By RIA Novosti
Khabarovsk (Russia) : A 15,000-year-old hunters’ camp site has been found near Lake Evoron in the Far East region of Russia, a Khabarovsk archaeology museum official said Monday.
“The site dates back to the end of the Ice Age, a period which is poorly studied” Andrei Malyavin, chief of the museum’s archaeology department said. “That is why any new site from this period is a discovery in itself.”
According to Malyavin, the site was found during a 2007 archaeological expedition to Lake Evoron. It is the largest of four Stone Age sites, discovered near the Amur River so far, and was most likely established by mammoth hunters, he said.
“We came to this conclusion after studying flint pikes, arrowheads and a stone scraper,” the official said, adding that a comprehensive archaeological excavation could take a couple of years.
In 2006, archaeologists discovered an Iron Age burial mound around 2,500 years old containing a unique fragment from an iron dagger.