Notes on the Unique Ocher Drawing Discovered at the Mezhyrich Paleolithic Site in Ukraine

New Interpretation of the Engraving Discovered at Mezhirich Upper Paleolithic Site

“…Actually it is a part of the faç ade which has four "module elements" of the facing of the dwellings "basement"each element represented the "herringbone" made of the lower jaws of mammoths that were topped by the mammoth's skull. In line with the dwellings' round layout, the "module element" was perceived frontally, but there might have also been the occurrence of the "quaternary code" [7].…”

“…Taking into account the opinion that the Vshaped jaws were associated with the "opened triangle [7] as the expression of the woman, we can suggest that the "module element" consisting of lower jaws inserted into each other with the skull of the mammoth on the top, i.e. "entering into them" is first of all the symbol of the act of copulation 4 , as it is also might have been reproduced on the drawing of the first dwelling of the considered engraving (see above).…”

“…But as per the reconstruction of the dwelling offered by Pidoplichko, mammoths' skulls were inserted by their back sides into the "herringbones" constructed from lower jaws of mammoths. The engraving of a mammoth applied on the mammoth's skull that was discovered in the first dwelling, was implemented in the similar waystylized head of the mammoth was placed on the protruding Vshaped cape of the nose holes of the mammoth [7]. And if to consider the engraving on the plate, the circle also "enters" the V-shaped element.…”