Materials of Late — Final Bronze Age From the Multilayer settlement of Pyatnitskoe-I in severskiy Donets Basin

Abstract

The paper is devoted to analysis of materials discovered during the excavations of the settlement of Pyatnitskoe-I in 2008–2012. The earliest among them are evidently related to the settlement of Berejnovka-Mayovka Srubnaya Culture (XV—XIII BC). Late Bronze Age Final Stage is presented by the inhumation burial. population of Early Bondarikha Culture (Maly Budky Type) was occupying the site during Belozerka Culture time (XII — conditionally middle of XI century BC). Series of artifacts also presents Classic or Late Bondarikha Culture and dates up to middle of XI — verges of IX/VIII centuries BC. Eastern vector of communications, related with Volga-Ural-Kazakhstan region, is observed on materials of Late as well as Final Bronze Age.