ANCIENT ASTRONOMICAL CULTURE IN UKRAINE. 1: FINDS RELATING TO THE PALEOLITHIC ERA
Journal: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Year: 2014

In this paper we describe some archaeological finds in the territory of modern Ukraine which are thought to provide evidence of the ancient astronomical culture of our ancestors. These finds date to Upper and Middle Paleolithic times (i.e. 100,000-12,000 BCE). Among the finds unearthed at the Gontsy and Kiev-Kirillovskaya archaeological sites are mammoth tusk fragments which feature engraved patterns that have been interpreted as tables of lunar phase observations. More remarkable are two mammot