological excavation began in Novosibirsk region on the territory of the
settlement Ozerki., in the place, which inhabitants named as Wolf Mane. The well-known
Siberian archaeologist A. Okladnikov was the leader of this work. |

Scientists consider that an inhabitant of anciant Siberia approximately looked like
this (that is the reconstruction of the Human, who lived about 30 thousand years
ago). |
Here on the former bank of a large
reservoir on depth 1,5 - 2 ě from the level of the modern surface the scientists found
the remains of more than hundred mammoths. A part of bones was cracked, and some even
specially were treated by the Human. Probably here, at the animals bodies, there was a
temporary stand of primitive hunters. Radiocarbon dating of this stand is 14 700 years.
Interesting feature is that there were no stone tools there. It is explained by
that in this part of Western Siberia there were no surface outputs of a stone stocks.
Therefore the first settlers of this region successfully substituted stone by bones and
produced the most of the tools from them. The wide use of bones is the most characteristic
indication of the ancient-bone century of the south of Western Siberia. A. Okladnikov
named this age "the bone palaeolithic”.
In that far time a wood-steppe, where the find was made, represented low
waterlogged flatness covered with a net of joined lakes, rivers and streams. This water
system was the southern outskirts of the Mansiyskoe Ice Lake. The long bands of a dry land
were raised over it. The herds of large animals - mammoths, bisons, horses - grazed on
them. A low marshy lowlands and rivers were very dangerous for animals. They often sank in
swamps, failed under ice, sank in rivers. Tied and wounded animals and also their fresh
corpses became easy bags of palaeolithic hunters. The Wolf Mane was located in that place,
where the current stream brought an animals, falling into water. The people knew this
place too and tried keep not far. Here they organized feasts, eating up the meat of
perished animals. The stands of such types archaeologists called " kill site"
– a place of hunting. The most ancient archaeological objects in the Western Siberia are
of this type. |
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