Исследование кургана скифского времени на Среднем Дону
Investigation of a Scythian-Time Burial Mound in the Middle Don Basin

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on sharing and examining excavation finds from mound 1 of the Middle Don burial ground Devitsa-V in the Ostrogozhsk district of the Voronezh region. By studying chronological markers in the grave goods, researchers dated the burial to between the mid and early third quarter of the 4th century BC. This mound was built during the earliest phase of the necropolis, despite being far its center. The funeral customs suggest it followed the traditions of a community that built burial mounds along the Potudan River, a right tributary of the Don. Evidence points to this group being a distinct “clan” within the Middle Don Scythian society, a theory supported by recent paleogenetic research.

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