Новые погребения предскифского времени на левобережье Днестра. Ч. 2
New graves of the Pre-Scythian time on the left bank of the Dniester. Pt. 2

Summary/Abstract: The article publishes and analyzes 20 burials of the Chernogovka culture, studied on the left bank of the Dniester. Only two graves contained objects that could be dated to the pre-Scythian period. One of them contained a two-tiered jug, the ornamentation of which has analogies in the ceramics of the cultural and historical community of Basarabi-Sholdaneshty (the 8th— the first half of the 7thcentury BCE), and the other one contained four iron cones. Other burials contained culturally and chronologically insignificant grave goods or had no inventory. Nineteen burials were dated using the radiocarbon method. The dates obtained showed that the graves were made in the chronological range of the pre-Scythian period, located on the chronological scale between the sites of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Scythian culture. The presence of a “reservoir effect” for dates obtained from the bones of adults is, in most cases, beyond doubt. It is quite possible that the radiocarbon dates obtained for the pre-Scythian burials stretched out on their backs and sides (not earlier than the middle of the 8thcentury BCE) were the result of the reservoir effect. The most important result of the work is a significant increase in the number of graves of the pre-Scythian period in the North-West Black Sea region.

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