BARROW GROUP 2 OF THE VOYTSEKHIVKA BURIAL GROUND OF THE KOMARIV CULTURE (excavations of 1924 and 2012—2013)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2024.04.03Keywords:
Volynia, Late Bronze Age, Trzciniec cultural circle, Komariv culture, Voytsekhivka burial groundAbstract
The Voytsekhivka burial ground is one of the most significant cultural sites of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern part of Forest-Steppe Volynia. The site is located on the left bank of the Sluch River between the village of Myropil, the village of Kolodiazhne of Zhytomyr District, Zhytomyr Region, and the village of Kolosivka (former Voytsekhivka) of Shepetivka District, Khmelnytskyi Region, in Zapust Stow. The burial ground consists of 17 barrow groups, which in total contain more than a hundred mounds.
In 1924, S. S. Hamchenko started excavations of the cultural site, and O. F. Lahodovska continued the study in 1949. In total, 13 mounds were excavated in barrow group No.1 and one mound in barrow group 2. Then, in 2011—2013, the Fastiv Archaeological Expedition resumed excavations at the burial ground, with 4 mounds excavated in barrow group 3 and one mound-like hill in each of barrow groups 4—6.
Most of the burial assemblages discovered at the burial ground (16 mounds out of 21) belong to the classic horizons of the Komariv culture of the Trzciniec cultural circle of the Late Bronze Age (mid-third quarter of the 2nd millennium BC). Mound 1 of barrow group 2, excavated by S. S. Hamchenko in 1924, can also be dated by that time. Two heavily destroyed burials were discovered in the mound. Based on the remains of the bones, we can assume that the dead were laid crouched on their right side and oriented with their heads to the south-west and west. No grave goods were found near the bones, with the earthfill containing fragments of large vessels and bowls of the Trzciniec-Komariv type. The remains of a ritual hearth and individual bones of a sacrificial animal (a bull) were found above the central burial.
In 2012, the excavation site of S. S. Hamchenko was located in the area. In 2013, O. V. Manihda made a video of the central section of the Voytsehivka burial ground by means of GPS. The expedition found three smaller and heavily ploughed mounds to the north of mound 1 of barrow group 2, with further excavations considered promising.
References
Berezanskaia, S. S. 1959. Otchet o rabote Volynskogo razvedochnogo otriada v 1958—1959 gg. NA ІA NAN Ukrainy, f. 64, 1959/13a.
Berezanskaia, S. S. 1972. Srednii period bronzovogo veka v Severnoi Ukraine. Kiev: Naukova dumka.
Buniatian, K. P. 2021. Doba bronzy — «vik tvarynnytstva». In: Voronchuk, I. (ed.). Istoriia Volyni. 1. Kyiv; Kharkiv: O. Savchuk, s. 167-208.
Burdo, N. B. 2004. Voitsekhivka. In: Videiko M. Yu. (ed.). Entsyklopediia trypilskoi tsyvilizatsii. 2. Kyiv: Ukrpolihrafmedia, s. 103-104.
Gamchenko, S. S. 1924. Raskopki 1924 g. na Volyni Sergeia Gamchenka. NA ІA NAN Ukrainy, fond S. S. Gamchenko, N 46—48.
Goncharov, V. K. 1948. Otchet o rabotakh Volynsko-Podolskoi arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii 1948 goda. NA ІA NAN Ukrainy, f. 64, 1948/5.
Lagodovskaia, E. F. N 34—35. Materialy k issled. Voitsekhovskikh pamiatnikov. NA ІA NAN Ukrainy, fond E. F. Lahodovskoi, N 34—35.
Lahodovska, O. F. 1948. Voitsekhivskyi mohylnyk bronzovoi doby na Volyni. Arheologia, II, s. 62-77.
Lagodovskaia, E. F. 1954. Voitsekhovskoe pozdnetripolskoe poselenie. Kratkie soobshcheniia instituta arkheologii USSR, 3, s. 86-89.
Lahodovska, O. F., Zakharuk, Yu. M. 1956. Novi doslidzhennia Voitsekhivskoho mohylnyka. Arkheolohichni pam’iatky URSR, VI, s. 69-74.
Levytskyi, I. F. 1929. Pamiatky mehalitychnoi kultury na Volyni. Antropolohiia, II, s. 192-222.
Levytskyi, I. F. 1930. Domovyna kintsia neolitychnoi doby na poberezhzhi serednoi techii r. Sluchi (s. Kolodiazhne na Volyni). Zapysky VUAK, I, s. 159-178.
Lysenko, S. D. 2019. Materialy komarovskoi i sosnitskoi kultur v ekspozitsii Arkheologicheskogo muzeia Instituta arkheologii NAN Ukrainy. Arkheolohiia i davnia istoriia Ukrainy, 3 (32), s. 49-62.
Lysenko, S. D., Lysenko, S. S. 2011. Vklad S. S. Gamchenko v izuchenie pamiatnikov tshinetskogo kulturnogo kruga. In: Platonova, N. I. (ed.). Istoriia arkheologii: lichnosti i shkoly. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii k 160-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia V. V. Khvoiki (Kiev, 5—8.10.2010). Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istoriia, s. 217-230.
Lisenko, S. D., Lisenko, S. S. 2017. Kurganopodobnie vozvisheniya s territorii Voitsekhovskogo mogilnika (po rezultatam issledovanii 2013 g.). Novoe proshloe, 4, s. 264-285.
Lisenko, S. D., Lisenko, S. S. 2018. Kurgannaya gruppa 3 Voitsekhovskogo mogilnika (po rezultatam issledovanii 2011—2012 gg.). In: Sinika, V. S., Rabinovich, R. A. (ed.). Drevnosti. Issledovaniya. Problemi. Sbornik statei v chest 70-letiya N. P. Telnova. Kishinyov; Tiraspol: Stratum, s. 89-112.
Lisenko, S. D., Lisenko, S. S. 2021. Kompleks metallicheskikh izdelii zavershayushchego etapa epokhi pozdnei bronzi s territorii Voitsekhovskogo mogilnika. Stratum plus, 2, s. 339-360.
Lysenko, S. D., Lysenko, S. S. 2024a. Kurhanna hrupa 3 Voitsekhivskoho mohylnyka komarivskoi kultury. Arkheolohiia, 4, s. 61-85.
Lysenko, S. D., Lysenko, S. S. 2024b. Spiralni pidvisky tshynetskoho kulturnoho kola typu Lubna—Chornohorodka. Arkheolohiia i davnia istoriia Ukrainy, 1, s. 40-53.
Manihda, O. V., Lysenko, S. D. 2014. Malovidome horodyshche v systemi litopysnoho Kolodiazhyna na r. Sluch. Arkheolohichni doslidzhennia v Ukraini 2013 r., s. 121-122.
Matviishina, Zh. N., Lysenko, S. D., Kushnir, A. S. 2020. Paleopedologicheskie issledovaniia kurganov Voitsekhovskogo mogilnika. Materialy po arkheologii i istorii antichnogo i srednevekovogo Prichernomoria, 12, s. 13-76.
Sveshnikov, I. K. 1983. Kultura sharovidnikh amfor. Arkheologiya SSSR. Svod arkheologicheskikh istochnikov, V1-27. Moskva: Nauka.
Slavin, L. M. 1947. Dvadtsiat p’iat rokiv arkheolohichnykh doslidzhen Akademii nauk URSR. Arheologia, I, s. 65-84.
