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A Palaeolithic ‘Pompeii’ at Kostenki, Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Andrei A. Sinitsyn
Andrei A. Sinitsyn*
Affiliation:
Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18, Dvortsovaia nab., Saint Petersburg, 191186 Russia. [email protected]
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Abstract

A new Upper Palaeolithic occupation layer has been discovered in 2000 at the site of Markina Gora (Kostenki 14) on the River Don (the Voronezh Oblast), in Russia. The layer was sealed by volcanic ash, suggesting that a natural catastrophe had put an end to a human settlement there, just as Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae were destroyed and buried following the powerful eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. The Palaeolithic site is notable for its assemblage of ornaments

Keywords

Upper PalaeolithicAurignacianvolcanic eruptionsRussia
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 295 , March 2003 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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