Bracelet of mammoth ivory tusk from 20,000 B.C. found in Ukraine. The design is still used in Ukrainian embroidery today.
Bracelet of mammoth ivory tusk from 20,000 B.C. found in Ukraine.
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A bracelet carved from a single piece of mammoth ivory found at Mezin, Ukraine (not southern Russia as James and Thorpe say) has a magnificent design which can be found to this day in the embroidery of Ukrainian costumes and cloths. This bracelet dates from about 20,000 B.C. and the design is reminiscent of, but predates, the famous Greek meander
Bracelet of mammoth ivory tusk from 20,000 B.C. found in Ukraine. The design is still used in Ukrainian embroidery today.
20,000BC: Date for a bracelet of Mezin, South Russia, carved from a single piece of mammoth ivory. (James/Thorpe). 20,000BC: Earliest mining, flint mines of Australia, at Koonalda. By 4000BC, when surface-available flint was used up, sub-surface flint-mining began, in Western Europe. But copper mining began at Rudna Glav, in Serbia, by 4500BC. Miners used antler picks. (James/Thorpe). Balkans area became a major source of copper.Although the Romans were ignorant of soap as a cleanser until 2nd century A.D. the Scythians of Ukraine probably as early as the 7th century B.C. were using soap to wash their hair according to the Greek historian Herodotus..
