Archaeological sites of the Late Scythian – Early Sarmatian period in the Dnipro-Donets forest-steppe
Archaeological sites of the Late Scythian – Early Sarmatian period in the Dnipro-Donets forest-steppe

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of archaeological sites of the last three centuries BC of one of the least studied regions − the forest-steppe zone between the Dnipro with its large rivers (the Sula, the Psel and the Vorskla) and the Siverskyi Donets. As in the entire Northern Black Sea region, at the turn of the 4th-3rd centuries BC for this territory, a period of destabilization begins: a sharp decrease of the settlement structure, burial mounds ended their existence. Over the next three centuries, the territory of the Dnipro-Donets forest-steppe remained sparsely populated area, no new cultural formations were formed here and single complexes and cultural deposits do not allow us to definitely associate the antiquities of this territory with any one ethnic group. The archaeological record collected in the article on all the few known sites of this period and the analysis of objects of material culture allow us to conclude that the territory of the Dnipro-Donets forest-steppe during the 3rd-1st centuries BC remained a contact zone, characterized by the intersection of several cultural traditions.

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