L. Samoilenko, The Head of Museum of Arсhaeology,
P. Shydlovskyi, PhD in History, Associate Professor
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
MEZHYRICH SETTLEMENT: WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE OF OUR PAST?
The article highlighted the 50-year history of the unique archeological site – the mammoth-hunters settlement that dates the mid-15th millennium BP, situated on the territory of the modern village Mezhyrich, Kaniv district, Cherkasy region, on a promontory between the rivers Ros and Rosava, a little to the west from the Dnieper. The paper reviews the current state of the settlement. The authors inform about the scientific and practical seminar on 22 July, 2016. The staff and students of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at the initiative of the Th. Vovk Center for Paleoethnological Research to mark the half-century anniversary studies of an Upper Palaeolithic site with the remains of mammoth-bone architecture organized this event. The seminar resulted in establishing links between scholars-archaeologists, representatives of district and regional administrations and local communities looking to the future cooperation for the preservation of a unique object – remains of the dwelling of prehistoric people in the territory of the site. In addition, we paid attention to suggestions concerning the rescue of the findings that is crucial for the domestic and Eastern European Paleolithic, and its musefication for further use for scientific, educational, cultural and educational activities on the modern standards level.
Keywords: archeology, protection of cultural heritage of Ukraine, Paleolithic, hunters of mammoth-hunters' site, musefication.
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