SINGLE FUNERAL MOUND OF THE BRONZE AGE NEAR GONCHAROVKA VILLAGE ON THE SEVERSKY DONETS BASIN (EXCAVATION MATERIALS 1988)

Abstract

Aim. Cultural and chronological analysis of the burial complexes of a single badly destroyed mound near Goncharovka village on the right bank of the Krasnaya river in the Middle Podontsovye. Methodology. The article provides a cultural and chronological analysis of the corpus of the identified burial complexes. Using the comparative typological method and analogies, the funeral rite, material complexes kurgan stratigraphy and relative chronology are analyzed. Results. As the result of the research, it was established that most of the burial belong to the middle and late periods of the Bronze Age. Probably one complex dates from the Early Bronze Age. The performed analysis of the stratigraphy allows us to assume the initial existence of two independent burial mound belonging to burials of different periods. Research implications. The article introduces new Bronze Age materials of the Don-Donets region into scientific circulation. Extraordinary situations encountered in the funeral mound make it possible to introduce new ideas about the complex burial rituals of the ancient population.