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Fibulae of The Period From The 5th To TH
Fibulae of The Period From The 5th To TH
INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
BOOK OF PAPERS FROM
UKRAINIAN JOURNAL ARKHEOLOHIIA
UKRAINIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
20142015
CONTENTS
3
Articles
Palaeolithic
20
Neolithic cultures
25
37
Scythian period
43
56
72
78
Publications of Material
94
101
History of science
Preface
The offered edition covers the most urgent problems of modern Ukrainian archaeology. It is composed from materials published in the Arkheolohia magazine in 20142015, and in other books
of papers that came out during that period. The structure of the book of papers Archaeology
20142015 was created on the principles of the main archaeological magazine of Ukraine.
In the Articles section there are chronologically placed the studies of the major problems of
the Palaeolithic, Bronze and Early Iron ages, Antiquity, Eastern Slavs and Kievan Rus. In the section that deals with the publication of the latest researches to the first place was put rare archaeological finds of recent years: the results of the joint researches with new non-destructive methods
of trypillia giant settlement Maidanetske with British scientists; a unique stele from Khortytsia of
Early-Scythian time with the Cimmerian necklace-hryvnia; arms collection of the early Middle
Ages. In modern European archaeology there are rapidly developing studies of ancient production. That area has always been priority in the Ukrainian archaeology too. In The ancient craft
section, which covers the studies and reconstructions of old productions, the main focus is on the
materials from the recently founded production center on the Berezan island (ancient Greek Borysthenes). Its a pottery workshop, in the hearths of which ceramic products are fixed consignment of lamps, pots, bowls, pots with stripe pattern. Notably, most of the imported Ionian
ceramics of the 7th6th c. BC was produced in the workshops of the settlement on the Berezan
island. In the History of Science section there are examined biographies of prominent archaeologists who have made a significant contribution to science: researcher of the Southern Ukraine
Ernst von Stern; founder of the Kherson Regional Museum V.I. Hoshkevych, and also functioning of the anthropology and prehistory study group of F. Vovk.
The authors in the edition are researchers from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporozhzhia, Poltava, Kherson, Volyn, Ternopil, Lviv, and Donetsk regions.
The edition is aimed at acquaintance of English-speaking readers with the latest achievements
of Ukrainian archaeology.
Ya.V. Volodarets-Urbanovych
FIBULAE OF THE PERIOD FROM THE 5th TO THE FIRST HALF OF THE 8th
CENTURIES FROM POLTAVA REGION (Findings of the Early 2000-ies)
Fibulae of the Early Medieval period from the
south of Eastern Europe were always in the centre
of scholars attention. That fact caused special interest in the new finds. For instance, fibulae were
found on the territory of Poltava Region near the
villages of Malyi Viazovok, Pavlivka, Shediieve (2
items), Zasullia-Mhar (3 items), Batky, and Kovali (2 items) (fig. 1). These are analyzed in the
article.
The finding of complicated anthropomorphous fibula at Malyi Viazovok (fig. 1, 1) belongs to
Prykhodniuk/type VI or Rodnikova/ type II.2.
Its analogies come from Pastyrske hill-fort, as well
as from series of sites in the Dnipro River middle and left bank regions (Trostianets, Dezhky
(Deshky), Tymchenky (Tarantsevo tract), Liubivka (farmstead Lisovskyi), Steblevo, Cherkasy and
Chygyrynskyi district, southern Kyiv province and
Kochetokskyi cemetery (Sorokov ravine tract)).
The finding of a simple anthropomorphous fibula from Pavlivka (fig. 1, 2) belongs to Rodnikova/type I.2.A. That items direct analogies are not
found. By the form closest fibulae were found at
Penkivka culture sites of the Dnipro River middle region and Nadporizhzhia (Kyzlevyi island,
Zhuravka Vilshanska, Raiky, Khmilna, PostavMuky, Hryhorivka), in the hoards of the first group
(Kurylivka), according to O.A. Shcheglova, and at
the burial grounds of the lower layer type at SuukSu (Skeliaste, tomb 406, Luchyste, tomb 268 and
65, burial 3) in the Crimea.
One of the finds from Shediieve (fig. 1, 3) belongs
to the fibulae with a border of birds heads, subtype
of seven-headed, series and a Maiorka variant, according to V.Ye. Rodnikova. Analogous items come
from Maiorka gully, Koziivka-Nova Odesa hoard,
and from Kuzmynkskyi burial ground. It is impossible to determine the type of the other radiate-headed fibula (fig. 1, 4), because its too fragmentary.
One of three fibulae from Zasullia-Mhar (fig. 1,
5) belongs to simple anthropo- and zoomorphous
items, Rodnikova/type I.2. Its analogies come
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Fig. 1. Fibulae of the 5th to the first half of the 8th c. from Poltava region: 1 Malyi Viazovok; 2 Pavlivka; 34 Shediieve; 57 Zasullia-Mhar; 8 Batky; 910 Kovali
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