BARROWS NEAR SOKOLOVE VILLAGE IN THE LOWER SAMARA REGION: THE ISSUE OF THE EMERGENCE OF «LONG BARROWS» IN THE BRONZE AGE
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https://doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2025.01.10Keywords:
Eneolithic, Yamna culture, catacomb culture, Babyno culture, «long Barrows».Abstract
Two barrows near Sokolove village of Dnipropetrovsk region in the lower reaches of the Samara River were excavated in 2008. In the Barrow 1 fourteen burials were discovered. Two of them, graves 6 and 13, belonged to the Copper Age. The initial mound was constructed over these burials. The next grave 7 of the Yamna culture was inserted into the mound after which it was enlarged. The final phase of mound construction may be associated with graves 8—10, and 14 of the Yamna culture or with graves 11 and 12 of the Catacomb culture.
In the Barrow 2 twenty four graves were discovered. Initially, two separate mounds were erected: one over graves 5 and 12 dated to the Copper Age and another over grave 13 from the same period. Both mounds were encircled by ditches, and the spoil clay was used as building material for their construction. Graves 20 and 22 of the Yamna culture were inserted in both mounds, after which they were expanded. Subsequently, grave 19 of the Yamna culture and grave 10 of the Catacomb culture were inserted into the first mound, while grave 21 of the Catacomb culture was added to the second mound. Eventually both mounds were combined into a single long barrow after the making of two secondary graves 23 and 24 of the Catacomb culture.
The Copper Age burials are associated with the Post-Mariupol/Kvityana culture. The Yamna culture burials can be attributed to the late phase and are estimated to date to the mid-3rd millennium BCE. The Catacomb culture burials also belong to a later stage of the culture and can be dated to the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE.
A particularly unusual aspect of this barrow is the erection of a long mound over Catacomb culture burials. Previously, only two similar cases associated with the Yamna culture have been recorded. The construction of long mounds is more characteristic of the Babyno culture, which is dated to a later chronological period. It is suggested that the people of the Babyno culture adopted this rare funeral tradition and made it a defining feature of their own funerary practices.
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