The second map from 3,000 B.C. is from Malikop, Kuban Region

The second map from 3,000 B.C. is from Malikop, Kuban Region which is Ukrainian ethnographic territory but outside Ukraine. From the book Ancient Inventions.

Cooking is essential to make food palatable. The oldest known primitive, but identifiable, ovens were found in Ukraine and date from 20,000 B.C. (p. 302). James and Thorpe mention in passing on p. 328 that "the first of the famous Viennese coffee houses was opened in 1683, using sacks of coffee left behind by the Ottoman Turks after their unsuccessful siege of Vienna in that year." What they don't mention is that the sacks were given as a reward to the hero of Vienna, the Ukrainian Cossack Georg Kolschitzky (Yuri Kulchytsky), who opened the Blue Bottle Coffee House on Singerstrasse in Vienna.

The oldest known house in the world is a remarkable dwelling found at Mezhirich, near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was found in 1965 by a Ukrainian farmer who was digging a new cellar six feet below his home. It is made of mammoth bones and was built about 15,000 years ago. It formed part of a village and was so strongly built that it would have lasted several generations. This would indicate that the inhabitants were settled agriculturalists rather than nomad hunters. In Kostienki, Ukraine, there was a huge house from the same period which measured 115 feet by 50 feet with elevn hearths for cooking, warmth and light (p. 434-35).

The earliest known musical instruments, according to some scholars also were found in Mezhirich. They were made of decorated mammoth bones. A mammoth skull was used as a kind of drum-like instrument. The Scythians of Ukraine some 2,500 years ago used the bones of eagles and vultures to make excellent flutes.

Jewelry was used by the Stone Age hunters of Europe and Asia by 30,000 B.C. A bracelet carved from a single piece of mammoth ivory found at Mezin, Ukraine (not southern Russia as James and Thorpe say) has a magnificent design which can be found to this day in the embroidery of Ukrainian costumes and cloths. This bracelet dates from about 20,000 B.C. and the design is reminiscent of, but predates, the famous Greek meander (p. 283).