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5) changes took place in mutual relation
between men: primitive herd was substituted
by before-tribal community;
6) archaeologists found monuments to this
period near Moldove village on the Dniester
river, in the Crimea (Vovchyi grotto, Teshyk-
Tash) and other. There are about 200 sites in
all.
40-35~10 The Late Paleolith:
thous. B.C. 1) the Cro-Magnon, the man with features of
the modern physical type “homo
sapiens”/human appeared;
2) it is the time of the last great ice formation;
3) new instruments of labour were
made:including darts, cultrated plates being
the constituent parts of stickles, cutters, drills;
together with stone items, articles made of
bone and horn came into usage – harpoons,
awls, needles, etc.;
4) small dwellings were built from bones and
tusks of mammoths (it took 385 mammoth
bones (about 3 tons) to built the dwelling
discovered in Mezhyrichchya);
5) the main occupation was represented by
collective hunting of beating type after
mammoths, bisons, rhinoceroses, wild horses,
etc. Gathering decreased considerably as a
result of temperature fall;
6) there was also a change in the form of co-
existence – the tribal community was formed
with matriarchy as a social structure;
7) men mastered connected speech;
8) there appeared ancient forms of religious
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