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<< Our Photo Pages >> Umba ancient labyrinth - Turf Maze in Russia

Submitted by AlexAssa on Sunday, 08 November 2015  Page Views: 3761

Multi-periodSite Name: Umba ancient labyrinth Alternative Name: Stone Labyrinth Umba
Country: Russia
NOTE: This site is 83.414 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Turf Maze
Nearest Town: Murmansk  Nearest Village: Umba
Latitude: 66.677829N  Longitude: 34.344261E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
2

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Umba ancient labyrinth
Umba ancient labyrinth submitted by AlexAssa : Site in Russia (Vote or comment on this photo)
An ancient labyrinth which dates back to the 2nd millennium BC

"Some of labyrinths are located near other archaeological objects (primeval site, prehistoric burial places) where the quartz scrapers and drawing knifes, the shale arrowhead, the fragments of asbestine ceramics and the rare fragments of vessels decorated with an ornament have been found. The finding of these cultural artifacts attributes to the so-called "culture of Arctic Neolith (late Stone Age)", which approximately had dated back to the temporal interval of V-I millennium B.C. It allowed Gurina N.N. (1948; 1953), Mullo I.M. (1966) and others to compare age of the labyrinths known in the Kola region and located close to the primeval archeological sites just with the epoch of late Stone Age. Afterwards this age was extrapolated for all stone labyrinths available in the Kola region, and not just on those located near the primeval archeological sites. Due to works of the archeologists the age of the Kola labyrinths is already traditionally defined as the second millennium B.C., i.e. estimated as 3000-4000 years B.P."

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Re: Umba ancient labyrinth by bat400 on Sunday, 08 November 2015
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How was it dated?
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    Re: Umba ancient labyrinth by Bak_teria on Monday, 09 November 2015
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    "Some of labyrinths are located near other archaeological objects (primeval site, prehistoric burial places) where the quartz scrapers and drawing knifes, the shale arrowhead, the fragments of asbestine ceramics and the rare fragments of vessels decorated with an ornament have been found. The finding of these cultural artifacts attributes to the so-called "culture of Arctic Neolith (late Stone Age)", which approximately had dated back to the temporal interval of V-I millennium B.C. It allowed Gurina N.N. (1948; 1953), Mullo I.M. (1966) and others to compare age of the labyrinths known in the Kola region and located close to the primeval archeological sites just with the epoch of late Stone Age. Afterwards this age was extrapolated for all stone labyrinths available in the Kola region, and not just on those located near the primeval archeological sites. Due to works of the archeologists the age of the Kola labyrinths is already traditionally defined as the second millennium B.C., i.e. estimated as 3000-4000 years B.P."

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