MAIASP. 2024. No. 16

S.B. Valchak (Moscow, Russia), S.N. Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova), K.A. Frolova (Tiraspol, Moldova),  V.S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova

Newgraves of the Pre-Scythian time on the left bank of the Dniester. Pt. 1

DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2024.38.55.003

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Pages: 42—92

The article publishes and analyzes the burials of the Chernogovka culture, studied on the left bank of the Dniester. All graves are radiocarbon dated. The obtained dates showed that the burials 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 “reservoir effect” for dates derived from adult persons’ bones is, in most cases, undisputed. Its value is currently preliminary determined to be 135 radiocarbon years. It is likely that the radiocarbon dates obtained for Pre-Scythian graves laid on the back and side (no earlier than the middle of the 8th century BCE) were a consequence of the reservoir effect. The most important result of the work is a significant increase of quantity of funerary sites of the Pre-Scythian period in the North-West Black Sea region.

Key words: Left bank on the Dniester Region, Pre-Scythian graves, radiocarbon dating, the second half of the 9th — the first half of the 7th century BCE.

Received January 6, 2024.

Accepted for publication January 17, 2024.

About the authors:

Valchak Sergey Borisovich (Moscow, Russia). Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

E-mail: valchaks@yandex.ru

Razumov Sergey Nikolaevich (Tiraspol, Moldova). Candidate of Historical Sciences, Laboratory “Archaeology”, Pridnestrovian State University named after T.G. Shevchenko.

E-mail: razum_22@mail.ru

Frolova Ksenia Alexandrovna (Tiraspol, Moldova). Pridnestrovian State University named after T.G. Shevchenko.

E-mail: ksgo1997@vk.com

Sinika Vitalij Stepanovich (Tiraspol, Moldova). Doctor of Historical Sciences, Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko.

E-mail: sinica80@mail.ru