Pages: 345-367 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp263345367

The article focuses on sharing and examining excavation finds from mound 1 of the Middle Don burial ground Devitsa-V in the Ostrogozhsk district of the Voronezh region. By studying chronological markers in the grave goods, researchers dated the burial to between the mid and early third quarter of the 4th century BC. This mound was built during the earliest phase of the necropolis, despite being far its center. The funeral customs suggest it followed the traditions of a community that built burial mounds along the Potudan River, a right tributary of the Don. Evidence points to this group being a distinct “clan” within the Middle Don Scythian society, a theory supported by recent paleogenetic research.

Keywords: burial mound, Scythians, Middle Don, Scythian period, funeral rite, material culture

Information about authors:

Aleksandr Shevchenko (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4774-3197

Semyon Volodin (Moscow, Russian Federation). Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-3681-3241