“We discovered burials of people covered with ocher belonging to the catacomb culture. This is about the end of III - the beginning of II millennium BC The oldest period in the development of the population in Crimea, when ceramics and various bronze tools were actively used, ”TASS quoted Irina Rukavishnikova, researcher at the Scythian-Sarmatian archeology department of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
It is noted that experts excavated the mound in the area of the village of Orekhovka, Kirovsky district of Crimea.
Earlier it was reported that during the construction of the Tavrida track, bones of a giant fossil bird weighing up to 450 kg were found in a Crimean cave.