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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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