Mesyn
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| Мезин | |||
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| Oblast : | Chernihiv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Korop Raion | ||
| Height : | 124 m | ||
| Area : | 3.158 km² | ||
| Residents : | 346 (2006) | ||
| Population density : | 110 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 16210 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4656 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 50 ' N , 33 ° 4' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 7122085101 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Nadija Ihnatiwna Filko | ||
| Address: | вул. Кибальчича 17 16 210 с. Мезин |
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Mesyn (Ukrainian Мезин ; Russian Mesin ) is a village founded in 1551 in Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine with about 340 inhabitants. Mesyn is known for the Upper Paleolithic camp site (not to be confused with Mézin in France).
geography
Mesyn is located on the right bank of the Desna in Korop district and is the administrative center of the district council of the same name, to which the village of Kuryliwka ( Курилівка ) belongs.
Upper Paleolithic site
In 1908, Fedir Wowk found the remains of sunken round winter huts of hunters and gatherers with foundations made of earth, mammoth bones and stones. The roofs were formed by rod structures, presumably covered with fur. There was a fireplace inside . Also spectacular are the mammoth-bone houses of Meschyritsch , Dobranitschewka and Kiev, Kirillowskaja Ulitza (all Ukraine ) from the time of the Eastern European Epi gravettiens (corresponds roughly to the Magdalenian of Central Europe). The remains of the game included specimens of 108 mammoths, 80 deer, 56 horses, 17 musk oxen and 3 rhinos.
The finds consist of stone and bone tools, u. a. Amber, shells that come from a distance of about 600 km, sewing needles with an eye made of ivory , open bracelets with patterns and cord holes at the end, plates with geometric patterns and about 20 ornament-covered figures of difficult to interpret shape, as birds, crouching animals, phallas or stylized women with pronounced buttocks can be interpreted.
Art; music
A shoulder blade and two lower jaws of mammoths were completely covered with 1 cm wide red zigzag and meander patterns . On closer inspection of the bones, traces of wear were found, which indicate that it was used as a percussion instrument. Other musical instruments such as flutes and pipes were also discovered.
literature
- Chester S. Chard: Northeast Asia in Prehistory. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1974. ISBN 0-299-06430-1 , pp. 20 ff.