KIEV, UKRAINE—Tech Times reports that the remains of a two-story building surrounded by a galleried courtyard have been found in a prehistoric settlement of more than 1,200 buildings near Nebelivka. The 6,000-year-old building, whose upper floor had been divided into five rooms decorated with red paint, is thought to have been a temple of the Trypillian culture, and contained fragments of human figurines. Eight clay platforms that may have been used as altars were also discovered, including one on the upper floor that contained “numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice,” Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko of the Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, wrote in a paper that they presented at the European Association of Archaeologists’ annual meeting in Istanbul. Pottery fragments and animal bones were also found in the courtyard. Small ornaments of bone and gold may have been worn in the hair. To hear a prehistoric language that may have been spoken in Ukraine around this time, see "Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European."
