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<< Text Pages >> Kamyana Mohyla - Rock Cut Tomb in Ukraine

Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 February 2022  Page Views: 798

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kamyana Mohyla
Country: Ukraine
NOTE: This site is 39.825 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Berdyansk
Latitude: 46.950000N  Longitude: 35.470000E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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The Stone Tomb is a unique monument of geology and archeology. This is a sand hill, in the grottoes and caves which contain several thousand petroglyphs - rock paintings of ancient people who lived and migrated in the Azov steppes for many millennia. The Stone Tomb is the only place in the world where drawings are concentrated, dating to such a wide historical range: from the Late Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages (XXIV-XX millennium BC - XI-XIII centuries AD).

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Includes a large cairn with rock art possibly dating from the Mesolithic.

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Re: Kamyana Mohyla by Andy B on Monday, 16 May 2022
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Kamiana Mohyla [Кам’яна Могила], sometimes spelled Kamyana Mohyla. A knoll of sandstone deposits from the Miocene epoch resembling a large kurhan, situated on the right bank of the Molochna River near Terpinnia, Melitopol raion, Zaporizhia oblast. It’s height reaches up to 12 m; the hill is approximately 75 m long and 40 m wide and covers an approximate area of 3 ha. A unique geological formation, Kamiana Mohyla is considered by the majority of archeologists to be a natural monument; however, some geologists question the possibility of its natural formation, and claim that it must be considered, at least partially, as a man-made construction. It is composed of over 3,000 large fairly loosely assembled sandstone slabs. Underneath and in-between these slabs 65 caves and grottos have been discovered to date containing ancient petroglyphs of wild bulls, wolves, horses, and other animals, human beings, and geometric patterns dating back to the Upper Paleolithic Period, the Mesolithic Period, the Neolithic Period, the Eneolithic Period, and the Bronze Age, when Kamiana Mohyla was a site of religious worship. Some petroglyphs created by the Scythians and Sarmatians have also been discovered. The most recent petroglyphs date back to the princely era of Kyivan Rus’ and include Christian symbols.

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Re: History of the Stone Tomb by Andy B on Monday, 16 May 2022
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The Northern Azov region has provided a large number of various archaeological monuments that allow to recreate the picture of the origin and development of primitive society. One such place is the Stone Tomb. The history of research on the hill begins in 1890 with the discovery of N.I. Veselovsky 4 grottoes with samples of rock painting - petroglyphs. In pre-revolutionary Russia, no one paid due attention to the unique drawings of the Stone Tomb. The turning point in the history of the study of the monument of primitive culture was the years 1936-1938, when the Southern Ukraine worked Azov-Black Sea expedition led by O.M. Badera.

From 1951 to 1957 at the Stone Tomb conducted research under the leadership of M.Ya. Rudinsky, which allowed a new look at the cultural and historical complexes of ancient drawings. In 1961 and 1963, the work on the Stone Tomb was continued by V.M. Gladilin and BD Mikhailov, who opened new grottoes, as well as in the grotto of the Bull new drawings of bulls, people, linear and geometric drawings, etc. Ten years later (1971-1973) the Stone Tomb was studied by the Azov Archaeological Expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences together with the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore (headed by VM Danilenko and BD Mikhailov). From 1983 to 2004 the study of the monument was conducted by B.D. Mikhailov. The result of field work was the discovery of 15 new grottoes and caves.

During 2010-2018, the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve "Stone Grave" was one of the main places where the international Ukrainian-Swiss project "Adaptation of plants and humans to climate change in Ukraine" was implemented. Within the framework of the project, archeological excavations of two settlements were carried out: "Stone Grave-1" and "Stone Grave-3". In 2013, the archeological expedition NIAZ "Stone Grave" conducted explorations in the valley of the Molochnaya River within the Tokmatsky, Mykhailivsky, Melitopol, Yakymivsky districts of Zaporozhye region. The purpose of the expedition was to identify new and survey of already known monuments to determine the state of their preservation. In 2015-2016 on the territory of the reserve worked an archaeological expedition consisting of researchers of the museum and students of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. B. Khmelnytsky.

Scientists conducted excavations not only on the territory of the reserve, but also in the settlements adjacent to it. Many interesting artifacts were found during the works in the villages of Novofilippovka (1983), Voznesenka (1983), Sosnivka (1986), Terpinnia (1987), Semenivka (1987) and others. Some finds have helped to date and interpret the discovery on the very hill of the Stone Tomb. Archeology does not stand still, it is constantly changing. Techniques are becoming more complicated, the latest equipment is appearing, and its importance in the world is growing. In addition, it is influenced by social events that take place in society. There is a change in people's attitudes towards their cultural heritage. Discoveries and discoveries of archeology make a significant contribution to both Ukrainian and world culture.

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History of the Stone Tomb by Andy B on Monday, 16 May 2022
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Many legends have been written about this miracle of nature. And here is one of them: The hero Bogur sinned before Allah, and he punished him: he ordered to pull out stones from the nearby mountain ridge and make a mountain of such height on the banks of the Molochnaya River that the steppe could be seen in all directions. Doing the will of Allah, Bogur tore huge stones from the ridge, carried them on himself and stacked them in the specified place on top of each other. In order to finish the work as soon as possible, he resorted to a trick: he stacked the stones loosely. More than half the work had already been done when Bogur, dragging another boulder, stumbled and fell into one of the crevices he had left between the stones, got stuck there and died of starvation. Such a punishment befell him for wanting to deceive Allah. And Allah commanded the wind to fill all the cracks with sand and cover the body of the hero, whose bones are still there.

Geologically and historically, the Stone Tomb is one of the unique monuments of this kind. This is the remnant of the sandstone of the Sarmatian Sea of ​​the Tertiary period (XIV-XII million years BC), which occupied the territory of the Black, Azov and Caspian Seas. Millions of years ago there was a sandstone shoal. Later, when the Pontic Sea arose, limestone deposits formed at this site. The sea is gone, the desert has reigned. Reddish-brown clays containing iron and manganese appeared. Later, the depressions of the Pra-Molochnaya River were formed here, the waters of which passed deep into the earth, and oxides of iron and manganese came to the surface, forming a rocky rock. So gradually a sandstone monolith appeared on this place. During the melting of the glacier in the north (its border reached the area of ​​modern Dnipropetrovsk) "big water" flowing to the south, formed river valleys. Due to the natural deepening of the Molochnaya riverbed, a huge island was on the surface of the valley. Under the action of water and wind, the primary shield of the sandstone split, and its fragments slipped on the sand, and a kind of stone hill emerged. Over time, the plates acquired amazing shapes and shapes. Today on many of them you can see the prints of mollusks of the Sarmatian Sea. However, this is not a chaotic accumulation of slabs, but a stone shell in which grottoes and caves were formed, which proved to be very convenient for the cult purposes of ancient people.

Currently, 68 sites with different images made in different techniques and styles on the surface of stone slabs have been recorded within the Stone Tomb. Basically, these drawings were rubbed on the sandstone with hard stone, forming indentations, which were only occasionally covered with mineral red and black paints.

Petroglyphs (from the Greek Πέτρος - stone and γλυφή - carving) of the Stone Tomb are unique examples of primitive art. They are grouped within individual locations, their characteristic feature is the richness of linear-geometric elements, sometimes combined into bizarre groups with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images. Much of the rock paintings of the Stone Tomb are various signs, ideograms and symbols. Next to the images of animals, birds, people you can see geometric shapes: rhombuses, spirals, lines, zigzags, grids and so on. Perhaps the drawings were a magical means of achieving a specific goal. They could serve as a means of transmitting information about the myths of a given society and thus the primitive art indirectly, with the help of mythological representations reflected the reality of that time.

Around the Stone Tomb there is a whole complex of archeological monuments (parking lots, settlements, burials), which created a local steppe landscape, an area with a religious and ceremonial center on a sandstone hill. Studies of these archaeological sites can help clarify the dating of petroglyphs and understanding of the processes that took place here in ancient times. At the same time, the location of the Stone Tomb i

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and some pages in English:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190704184150/http://en.stonegrave.org/hystory?lang=

http://web.archive.org/web/20190704184146/http://en.stonegrave.org/mem?lang=
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Re: Kamyana Mohyla by XIII on Wednesday, 27 April 2022
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Cultural terrorism. The Russians mined the Stone Tomb reserve of ancient culture in Ukraine
April 27, 2022

Russian troops put mines at the reserve around an ancient cultural monument near the occupied Melitopol (southern Ukraine). In addition, the Russian military is digging trenches in villages near the reserve which is one of the oldest monuments of nature and history. Since 2006, the reserve has been a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Stone Tomb is a natural formation, which reaches a height of 12 meters. It covers an area of ​​1.6 hectares and includes 3,000 tombs. Stone paintings can be found in the caves and grottoes, which date back to 5 thousand years BC.

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