One of the authors who discovered the "Amur" ceramics to the world was the famous "field" academician, archaeologist Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikov. Even before the Great Patriotic War, Okladnikov conducted dozens of expeditions and made such an extensive layer of archaeological discoveries, which afterwards was occupied by a whole army of archaeologists and historians.
But today I will tell you about the unique "Amur Masks" - fragments of painted ceramic vessels found in the vast territories of the Amur River, dated by radiocarbon analysis to about 4500, i.e. they were created at the same time as the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
One of the * Ascension * or * Amur * masks, found near the village of Voznesenskoye (end of the 3rd millennium BC)
Look closely! These are not Greek shards or pottery specimens from the Middle East. This is what the tribes inhabiting the banks of the Amur did more than four thousand years ago.
Moreover, fragments of such red ceramic vessels were found in vast territories, 600 kilometers from each other on the banks of the Amur.
Scientists attribute the people who made these pottery works of art to the Lower Amur culture - one of the oldest Neolithic cultures in the world.
Partially restored vessel of * Amur * ceramics.
Judging by the data of many excavations, the Neolithic people mastered the territory in the lower reaches of the Amur about 10,000 thousand years ago and occupied this territory for several millennia, successfully developed, hunted for fishing, gathering, possibly primitive agriculture and led a sedentary lifestyle.
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Fragments of red pottery with circles from Subbotino (Nikolaevsk on the Amur).
Amur ceramics have their own unique style: “Amur braid”, representing a grid of indented rhombuses, “Amur spiral”, but the most amazing imagination are “Amur masks”, faces with round or teardrop-shaped eyes, a heart-shaped face on a bright red background. Nobody did anything like that!
* Amur mask * with a voluminous nose and engraving (end of the 3rd millennium BC)
Amur ceramics have their own unique style: “Amur braid”, representing a grid of indented rhombuses, “Amur spiral”, but the most amazing imagination are “Amur masks”, faces with round or teardrop-shaped eyes, a heart-shaped face on a bright red background. Nobody did anything like that!
Sinker stonefish, neolithic craftsmanship.
People who inhabited the lower reaches of the Amur in those days made even utilitarian rather than cult objects beautiful, for example, such stone weights, which archaeologists called "Amur water", they were used for fishing.
After that, it becomes embarrassing to think that there was no civilization on the territory of Russia in ancient times, there was, but we know too little about it, and do we want to know?
