NEW RESEARCH ON BURIALS OF THE GLOBULAR AMPHORAE CULTURE IN TERNOPIL REGION

Abstract

The article introduces the results of archaeological research in the tombs of the Globular Amphorae culture near the Bilyi Potik and Ozeriany villages of Chortkiv district, Ternopil region (Western Podillia). The description of the archaeological material found during the excavations has been provided.
 Both tombs from Bilyi Potik and Ozeriany differ in number and composition of the buried individuals. All those buried in Bilyi Potik were men. There were two men, two women and a child in Ozeriany. The question of their family relations remains open before additional research. The set of accompanying items is also different: in Bilyi Potik — 10 pots and a lid, two flint axes, a chisel, three knife-like plates, four parts of bone buckles, a bone pricker, two fangs and a small pig bone; in Ozeriany — 11 pots, a lid, one flint ax and two fragments from axes, four amber beads, a half of a bone buckle, three pig tusks and one large bone (part of a leg?) of a cattle (?).
 The pottery also differs in the affinity of the ornaments. The vessels in Bilyi Potik varied by its clay mass (ceramics with chamotte and plant remains predominated, ceramics with predominance of sand admixture was in a smaller amount). The pottery ornamentation was not only with triangles filled with scaly ornamentation, but also with pseudo-cord ornamentation. The bottom of the pots is flat in 8 cases, convex in 2 cases. Pots had two symmetrical handles. In two cases, the engobe is fixed.
 Handmade vessels from the tomb in Ozeriany are mostly made of clay with the addition of a large amount of sand with crushed flint or crushed shell. All pots have a flat bottom, in three cases the pots have two symmetrical handles, one has 4 handles, and one has 4 pseudo handles. Three pots from a ceramic set have no ornamentation. The surface decoration of other pots is more diverse. In addition to the traditional subtriangular ornament with a scaly filling, the pots are decorated with zig-zags, double horizontal and vertical lines, stamped with round teeth, and bands of short vertical and horizontal lines.