Archaeological research in our region has been conducted for over a hundred years. Various archaeological sites have been recorded in almost every settlement, which is why Bukovyna is rightly considered an archaeological treasure trove of Ukraine.’

Materials from archaeological research have been reflected in scientific articles and monographs, textbooks on the history of Ukraine and Europe in general, but original artifacts can only be seen in the exhibition of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The most significant archaeological discoveries include:

• remains of one of the oldest artificial dwellings in Europe, recorded at the Middle Palaeolithic site Molodove I;
• the oldest wind musical instruments in Eastern Europe – the so-called flutes – from the Molodove V site;
• Balamutivka Cave with unique rock paintings from the Final Palaeolithic – Mesolithic periods;
• settlements of the Trypillian culture in Lenkivtsi, Shypyntsi, Polyvanyi Yar, Konivka, which allowed for clarification of the chronology and periodization of Eneolithic antiquities;
• hoards of bronze artifacts from Korovia, Voloka, and Moshaniets;
• the only known glassmaking centre outside the Roman Empire from the 3rd–5th centuries AD in Komariv;
• a spearhead with silver inlay in the form of tamgas from Nedoboyivtsi, testifying to Sarmatian-Gothic relations in the 2nd century AD;
• settlements of the Prague culture in Kodyn and Rashkiv, which made it possible to trace the autochthony of Slavs in the region from the Early Middle Ages;
• Vasyliv white-stone church – the southernmost stone Christian religious building of the Galicia-Volhynia Principality.

This is by no means a complete list of antiquities that can be learned about in the exhibition of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore, and where original artifacts from various eras can also be viewed.