Timonovka
Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 5 ″ N , 34 ° 19 ′ 1 ″ E
Timonowka ( Russian Тимоновка ; scientific transliteration Timonovka ) is a Upper Paleolithic camp site on the right bank of the Desna in the Bryansk Oblast in the western part of European Russia , which has been scientifically investigated since its discovery in August 1927. The site is named after a nearby, earlier village. Today it is located on the territory of the town of Brjansk immediately south of Suponewo , into which the village of Timonowka was incorporated in 1976.
It consists of six rectangular, 6–10 m long residential pits, which are about 3.0-3.5 m wide and about 2.5-3.0 m in the ground. The walls show traces of a wooden panel. A wooden beam ceiling with a heaped layer of earth is to be assumed. Access was via a ramp about one meter wide and 2.5 meters long. In each case two larger earth pits lay together with a smaller one, but only the larger ones had hearths, in one case with a smoke outlet made of bark in clay plaster. Nearby were conical storage pits with an upper diameter of 3.5 to 4.0 m and a depth of 0.8 to 2.4 m, which were also provided with ramps. The main game was the mammoth .
33,000 pieces of flint were found in two workplaces : cuts , core stones , knife-like tools and burins . The flint was fetched from a distance of 10 km because the local one did not meet the requirements. Two sewing needles with an eye are rare bone tools. Two pieces of ivory have incised drawings with wave and diamond patterns, another shows a fish.
literature
- Artur Čubur: Desjanskij paleolit: problemy istorii issledovanij, istoriografii i istočnikokovedenija . RSGU, Moscow 2005 (Russian, The Desna-Palaeolithic: Problems of the history of investigation, historiography and source studies ).
- Ivan Pidopličko: Pozdnepaleolitičeskie žilišča iz kostej mamontov na Ukraine . Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev 1969 (Russian).