J. Romaniszyn, J. Niebieszczański, M. Cwaliński, V. Rud, Ihor Kochkin, P. Makarowicz
{"title":"Rediscovering a Middle Bronze Age cemetery – the barrow necropolis in Pidhoroddya, Western Ukraine","authors":"J. Romaniszyn, J. Niebieszczański, M. Cwaliński, V. Rud, Ihor Kochkin, P. Makarowicz","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.2873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.2873","url":null,"abstract":"The following article presents the archaeological revaluation of the Middle Bronze Age Komarów culture cemetery of Pidhorodia in Western Ukraine in the Pre-Carpathian region. By examining scarce archival information from the pre-Second World War period, the Polish-Ukrainian research team brought to light evidence of a vast cemetery complex in Pidhorodia, consisting of 39 barrows. The applied combination of archaeological survey, drilling, and magnetometric prospection revealed aspects of the spatial arrangement of the Komarów culture necropolis, as well as details of the funeral architecture, which allowed to associate the burial mounds with the known canon of Komarów culture rites. This study presents the results of the archive query, followed by non-invasive survey, and their potential for revaluating the present state of knowledge regarding this barrow cemetery.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"8 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burials with the ochre of Corded Ware culture in the Upper Dnister region","authors":"Mariia Voitovych","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3440","url":null,"abstract":"Burials with the ochre of the CWC on the territory of the Upper Dnister region, the higher concentration of which was recorded on the territory of the right bank of the Dnister river, within the Drohobych Upland, were considered. It has been established that now about 30 burials were found on this territory, in which this mineral substance was found, evidenced both inside the burials and at the level of the ancient horizon under the barrow mounds. It was observed that the body of the deceased was covered with ochre, or it was placed as separate lumps inside the burial. It is noted that the remains of wooden structures in the form of flooring and ceilings are often present in burials with ochre. It was defined that burials with the ochre of the CWC on the territory of Upper Dnister region date to the period of the first half of the 3rd millennium B. C. and are related to influences from the environment of Yamna culture.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"34 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The historical and cultural heritage of the Bernardin monastery in Dubno","authors":"N. Bulyk, R.Ya. Berest","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"96 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Following the traces of the earliest Corded Ware in Moravia and steppe elements in its content","authors":"Jaroslav Peška","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3506","url":null,"abstract":"The earliest Corded Ware is very poorly represented in Moravia (several type A, Moravian-type, hammer-axes, settlements with the so-called Wellenleistentöpfe: Olomouc-Slavonín, Horní lán) and the situation is not much better even in the earlier Moravian Corded Ware Culture (MCWC) period (the Palonín settlement, graves at: Dub nad Moravou, Hradisko u Kroměříže, Němetice). Among the local MCWC (over 90%; 2700/2600 2400/2200 calBC) we find a number of components linking this to Eastern Europe both in the burial ritual (grooves around graves, internal construction, burials in the frog position, graves of metallurgists) and in the material content (daggers/razors with a tang, hammer-shaped pins, a beaker decorated with a cord and a fishbone motif) with numerous analogues in the Yamna and Catacombna cultures of the Carpathian, Balkan and northern Pontus. Most surprising is a group of MCWC graves with grooves at the bottom, interpreted as burials on all-wood four-wheeled ceremonial wagons with direct counterparts in the Maikop, Yamna, and Catacombna cultures of eastern Europe.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"26 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dmytro Kiosak, Valentin A. Dergaciov, Soenke Szidat, Willy Tinner
{"title":"New radiocarbon dates for the Criş site of Sacarovca I (Moldova)","authors":"Dmytro Kiosak, Valentin A. Dergaciov, Soenke Szidat, Willy Tinner","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3212","url":null,"abstract":"Four new AMS radiocarbon dates shed new light on the chronology of one of the easternmost sites of the Criş culture. The conventional dating efforts had yielded indecisive results, while the new results correspond well to the typo-chronological position of the site (Criş IV) and the chronology of other sites with similar finds. The comparison with the nearby para-Neolithic sites demonstrated that the establishment of the para Neolithic way of life (foragers equipped with pottery) in the region happened several centuries before the spread of early farmers of the Criş culture into Moldova.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"13 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Kiev to Pereyaslavets (Πρεσθλαβίτζα). The early medieval stone egg imitations and glazed Easter egg rattles from Dobrudja, Romania.","authors":"Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski, Aurel-Daniel Stănică","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3394","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the finds of glazed egg-shaped rattles as well as on egg imitations of chalk and of Romanbricks discovered in Dobrudja and in nearby Varna. It is assumed that they were used in magical and religiousrituals connected with fertility and vegetation cults, as well as in apotropaic and healing rites. Chalk imitations dated prevailingly to the 10th century could be relics of a local Christian-pagan syncretism. Glazed items were most probably imports from Kyiv workshops in Kyivan Rus’. The latter should be associated with the presence of people engaging in military operations led by Rus’ princes, namely mercenaries and even more probably, with merchants travelling along the waterways leading from the Varangians to the Greeks. This route was most intensively exploited in the time from the middle of the 10th to the middle of the of 11th century, which correlates with the chronology of the layers and graves where these glazed eggs were discovered, their dating points mainly being to the 11th century.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kośko, Klochko Viktor I., Potupchyk Mikhailo, P. Włodarczak, Żurkiewicz Danuta
{"title":"Yampil barrows from the fourth and IIIrd millenium BC in the light of Polish-Ukrainian investigations 2010-2014","authors":"A. Kośko, Klochko Viktor I., Potupchyk Mikhailo, P. Włodarczak, Żurkiewicz Danuta","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3605","url":null,"abstract":"In the vicinity of Yampil (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine), there exists a cluster of barrows dating back to the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Nestled upon the Podillia Upland, this concentration lies at the crossroads of two cultural spheres: the Eastern European steppe and Central European. The exploration of the Yampil barrows began during the 1980s by archaeologists from Vinnytsia. This endeavor was enriched by a Polish-Ukrainian expedition that conducted fieldwork from 2010 to 2014. Seven barrows were then examined. Today, an abundance of radiocarbon data empowers us to construct a precise chronological framework for the Yampil barrow graves. We can now discern four principal stages in this sequence: (1) late Eneolithic, (2) early Yamna, (3) late Yamna era, and (4) Catacombna. During the first two periods (3350-2800 calBC), these barrows were meticulously constructed, sometimes evolving in multiple phases. In the latter two stages (2800-2400 calBC), cemeteries took shape, marked by graves thoughtfully dug into the fully formed mounds.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"48 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139006872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second life of damaged things: repairing and modifying jewellery from the Crimea in the Sarmatian period","authors":"Beata Polit","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3197","url":null,"abstract":"Crimean jewellery from the Sarmatian period (2nd century BC – 4th century AD) includes a small but interesting group of adornments with traces of damage and repair. These artefacts were elements of grave inventories of the people of the Late Scythian and Sarmatian cultures – deposited exclusively in female and child graves. Most of the repaired personal ornaments are earrings and bracelets. Their quality is usually very low. The existence of repairs made jewellery look less attractive and they were limited to modifications allowing their owners to use such adornments again. The general quality of the repairs seems to indicate that they were performed by peoplelacking expert knowledge of jewellery making.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"28 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intrusions of the steppe population into the Balkan-Carpathian region in the Early Bronze Age: factors and aspects","authors":"S. Ivanova","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3438","url":null,"abstract":"The Budzhak culture of the Northwest Pontic region is a part of the Yamna cultural-historical area. Its social hierarchy and the identification of “ritual groups” within it provide important evidence when considering intrusions of the steppe population into the Balkan-Carpathian region. Certain elite grave goods are often associated with individuals buried in certain positions that allow the identification of “ritual groups”. One of these is characterized by supine inhumation with flexed legs, arms stretched along the body. These had high social status in the context of the Budzhak culture and they are the ones that were widespread in Europe. In addition to the well-known Danubian route, other paths from the steppe to the west can be considered (Carpathian-Transylvanian and Prut-Dnistr routes). The principal aim of the movement to the west was probably to obtain metals, which could be exchanged for salt from the estuaries of the Northwest Pontic area.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"13 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Szmyt, P. Włodarczak, I. Hildebrandt‐Radke, M. Potupchyk, M. Przybyła, V. Rud, Oleksandr Shelekhan, A. Szczepanek, D. Żurkiewicz, Marcin Ławniczak, Michał Podsiadło
{"title":"Barrows in the forest-steppe between the Dniester and Southern Bug, Ukraine. Initial results of comprehensive research","authors":"M. Szmyt, P. Włodarczak, I. Hildebrandt‐Radke, M. Potupchyk, M. Przybyła, V. Rud, Oleksandr Shelekhan, A. Szczepanek, D. Żurkiewicz, Marcin Ławniczak, Michał Podsiadło","doi":"10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/75.2023.1.3535","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the preliminary results of research by a Polish-Ukrainian team who in 2018-2023 worked on the project of comprehensive exploration of barrows situated in the forest-steppe between the Southern Bug and Dniester in modern Ukraine. There, two major stages of erecting and using barrows were distinguished for the 3rd and 1st millennia BC. Two barrows discussed herein, explored as part of the project, were erected in the second stage. Barrow 3 in Ivanivtsi-Antonivka can be dated to the second half of the 10th – first half of the 8th century BC, whereas Barrow 6 in Sloboda Noskovetska to the late 8th – early 7th century BC. The older one was erected and then used by communities related to the early period of the Chornolis culture. The younger one is at present one of the main pre-Scythian complexes of eastern Podillia. The multi-component set of artefacts deposited under its mound represents a mixture of the Chornolis culture, Basarabi-Şoldăneşti influences and impact of early steppe nomads (Cimmerians?). It illustrates well a complex cultural mosaic found in the forest-steppe between the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers.","PeriodicalId":37678,"journal":{"name":"Sprawozdania Archeologiczne","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}