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conceptions and beliefs in the form of
animism, magic, totemism, fetishism and
paleolithic art;
9) the main monuments to this period include
sites near Mizyn village (Chernihiv region),
Mezhyrich (Cherkasy region), etc. There are
500 monuments known.
10~6 thous. Mesolith (the Middle Stone Age):
B.C. 1) living conditions changed, the climate,
flora and fauna resembled the present state
(the glacier gradually melted);
2) mammoths and other big animals as a
primary hunting object disappeared, it
stimulated the invention of the first
mechanism – arms of mechanical action (bow
and arrows);
3) instruments of labour became more
elaborate: they were made to be small
(microlites), 1 mm thick and used as
arrowheads, spearheads harpoon heads. Big
instruments of labour were also used
(macrolites) – flint axes, adzes and so-called
insert instruments made of bone, flint and
wood;
4) appearance of geometrical shapes is a
peculiar feature of mesolith;
5) gradual domestication of wild animals took
place – the dog was the first animal
domesticated;
6) hunting still remained the main occupation
of the man, gathering was present in
improved forms, fishing gained in a great
importance but it was not of mass (collective)

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