The new investigations of the Barmaky site in Northwestern Ukraine, 2018-2020 field campaigns

The Upper Paleolithic site of Barmaky is located on the Volhynian loess plateau, the eastern outskirts of the Rivne city. The site is situated on the western gentle slope of a low cape of the left bank of the river Ustya which is a tributary of the Goryn River (left tributary of the Pripyat River, Dnieper basin). The Barmaky site was discovered in 1981 and excavated until 2007. The total excavated area composes 217 sq. m. Last three years, it has being studied by the international expedition from the Institute of Archeology, Kyiv and the University of Erlangen and Nuremberg in the frames of the DFG grant #392605832