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Archaeological Work in Ukrain by Professor Ščerbakivskyj

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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Having had occasion, when in Prague, to meet Professor Ščerbakivskyj and to discuss with him his work at Hontzi, I felt t i should be made known in England, more especially as little has been published from this area since Volkov's papers at the Geneva Congress. Only a short precis is possible of the excavations and illustrations. Although the excavator inclines to a Magdalenian date for the culture, perhaps because it is not typically Aurignacian, one might rather suggest ‘Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic’, which occurs in an area where the Magdalenians —a French folk—never penetrated, although their influence was no doubt felt. This is certainly applicable to Pfedmost and other finds in Moravia which are neither of true Solutre nor La Madeleine culture. It is important for prehistorians to grasp clearly the fact that even at this early time cultures had by no means even a European extension and that different provinces had different cultures, more or less related.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1925

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page 273 note 1 V. Ščerbakivskyj, Les fouilles de la station paléolithique dans le village Hontzi, district de Loubni, gouv. de Poltava, en 1914-5 (Bulletin de la Société ukrainienne scientifique pour étudier et conserver les monuments d'antiquité et d'art dans le Gouvernement de Poltava, vol. i, Poltava, 1919)Google Scholar.

page 276 note 1 The small size is probably due to the absence of large pieces of natural flint, the nearest chalk-beds being some 200 km. distant.

page 277 note 1 Volkov, J., Iskustivo madlenskoi epochi N. Ukrainie. Archeol. lietopi. Jugnoĭ Rossii, 1903, Ap. 23 and 24.Google Scholar