scholarly journals INVESTIGATION OF THE POROSSYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IA NAS OF UKRAINE (2011—2016)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
A. V. Borysov
Keyword(s):  
Route Planning ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Junior Research ◽  
Important Direction ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The Porossya archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (PorAE) is part of the research project about the Old Rus Porossay. The project is realizing in the Department of Old Rus and Medieval Archeology of the IA NAS of Ukraine. First Porossya archaeological expedition started on August 9, 1945. In 2011 it was renewed. Investigations are carried out on the territory of the South of Medieval Kyiv Region. Special attention in research activity is focused on surveys of archeological monuments and their documentation. The basis of the expedition is the annual work within the framework of the research topic of the Department of Old Rus and Medieval Archeology of the IA NAS of Ukraine. The head of the expedition is Artem Borysov, the junior research fellow of the department. The model for the expedition is the organizational structure of multi-year survey expeditions, in particular, the Ovruch / East-Volyn archaeological expedition of the IA NAS of Ukraine (leaded by A. Tomashevsky and S. Pavlenko) and Cherkassy Forest-steppe archaeological expedition (leaded by M. Syvolap). Field route planning and tasks are related to the program for collecting and analyzing the source base and for recording and mapping of the archaeological sites of Porossay. By 2017, the expedition surveyed 160 archeological monuments of different chronological periodss. The work of the expedition is aimed at a systematic, full-scale survey of Old Rus monuments in river Ros basin and adjacent territories. An important direction of the expedition is the multy-season study of certain micro-regions (the Nehvoroshch basin, the vicinity of chronicle Torchskye). Such areas are gradually approaching the level of continuous inspection of the territory. In total, during the 10 seasons, participents of the Porossya archaeological expedition surveyed 267 archaeological sites (including 22 settlements), 118 mounds in 20 burial groups and 9 separate burial mounds. The tradition of archeological exploration in Porossya is related to the names of V. Dovzhenko, M. Kuchera, L. Ivanchenko. The work of the expeditions on the study of the settlements of the Kyiv region and the Zmiyiv shaft (leaded by M. Kuchera) and the detachments of the Dnieper Ancient Expedition (leaded by O. Mitsev, L. Ivanchenko) allowed to create a basic map of monuments for this territory in the time of Old Rus.

scholarly journals POLE-TOPS OF CHMYREVA MOHYLA BARROW

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Z. H. Popandopulo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Burial Mound ◽  
World War ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
River Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In 1977 on the site of famous burial mound Chmyrеva Mohyla located on the northern outskirts of Velyka Bilozerka village of Zaporizhzhia region three bronze pole-tops with images of gryphons were found by local people on the plowed field. There is no evidence whether other artifacts have been found. Luckily nearby in Gunovka village the expedition of Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was working under the leadership of Yu. V. Boltryk who got the founded artifacts and then sent them to Zaporizhzhia regional museum of local lore, history and economy. The history of excavations of Chmyrеva Mohyla numbers more than a century. They were started by F. A. Braun in 1898, M. I. Veselovskiy (1909—1910) continued the excavations and Yu. V. Boltryk in 1994 completed them. The burial mound has not been excavated in full because of various reasons. The destiny of finds from this barrow was tragic. A lot of artifacts among them silver vessels from the hiding-place which was revealed by M. I. Veselovskiy were lost during the World War II when the collections of Kharkiv historic museum were evacuated. Scythian bronze pole-tops as one of the most interesting categories of artifacts for a long time attracted attention of scholar world. They were classified by types and date, their significance in funeral ceremony and everyday life was searched for. The questions still remain. In this article we tried to put into scholar circulation a scanty type of pole-tops with the image of pacing gryphon on the pear-shaped little bell which is characteristic only for Steppe Dnieper river region. For today only eight of them are known and most of them are originated from of the burial mounds of high Scythian aristocracy: Tovsta Mohyla, Haimanova Mohyla, Chmyrova Mohyla. Chronologically they are slightly differed from other pole-tops both with the image of deer on pear-shaped little bells from Tovsta Mohyla, and with the image of deer on flat cone bushes from Haimanova Mohyla. The question about the place of production of such pole-tops is still opened. Probably just these types of pole-tops could be produced in one workshop but not all known variety of objects as V. A. Ilinska thought. One of the problems to be solved by researchers is searching for such workshops. But if these objects have been moulded by wax models the task becomes more complicated.

scholarly journals THE MATERIALS OF THE KOMAROVO AND SOSNITSA CULTURES IN THE EXPOSITION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY OF THE NAS OF UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
S. D. Lysenko
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Soil Burial ◽  
Site Analysis ◽  
Ruminant Animal ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Funeral Practice ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Late Stages

The article republishes the ceramics and bronze decorations of Komarovo and Sosnitsa cultures of the Trzciniec cultural circle (TCC) from the exposition of the Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Detailed descriptions of the exhibits and their author’s graphic reconstructions are given. These things, which became a textbook long time ago, previously were published only in the form of schematic and inaccurate drawings or in the form of not very high-quality photographs. The materials originate from the sites of the northern part of the forest-steppe eastern Volhynia (Wojciechowka), Kiev (Ukrainka, Zavalovka, Zdvizhevka, Plitovische, Gostomel) and Chernigov (Rudnya) Polesie. The finds refer to different periods of the formation and development of the TСC and date back to 2nd thousand BC. Special attention is paid to vessels discovered in 1956 by N. T. Evstropov at the site Gostomel, Stekol’nyy zavod 1. S. S. Berezanskaya came to the conclusion that this point is not a household site, but «a small soil burial ground with burning», referring to a series of observations of N. T. Evstropova. Detailed comparison of the primary publication of N. T. Evstropov with subsequent re-publication of the site of S. S. Berezanskaya, allow us to call into question conclusions of the latter. One of the reasons for skepticism is the miraculous transformation of «destroyed teeth of a ruminant animal» (in N. T. Evstropov publication) into «worn-out» and «calcified bones» (in S. S. Berezanskaya publications). Fragments of the teeth of a ruminant animal (bull?) are still folded into one of the vessels exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Could the vessels from Gostomel be connected with ritual-funeral practice, such as the vessels found in the ritual-funeral complexes of the Malopolovetskoe, Wojciechowka, Bukovna cemeteries? It is possible, but there is no evidence for this. Similarly, they can be associated with any other rituals, as well as with the remains of an ordinary household complex. N. T. Evstropov did it at the first publication of the site. Analysis of the ceramic complex allows us to attribute the Gostomel, Stekol’nyy zavod 1 point to the turn of the middle and late stages of the TCC Sosnitsa culture and date it to the end of the 13th — the beginning of the 12th centuries BC.

New insights into Southern Caucasian glacial-interglacial climate conditions inferred from Quaternary gastropod faunas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Richter
Keyword(s):  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Gastropod Species ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
Glacial Periods ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

<p><strong>New insights into Southern Caucasian glacial-interglacial climate conditions inferred from Quaternary gastropod faunas</strong></p><p>Dr. Christiane Richter<sup>1</sup>, Dr. Daniel Wolf<sup>1</sup>, Dipl.-Biol. Frank Walther<sup>2</sup>, Dr. Stefan Meng<sup>3</sup>, Dr. Lilit Sahakyan<sup>4, </sup>M. Sc. Tilmann Wolpert<sup>5</sup>, Prof. Dr. Markus Fuchs<sup>5</sup>, Prof. Dr. Michael Zech<sup>1</sup>, Prof. Dr. Dominik Faust<sup>1</sup></p><p><sup>1</sup>Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany</p><p><sup>2</sup> University Hamburg, Centrum für Naturkunde, Martin-Luther-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany</p><p><sup>3</sup> Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 17a, 17489 Greifswald, Germany</p><p><sup>4</sup> National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Baghramyan Ave. 24a, 0019 Yerevan, <br>  Armenia</p><p><sup>5 </sup>Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Gießen, Germany</p><p>We present our latest results  from gastropod analyses conducted on loess palaeosol sequences from northeast Armenia (Southern Caucasia) covering at least three glacial-interglacial cycles. The ecostratigraphy shows significant patterns of species composition related to the succession of pedocomplexes and loess, respectively. Pedocomplexes included species that can be associated with highgrass- to forest-steppe biomes, indicating increased humidity for these sections compared to loess layers. In contrast, loess layers that relate to glacial periods are associated with gastropod species of semidesert environments with shrub- and shortgrass-steppes, indicating semiarid to arid conditions. Furthermore, the loess deposits do not show any evidence for cold-adapted gastropod species. Therefore we suggest that average July temperatures in the study area were above 10°C, even during periods of loess deposition. We propose, that the limiting factor for bios during glacial periods was aridity, rather than temperature. In addition, we observe environmental differences between the various glacial times, with our results indicating a trend towards steadily increasing aridity in Southern Caucasia across the Middle to Late Pleistocene.</p>

Opportunities and Features of the Palynological Analysis Application on Various Types of Archaeological Sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 361-376
Author(s):  
Anna Aleshinskaya ◽  
◽  
Anna Babenko ◽  
Maria Kochanova ◽  
Alla Troshina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Palynological Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analysis Application ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Recommendations

A wide variety of archaeological sites associated with various human activity has led to the emergence of a wide range of problems solved by archaeological palynology. On the example of the palynological materials accumulated in the Laboratory of Nature Sciences of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the opportunities and features of the palynological analysis application are considered both on classical objects for Russian archaeopalynology (cultural layer, buried soils, defensive ramparts, burial mounds, etc.) and on non-traditional ones (latrines, vessels, funerary objects, ceramics, etc.). It is shown that the reconstruction of the natural environment, generally accepted for palynology, is mainly possible for the materials from long timed sites of shepherds in caves and rock shelters and cultural layers of sites, settlements, hillforts. Materials obtained from other objects (ancient and medieval arable lands, storage pits, latrines, the contents of ritual objects, vessels, and the gastrointestinal tract of the buried) give an idea of very local and short-term environmental conditions or events usually associated with economic and/or daily activities of a person, with his food, funerary rites and traditions. In this regard, the possibilities of the palynological method and the purposes will be different for each specific research. Recommendations for the sampling for palynological analysis are given for each specific case.

scholarly journals Preliminary archaeological studies (surveys) on the project of the bypass road around Berezhany town

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 206-223
Author(s):  
Oleh Osaulchuk ◽  
Zoya Ilchyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

The article offers results of preliminary archaeological investigations, conducted by Scientific Research Center «Rescue Archaeological Service» (Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) in 2007 and 2017, prior to the construction project of the bypass road around Berezhany town in Ternopil region. It provides information concerning the newly discovered archeological sites as well as the elaboration of the obtainable data on formerly revealed sites in the surroundings of villages Lisnyky, Lapshyn, Hayok and Hlynovychi. According to archival and bibliographic data, archaeological surveys were previously conducted in 2006 by the expeditions of Mykhailo Filipchuk and Mykola Bandrivsky nearby villages Lapshyn and Hynovychi. However, the summaries of these surveys are insufficiently published and besides presenting the incoherent results, which cause some confusion in the number of sites. In 2007, expedition of Rescue Archaeological Service has re-examined the multi-layered settlement Hynovychi I, collecting the items from the Late Paleolithic to the Early Iron Age. Subsequent rescue archeological excavations were carried out in 2008 by the expedition led by Bohdan Salo. Ancient Rus settlement Hlynovychi III was discovered adjacent to the previous site. Around the village Lapshyn, additional archeological sites were discovered, namely Lapshyn III, IV, V, and VI, which behold several phases of the region’s inhabitants starting from the Paleolithic and until the Age of Principalities. Materials of Vysotsko and Chernyakhiv cultures are predominant on these sites. Four groups of barrows were located on the forested hills near village Lisnyky, named therefore Lisnyky I, II, III, and IV. They contain a total of 20 barrows, which could be dated to the Bronze Age. Altogether, the explorations of 2007 and 2017 has newly discovered or identified ten archaeological sites, including settlements and burrow necropolises. Seven previously known settlement were localized due to the updated information. As a result, the archeological map of the region was significantly supplemented, with the names and numbers of archaeological sites well-coordinated. Some of the ancient settlements and the barrow groups are located along the route of future bypass road, thus making it necessary to conduct preventive archaeological excavations. The results of intended studies will definitely clarify cultural and chronological identity of these sites. Key words: archeological surveys, preventive archeological studies, assessments of the impact on the archeological heritage, bypass road around Berezhany town, settlement, barrow group, Paleolithic, Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Late Antiquity, Vysotsko culture, Chernyakhiv culture, Age of Principalities.

scholarly journals Dmytro F. Krasytsky: Archeological and Ethnographic Study of the Region above the Dnipro Rapids

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Zoia Marina ◽  
Oleksandra Romashko
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Contemporary Status ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The City

The materials of the complex archeological and ethnographic expedition in the Dnipro regions by D. F. Krasitsky in 1944–1945 was description in this article. The names of the participants were established, among them employees of the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, experts of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of the USSR and students of the Duma. The attention is drawn to the active role of D. F. Krasitsky, as a manager, in solving various organizational and financial issues for the implementation of scientific and practical tasks facing the expedition. The text sections of the reports, which differ by subject, are analyzed. In particular, it speaks of the following: "Over the Dnipro", "Mirror of the Dnipro" and "Minerals of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye Oblasts". The first one provides information on archaeological sites, whose location has been established due to the downfall of the Dnipro through the undermining of the dam Dniprges. It emphasizes the cultural peculiarities of time-consuming archaeological sites, describes their contemporary status. The section "Mirror of the Dnipro" is accompanied by a detailed map-scheme of the northern part of the Dnipro, which allows them to be considered as a unique unique reference book. The data of the third section on minerals in the research area indicate a profound knowledge of DF. Krasitsky on this issue. For ethnographic surveys, villages selected near the city of Dnipropetrovsk: Lotsmanskaya Kamyanka, Stary Kaidaki, Voloska, Zvonetsk and Military. 100 respondents from 106 questions from a specific FD were interviewed. Krasitsky theme - "House and in the house". The obtained data of ethnographic observations reflect the transformation of ethnoculture of Ukrainians in the region. The importance and exclusivity of the material collected during the expedition under the direction of DF Krasitsky on the historical, cultural and ethnographic peculiarities of the population of ancient times to the present day have been emphasized.

scholarly journals Development strategy and main directions of academic research in the field of Culture, Language and Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-481
Author(s):  
A. I. Lokotko
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article is devoted to the research of the Center for Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus that was created in 2012 on the basis of K. Krapiva Institute of Art Studies, Ethnography and Folklore, Y. Kolas and Y. Kupala institutes of language and literature. The stages of the institutes research activity, fundamental scientific works, scientific schools, contribution to the humanities of leading scientists, and immediate and remote prospects of research in the fields of culture, language and literature are analyzed.

scholarly journals Burial Mounds Near Kachkarovka Village

Archaeology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Henadii Yevdokimov ◽  
Natalia Danylko ◽  
Serhii Pustovalov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The West ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Bronze Age

The materials of the mounds located on the Lower Dnieper Right Bank, investigated by the Krasnoznamiansk expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1995, are introduced into scientific circulation. In total, 27 burials were examined, mainly of the Early Bronze Age, which were located in three burial mounds that fell into the reclamation zone between the villages of Kachkarovka and Sablukovka of the Beryslavskyi district of the Kherson Region The total number of mounds reaches 16 units. The Bronze Age of this region has been extremely insufficiently studied. Therefore, the published burials substantially supplement the understanding of it. As in other places, the first Yamna culture burials in the mounds are oriented along the west-eastern line, the later burials are oriented in a circle. The shape of the graves, the position of the buried people is typical for this region. These are rectangular pits with marked corners, shoulders or ledges. At a later stage — on the right or left side. Children’s Yamna culture graves with a large amount of inventory draw attention. For the Early Bronze Age, this is evidence of the presence of a powerful social center of the Yamna population. At the same time, the burials of adults are not distinguished by either size or inventory. In addition to ceramics, among the items were found two rather rare items — Pan’s flutes — bone musical instruments made of the middle parts of bird bones. Also important is the discovery of a Yamna culture pot in an Ingul grave, which is another evidence of the long-term coexistence of these two groups of population.

scholarly journals RESEARCH OF THE UKRAINIAN COSSACKS IN THE SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE BY D. YA. TELEHIN (according to documents stored in the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology, NAS of Ukraine)

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
G. O. Stanytsina
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Arkhangelsk Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Archive ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

The Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine keeps the personal holding of the prominent Ukrainian archaeologist Dmytro Telehin (1919—2011), Doctor of historical sciences, Professor, who studied archeological sites from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The entire home archive of the scholar whose materials are arranged according to the archeological periods was brought to the Scientific Archive. Within the thematic complex the documents are arranged by dates and content. This publication is devoted to those documents of the personal fund D. Ya. Telehin, which relate to the study of archaeological sites and history of the Ukrainian Cossacks. TThe collection contains: field diary, copies of scientific reports on archeological excavations, drawings and plans of the area and excavations, photographs and drawings of finds and other documents. Archival materials related to the study of the Sich territories where the Cossacks lived and their necropolises are located, were dated from 1990 to 1994. Dmytro Telehin inspected and researched the following Cossack Sichs: Tomakivska (1564—1593) near the town of Marhanets; Bazavlutska (1593—1630) near the village of Leninske; Mykytynska (1638—1652) in Nikopol; Chortomlytska or as it was also called Kapulivska, or «old» (1652—1709) near the village of Kapulivka; Pokrovska, which was called «new» (1734—1775), near the village of Pokrovsk in the Kherson region. The personal stock of D. Ya. Telehin contains the documents that reflect the visit of the scholar to island of Khortytsia, the research of the Oleshkivska Sich (1711—1728), as well as the camp of Severyn Nalyvaiko on Turkachivsky hill near the village of Solonitsa (in 1596), Poltava region. Of considerable interest are the documents about the journey of D.Ya. Telegin to the island of Solovky, Arkhangelsk region where Petro Kalnyshevsky, the last Hetman of the New Sich, has been exiled. The scholar’s collection also contains his lifetime publications on the topic of the Cossacks, the layout of the book «Cossack times. Sich Zaporiz`ka» and other documents concerning Ukrainian Cossacks, their places of residence and burial.

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