Pages: 337-360 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp232337360
In 2020, in the area of the village of Kayry (~ 65—70 km to NE from Odessa), one barrow was excavated, in which 15 graves were discovered. The earliest burials were 4 burials of the Yamnaya culture. One of them (the central grave) was accompanied by several processed stones (stelae). Two graves belonged to the Catacomb culture of different variants, or cultures (Ingul, for sure, and Donetsk, perhaps). In one grave (plundered) there was a vessel of Berezhnovsko-Mayevsky Srubnaya culture. Two graves of the Early Iron Age are the latest ones. One of them belonged to the Scythian culture (6th—5th centuries BC), the other — to the era of Late Nomads (11th—12th centuries AD). The construction of a medieval grave destroyed the central burial of the Yamnaya culture. In turn, the medieval tomb was looted.
Almost all burials of the Bronze Age were built by the using of stone slabs. In the burials of the Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, these were massive slabs that covered the grave pit (or catacomb).
Keywords: barrow, stone slabs, Bronze Age, graves, Yamnaya culture, catacomb
Information about authors:
Igor Bruyako (Odessa, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Odessa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Lanzheronovskaya St., 4, Odessa, 65026, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6359-2806
Blagoje Govedarica (Berlin, Germany). Doctor Habilitat. German Archaeological Institute, Eurasian Department. Im Dol 2-6, Haus II, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Svend Hansen (Berlin, Germany). Doctor Habilitat. German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department. Im Dol 2-6, Haus II, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6714-4629
Elena Sekerskaya (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences. South Ukraine Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky. Staroportofrankovskaya St., 26, Odessa, 65020, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4540-3308