Pages: 127-174

The article deals with materials from 12 tumuli excavated in the Western Azov Sea Area near the village of Novoye (Zaporozhye, Ukraine). There were three functional phases of this cemetery. The first phase dates back to the Bronze Age. The second phase is dated by the Scythian period. Armaments present in the majority of the Scythian graves, both male and female, prove that warfare used to be an everyday pastime of the local population. The third phase belongs to the early Middle Ages.

Keywords: Western Azov area, Scythians, burial rites

Information about authors:

Yurii Boltryk (Kiev, Ukraine). Candidate of historical sciences. Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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Elena Fialko (Kiev, Ukraine). Candidate of historical sciences. Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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