ЛИВЕНЦОВСКАЯ И КАРАТАЕВСКАЯ КРЕПОСТИ: ЛИНИИ СИНХРОНИЗАЦИИ С ПАМЯТНИКАМИ СЕВЕРНОГО КАВКАЗА И СЕВЕРНОГО ПРИЧЕРНОМОРЬЯ

Abstract

The article presents the result of a comparative analysis of the materials of the kamensko-liventsovskaya group of monuments the final of Middle Bronze Age. The discovery of Liven-tsovskaya and Karataevskaya fortresses in the lower reaches of the Don in the 1960s by S.N. Bratchenko allowed a new look at the antiquities of the final of Middle Bronze Age. The two forti-fications, situated on the right bank of the Mertvyi Donets river, are a single defensive complex. When comparing the Lower Don fortress materials with finds from the Kamenka settlement in the Eastern Crimea, S.N. Bratchenko came to the conclusion that they differ from other synchronous phenomena. As a result, the scientist distinguishes these monuments into a separate culture – the kamensko-liventsovskaya group. Similar materials were also found in the settlement and burial complexes of the North Caucasus. The discovery of new monuments of the final of Middle Bronze Age in the Northern Black Sea area and the North Caucasus made it possible to consider the ka-mensko-liventsovskaya monuments differently in the general interconnection of the post-Cathacombian cultures. On the basis of comparative and comparative method similar to the ka-mensko-liventsovskaya materials are given and as a consequence the reconstruction of possible contacts between the territories of the Lower Don – Northern Black Sea Region – Northern Cauca-sus.