Mezine is a place within the modern country of Ukraine which has the most artifact finds of Paleolithic culture origin.[1][2][3][4] The Epigravettian[5] site is located on a bank of the Desna River in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine, near the village of Mezine.[6] The settlement is best known for an archaeological find of a set of bracelets engraved with marks possibly representing calendar lunar-cycles.[7] Also found near Mezine was the earliest known example of a swastika-like form, as part of a decorative object dated to 10,000 BCE. It was described (see references for illustrations) as an object carved from ivory mammoth tusks to resemble[8] an:
Ice age Bird ... with Inscribed Swastikas...[9]
The bird is understood as an inherently shamanistic animal, often being a symbol of the soul or of the spirit experienced in flight (from death).[10]
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^Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok The Old Stone Age in European Russia - 278 pages AMS Press, - 1 Apr 1983 ISBN
0404159273 [Retrieved 2012-01-05]
^The Iryna B. Vavilova and Tetyna G. Artemenko (2009). The ancient cultural framework of astronomy in Ukraine. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 5, E7 - Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System [2] doi:10.1017/S1743921311003279 [Retrieved 2012-01-05]
^Joseph Campbell 16 May 2002 - The flight of the wild gander: explorations in the mythological dimension : selected essays, 1944-1968 - 192 pages New World Library ISBN 1-57731-210-4 [Retrieved 2012-01-08]
^J.J.White the IIIrd [from earlier research of F.Hancar & (separately) F.K.Volkov,] Midwestern Epigraphic Society Archived 2012-01-17 at the Wayback Machine 2012-01-08
^Joseph Campbell 1959 MASKS OF GOD: PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY p.257-258 LONDON : SECKER AND WARBURG : 1960 Archived 2012-04-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-01-12 (see also: The Bollingen Foundation)
Mezine is a place within the modern country of Ukraine which has the most artifact finds of Paleolithic culture origin. The Epigravettian site is located...
late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine. It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylised picture...
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its chronology eleven thousand years ago, when the Paleolithic culture of Mezine reached its apogee. Many of the rituals and holidays described in the book...
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