Pages: 233-250

The article presents the results of the latest discoveries that have been made in recent years in south-eastern Poland. In the vicinity of the town of Chotyniec (6 km away from the current Polish-Ukrainian border), a cluster of the early Iron Age sites was identified. It can be associated with the forest-steppe variant of the Scythian cultural circle. Its central part is a hillfort (Chotyniec 1), where the so-called “zolnik” (cult area) was excavated. It contained interesting material — bronze arrow heads and pins, fragments of golden objects, fragments of Greek wine amphorae and a large series of handmade ceramics, analogous to those found in many forest-steppe groups from 7th—5th century BC. The hillfort is surrounded with settlement sites with the same set of objects. This interesting cluster was identified as the Chotyniec agglomeration. It is a new, the farthest north-western enclave of the Scythian world. The article contains a preliminary assessment of discoveries in the context of territorial and chronological relations with other cultural groupings of the early Iron Age.

Keywords: Southeastern Poland, Chotyniec, Early Iron Age, Scythia, cultural relationships

Information about authors:

Sylwester Czopek (Rzeszów, Poland). Doctor Habilitat of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts. University of Rzeszów, Institute of Archaeology. Moniuszko St., 10, Rzeszów, 35-015, Poland
E-mail: [email protected]
Katarzyna Trybała-Zawiślak (Rzeszów, Poland). Doctor in Archaeology. University of Rzeszów, Institute of Archaeology. Moniuszko St., 10, Rzeszów, 35-015, Poland
E-mail: [email protected]
Tomasz Tokarczyk (Rzeszów, Poland). Master. University of Rzeszów, Institute of Archaeology. Moniuszko St., 10, Rzeszów, 35-015, Poland
E-mail: [email protected]