Pages: 237-246

The article publishes new burial complexes of the Late Copper Age. They were located near the villages of Sychavka and Vapnyarka of the Odessa area. Stone structures and the burial of the Bessarabian variant of the Cernavoda I culture (Khadzhider type) were uncovered in a tumulus near Sychavka. Two Copper Age burials were investigated near Vapnyarka. One of them was destroyed whereas the other contained a skeleton in the extended position.

Keywords: North-West Pontic region, Late Copper Age, Cernavoda I culture, Khadzhider type, extended burial, radiocarbon dates.

Information about authors:

Svetlana Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of historical sciences. Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
E-mail: [email protected]

Igor Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova). Doctor of history. High Anthropological School.
E-mail: [email protected]