Pages: 505-517

This article is in Russian
An interested reader is offered a plot highlighting the experience of using cartography as a research method. An electronic cartographic database of one of the three cultures of the Babino Cultural Circle — the Dnieper-Don Babino culture (DDBC), was used as a source. It includes information on 1271 burials from 654 burial mounds. Based on the methods of comparative stratigraphy and correlation, a five-stage periodization scheme was constructed for DDBC. Chronological markers of the funerary rite and inventory were identified, especially numerous for the early period. Separate mapping of these markers showed that the range of DDBC was not static, but was characterized by clear chronological dynamics, synchronous with the periodization of DDBC: the cultural area first gradually expanded, and then gradually decreased. This finding was confirmed by multi-level cross-validation at the intracultural and intercultural levels. As a result, cartography has become an additional, and sometimes independent, method for determining and clarifying the relative chronology of burial complexes, based on an assessment of their localization within the chronologically differentiated zones of the DDBC area.

Keywords: Eastern Europe, Bronze Age, Dnieper-Don Babino Culture, cartography, chronology

Information about author:

Roman Lytvynenko (Vinnytsia, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. 600-richya St., 21, Vinnytsia, 21021, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-2034-4305