Archaeologists have found 32,000-year-old human remains in southeastern Europe, which suggest that the earliest humans practiced “mortuary” or “ritual” cannibalism.
The excavated human remains, the oldest known in Europe, were found at a shelter-cave site called Buran-Kaya III in Ukraine and exhibit post-mortem cut marks, the MSNBC reports.
"Our observations show a post-mortem treatment of human corpses including the selection of the skull," said the paleozoologist and archaeologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Stephane Pean.
However, Pean said that the treatment of the human bodies, which came with ornaments, did not follow nutritional purposes, rejecting the possibility of dietary cannibalism.
"Observed treatment of the human body, together with the presence of body ornaments, indicates rather a mortuary ritual: either a ritual cannibalism or a specific mortuary practice for secondary disposal," he described.
The experts also excavated valuable artifacts at the site in Ukraine consisting of five mammoth beads, one engraved plate made out of mammoth ivory and 35 perforated shells.
Source: Press TV [July 11, 2011]
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/07/early-humans-ritual-cannibals-study.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+(The+Archaeology+News+Network)
Showing posts with label ukraine. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Zoo owner moves into cage
Visitors to a Ukrainian zoo will get the chance to see a new attraction after the zoo's owner decided to move into a cage - with a pride of lions.
Aleksandr Pylyshenko will be fed through the bars at the same time as the lions and says he will remain there - sleeping in the cage and playing with the big cats for five weeks.
Pylyshenko explained: "One of the lions is pregnant - I plan to see the cubs being born and spend some time with them but then I will move out."
The 40-year-old added: "The living conditions will be absolutely the same for the lions and me. We will sleep on wooden floorboards and have food given to us through bars."
There will be four webcams planted in the cage. They will provide both experimental integrity and broadcast the 'reality show' on the internet.
During the experiment at the zoo in the city of Vasilyevka in south-eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr, a keen artist, is going to continue his art work.
The paintings created will be sold to raise money for the zoo.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Ukraine_lion_man
Aleksandr Pylyshenko will be fed through the bars at the same time as the lions and says he will remain there - sleeping in the cage and playing with the big cats for five weeks.
Pylyshenko explained: "One of the lions is pregnant - I plan to see the cubs being born and spend some time with them but then I will move out."
The 40-year-old added: "The living conditions will be absolutely the same for the lions and me. We will sleep on wooden floorboards and have food given to us through bars."
There will be four webcams planted in the cage. They will provide both experimental integrity and broadcast the 'reality show' on the internet.
During the experiment at the zoo in the city of Vasilyevka in south-eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr, a keen artist, is going to continue his art work.
The paintings created will be sold to raise money for the zoo.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Ukraine_lion_man
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Early human fossils unearthed in Ukraine
Ancient remains uncovered in Ukraine represent some of the oldest evidence of modern people in Europe, experts have claimed. Archaeologists found human bones and teeth, tools, ivory ornaments and animal remains at the Buran-Kaya cave site. The 32,000-year-old fossils bear cut marks suggesting they were defleshed as part of a post-mortem ritual.Details have been published in the journal PLoS One.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Croc swallows phone and starts ringing
January 24, 2011 - 10:36AM
Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing.
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like Peter Pan, in which a crocodile happily went "tick-tock" after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: he hasn't eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth when the phone slipped.
"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.
Employees were sceptical when Ms Golovko, a mother in her 20s, told them what happened.
"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said an employee who declined to give her name.
Since then, Gena has been refusing food and has been listless. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader of the group.
"His behaviour has changed," the employee said. "He moves very little and swims much less than he used to."
Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but, while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.
Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile would be taken for an X-ray this week if he continued to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.
"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Dr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."
The crocodile with the ticking stomach in Peter Pan was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh by eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
Ms Golovko has about as much hope of retrieving her phone as Hook did of retrieving his hand. But she does want to get back the phone's SIM card, which holds her precious photos and contacts.
See video at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/croc-swallows-phone-and-starts-ringing-20110124-1a1lc.html
Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing.
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like Peter Pan, in which a crocodile happily went "tick-tock" after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: he hasn't eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth when the phone slipped.
"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.
Employees were sceptical when Ms Golovko, a mother in her 20s, told them what happened.
"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said an employee who declined to give her name.
Since then, Gena has been refusing food and has been listless. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader of the group.
"His behaviour has changed," the employee said. "He moves very little and swims much less than he used to."
Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but, while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.
Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile would be taken for an X-ray this week if he continued to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.
"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Dr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."
The crocodile with the ticking stomach in Peter Pan was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh by eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
Ms Golovko has about as much hope of retrieving her phone as Hook did of retrieving his hand. But she does want to get back the phone's SIM card, which holds her precious photos and contacts.
See video at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/croc-swallows-phone-and-starts-ringing-20110124-1a1lc.html
Croc swallows phone and starts ringing
January 24, 2011 - 10:36AM
Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing.
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like Peter Pan, in which a crocodile happily went "tick-tock" after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: he hasn't eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth when the phone slipped.
"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.
Employees were sceptical when Ms Golovko, a mother in her 20s, told them what happened.
"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said an employee who declined to give her name.
Since then, Gena has been refusing food and has been listless. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader of the group.
"His behaviour has changed," the employee said. "He moves very little and swims much less than he used to."
Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but, while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.
Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile would be taken for an X-ray this week if he continued to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.
"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Dr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."
The crocodile with the ticking stomach in Peter Pan was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh by eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
Ms Golovko has about as much hope of retrieving her phone as Hook did of retrieving his hand. But she does want to get back the phone's SIM card, which holds her precious photos and contacts.
See video at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/croc-swallows-phone-and-starts-ringing-20110124-1a1lc.html
Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing.
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like Peter Pan, in which a crocodile happily went "tick-tock" after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: he hasn't eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth when the phone slipped.
"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.
Employees were sceptical when Ms Golovko, a mother in her 20s, told them what happened.
"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said an employee who declined to give her name.
Since then, Gena has been refusing food and has been listless. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader of the group.
"His behaviour has changed," the employee said. "He moves very little and swims much less than he used to."
Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but, while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.
Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile would be taken for an X-ray this week if he continued to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.
"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Dr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."
The crocodile with the ticking stomach in Peter Pan was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh by eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
Ms Golovko has about as much hope of retrieving her phone as Hook did of retrieving his hand. But she does want to get back the phone's SIM card, which holds her precious photos and contacts.
See video at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/croc-swallows-phone-and-starts-ringing-20110124-1a1lc.html
Friday, July 2, 2010
Chupacabra Devours Rabbits and Cats in Ukraine
http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/30-06-2010/114075-chupacabra-0
Panic over a mysterious creature, which attacks humans and animals, has reached Ukraine’s Kiev. It goes about the so-called Chupacabra, which has been recently spotted in Ukraine’s Lvov, Cherkassk and Kiev regions.
“It ate almost all of my neighbor’s rabbits, and even killed a cat of another neighbor,” a woman named only as Nina, a resident of a village near Kiev said.
Eye-witnesses said that the creature looked like a big dog with huge fiery eyes. The bizarre animal diffused unbearable stench. Village residents also said that the animal was hunting only at night time.
“We stay on duty at night near our rabbits and chickens to protect them. The men decided to kill the creature, but they have not seen it so far,” the woman said.
Chupacabra is no longer a demonic monster of Latin America only. The creature appeared in Russia and Ukraine several years ago. It was terrorizing Western Ukraine in 2009. Local residents would often come across dead bodies of rabbits and chickens. People said that it often attacked pigs and left traces of strong jaws on wooden fences.
When hunting on domestic animals, the creature would penetrate into rabbit and chicken houses, strangle the animals and suck their blood out. It killed nearly 100 rabbits in Ukraine’s Zakarpatskaya region. Local farmers believe that it was a Chupacabra.
The mysterious monster appeared in Russia too. The blood-sucking creature appeared in the Orenburg region of Russia in 2006. Farmers lost dozens of turkeys, sheep and goats. They originally believed that the animals had been killed by bobcats or wolves, but these predators eat prey’s meat, whereas the creature only drank animals’ blood. No one has been able to explain the bizarre deaths of domestic animals.
The Chupacabra, which literally translates from Spanish as ‘goat sucker’, is a phenomenon that appeared in 1995 in the mountains of Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. Physical descriptions of the creature vary. Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1990 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile. It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail. Biologists and wildlife management officials view the chupacabras as a contemporary legend.
A woman, who saw the beast attacking a domestic animal, described the creature as a kangaroo-like monster with furious red eyes. Another eye-witness said that the beast was three or four feet high and had dinosaur-like skin. The animal also had large red eyes, long fangs and spikes on the back of its head and back.
Panic over a mysterious creature, which attacks humans and animals, has reached Ukraine’s Kiev. It goes about the so-called Chupacabra, which has been recently spotted in Ukraine’s Lvov, Cherkassk and Kiev regions.
“It ate almost all of my neighbor’s rabbits, and even killed a cat of another neighbor,” a woman named only as Nina, a resident of a village near Kiev said.
Eye-witnesses said that the creature looked like a big dog with huge fiery eyes. The bizarre animal diffused unbearable stench. Village residents also said that the animal was hunting only at night time.
“We stay on duty at night near our rabbits and chickens to protect them. The men decided to kill the creature, but they have not seen it so far,” the woman said.
Chupacabra is no longer a demonic monster of Latin America only. The creature appeared in Russia and Ukraine several years ago. It was terrorizing Western Ukraine in 2009. Local residents would often come across dead bodies of rabbits and chickens. People said that it often attacked pigs and left traces of strong jaws on wooden fences.
When hunting on domestic animals, the creature would penetrate into rabbit and chicken houses, strangle the animals and suck their blood out. It killed nearly 100 rabbits in Ukraine’s Zakarpatskaya region. Local farmers believe that it was a Chupacabra.
The mysterious monster appeared in Russia too. The blood-sucking creature appeared in the Orenburg region of Russia in 2006. Farmers lost dozens of turkeys, sheep and goats. They originally believed that the animals had been killed by bobcats or wolves, but these predators eat prey’s meat, whereas the creature only drank animals’ blood. No one has been able to explain the bizarre deaths of domestic animals.
The Chupacabra, which literally translates from Spanish as ‘goat sucker’, is a phenomenon that appeared in 1995 in the mountains of Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. Physical descriptions of the creature vary. Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1990 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile. It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail. Biologists and wildlife management officials view the chupacabras as a contemporary legend.
A woman, who saw the beast attacking a domestic animal, described the creature as a kangaroo-like monster with furious red eyes. Another eye-witness said that the beast was three or four feet high and had dinosaur-like skin. The animal also had large red eyes, long fangs and spikes on the back of its head and back.
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