Кургани доби бронзи поблизу с. Володимирівка на Херсонщині.

Abstract

This article deals with materials of excavation of three barrows near Volodymyrivka village, Skadovsk district of Kherson oblast which are published for the first time. These barrows were investigated by the Krasnoznamensk archaeological expedition of the IA NASU in 1986 and 1989 under the direction of G.L. Evdokimov. 47 burials were revealed in three barrows. In the result of the analysis of a funeral ceremony and inventory, seven cultural-chronological groups are distinguished. These groups reflect consecutive stages of settling the territory between the Lower Dniepr (in its eastern bank) and coast of the Black sea during the Bronze and Early Iron Age. Burials of the Bronze Age (from the turn of the Early-Middle Bronze Age to the Late Bronze Age) are the most numerous and represent five groups: the Yamnaya culture of its late period, Catacomb culture of its early and late period (Ingul Culture), Dnieper-Dniester variant of the Dnieper-Prut Babyne culture, Berezhno-Maevka Srubna culture of the Late Bronze Age. Two burials represent the Chernogorovka culture of the turn of the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. The latest burial belongs to the Sarmatian time. Against the general tendencies in the development of steppe Black Sea area cultures, some special traits of a funeral ceremony and ceramic complex of the Early Bronze Age to the turn to Middle Bronze Age are identified. The unity of a funeral ceremony for each of the cultural-chronological groups of burials of the Bronze Age allows the assumption that these are the burial grounds of family-patrimonial collectives.