Pages:  269-292 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp252269292

The article publishes for the first time the Late Bronze Age graves from barrow 1 of the Kotlovina cemetery, Reni district of the Odessa region. The peculiarities of the funerary rite and the grave goods of burials allow us to attribute them to the Dnieper-Prut Babino culture. Two graves, Kotlovina 1/3 and 1/5, contained round buckles with large central and small lateral holes and a rim around the central hole, carved from marbled limestone. These buckles find direct analogies in a series of graves of the Babino cultural circle on the left bank of the Lower Danube and the adjacent territories of the Danube-Dniester interfluve (Vishnevoe V 11/1, 18/2; Kochkovatoe 28/2; Limanskoe/Frikatsey 1/9). In addition, the article considers six burials with stone buckles found at the Brail/Brailica cemetery in Romania, which Romanian researchers mistakenly attributed to various cultures of the Early Bronze Age. The authors concluded that stone buckles are a local feature of the material culture of the Dnieper-Prut Babino culture of the Lower Danube region.

Keywords: North-West Black Sea region, Lower Danube region, Late Bronze Age, Babino cultural circle, stone buckles

Information about authors:

Mihail Fokeev (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences.
E-mail: [email protected]

Sergey Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko. Pokrovskaia St., 128, Tiraspol, 3300, Moldova
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6030-9390

Dmitriy Patkevich (Tiraspol, Moldova). Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko. Pokrovskaia St., 128, Tiraspol, 3300, Moldova
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0009-0007-6936-5533