Vasily Gorodtsov and his burials scheme of the Bronze age (to the 120th anniversary of the discovery)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2023-5-54-75
Abstract
Aim. The aim of this paper is to highlight the history of the discovery made by V. A. Gorodtsov in 1903 as a result of archaeological research in Bakhmut district of Ekaterinoslav province in 1901 and 1903.
Procedure and methods. On the basis of comparative and typological methods with the use of mathematical statistics, the paper reveals the path the researcher followed.
Results. Without diminishing the role and denying the importance of the discovery, the author critically approaches to the assessment of methods and results of archaeological excavations conducted by V. A. Gorodtsov in the early XX century.
Research implications. In the process of studying the available materials, it was possible to show that the general level of development of archaeological science of that time limited the researcher and did not allow him to achieve even more important results. Therefore, V. A. Gorodtsov, being close to isolating a special group of funeral monuments in wooden frame structures, eventually combined them with burials in wooden log houses. And only 70 years later, this special group was defined as belonging to Multi-cordoned ware culture, which occupied an intermediate place between the Catacomb and Timber-grave cultures in the “triad” of V. A. Gorodtsov.
About the Author
I. Pyslaru
“Callatis” Archaeological museum
Romania
Romania
Ion Pyslaru – expert archaeologist
Konstantsy shosse 23, Mangalia 905500
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