Gagarino

An Upper Palaeolithic site in the Don River basin in European Russia. The artifacts, including shouldered points and Venus figurines have been assigned to the Kostenki-Willendorf culture or the Eastern Gravettian as the dates are 30,000-21,800 bp. The people were mammoth hunters who also carved bone and ivory.

A late Palaeolithic site in the Don basin of European Russia. Mammoth hunters of this Kostenkian or east Gravet-tian group carved bone and ivory copiously, including female figurines of the ‘Venus’ type. Huts were also discovered.