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ARCHAEOLOGICAL activities in Russian territory, in which the work of the Historical Museum of Moscow has been reinforced by the co-operation, financial and other, of museum authorities in the United States, have produced results of no little historical importance. Archaeologists on the staffs of the various Russian museums are now engaged, according to a report from the Moscow correspondent of the Observer in the issue of October 27, in examining material brought in by expeditions to the Crimea, Kazakstan in Central Asia, the Georgian Republic in the Caucasus and the Ural Province. From the Crimea comes further evidence relating to Neanderthal man in the form of stone implements from a settlement site not a cave on the Katcha River, while in the neighbouring village of Pychka rock-paintings in red, depicting battle scenes, were discovered, which are attributed to a pre-Scythic culture of the third millennium B.C. The expedition of the Historical Museum to Kazakstan was occupied in excavating a site of the Bronze Age, on which a communal hut, measuring twenty-five metres in length, has been uncovered, as well as an altar about which were the charred bones of domestic animals, vessels containing the remains of food and bone cubes, which are said to resemble modern dice. In the Caucasus, cave deposits were examined, which yielded a number of flint implements of the palaeolithic age.
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Archæological Investigation under the Soviets. Nature 136, 714 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136714a0
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