The Avdeev Paleolithic Site

A nation that doesn`t know its past has no future.

Lomonosov M. V.

Who are we?

Who are we and who are our ancestors? These are the questions that care. It is always interesting to discover something unusual, especially ancient cultural civilizations. It is very important to know our past and how everything began.

The Kursk region is rich in cultural heritage, longstanding traditions and has an extensive history. One of the most interesting objects of historical heritage is situated not far from Kursk. This place attracts a lot of archaeologists and historians. It is the Avdeev Paleolithic site.

    The Avdeev Paleolithic site was discovered in 1941 and consider its age to be about 25 000 years. The oldest places of 2 settlements were discovered there during archeological excavations. Pavel Borisovsky, Mikhail Voevodsky and Mariana Gvozdover were the first who carried on archeological excavations there. They found a lot of artefacts such as: figures of rhinoceros, hoes, needles, spearheads, arrows and knives made of bones and tusks belonged to mammoths and buffalos. It shows that people who lived there were hunters and craftsmen.  The sculptures of pregnant women, the figure of a woman with well-defined face features and a hairstyle, amber pendants, pins, collars and other decorations are the evidence of a great civilization. Women tried to be beautiful even then. The find of a bone flute shows people were not strangers to music.

It was a great settlement with its own culture.  What is culture? It includes knowledge and values, art, rules and different patterns of human behavior.

Nobody knows where this civilization disappeared but evidence of it has come down to our time. We can only suppose that climatic changes made them move from one place to another one. This site is located in the Oktyabrsky District of the Kursk region.

                Nowadays we have a lot of artifacts from the Avdeev Paleolithic site which are presented in the Kursk State Regional Museum of Archeology. This place with rich history attracts attention of plenty of people!