SURVEY AT HOLOSKIV 1 SITE

Abstract

The results of archaeological research carried out at the two-layered Сucuteni-Trypillia settlement of Holoskiv 1 in the Middle Dniester region are described in the paper. The study establishes the relative chronology of the Middle Trypillia sites of this territory, basing on the analysis of ceramic material. New archaeological data, discovered through the surveys of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Historical Museum-Reserve expedition, makes it possible to add and revise certain elements in the scheme of the relative chronology of the Middle Trypillia on the Dniester. The analysis of ceramic finds (study of the morphology and ornamentation of painted ware) make it possible to distinguish two chronological horizons at the Holoskiv 1 settlement. The lower one was assigned to the final stage BI. This horizon included the pottery decorated with polychrome and bichrome painting, which refers to the Kadyivtsi type of sites (according to T. Movsha). Analogies to these finds made it possible to expand a number of similar sites, which may later be considered within the Kadyivtsi local group. It included Kadyivtsi-Bavky A, Kudryntsi I, Schipenitz A, Nezvysko II, Frydrivtsi, Havrylivtsi-Stinka, Pidpylyp’ya (lower horizon), Hrynchuk (lower horizon), Tymkiv I, Kubachivka (lower horizon), Kozak I, Holoskiv 1 (lower horizon), Hlybochok, possibly Velyka Slobidka-Khreschate (lower horizon), Babyn-Yama, Zinkivtsi 4, Zinkivtsi 5 and Zinkivtsi 6. The upper horizon was mostly represented by samples of tableware with monochrome black ornament. Following N. Vynohradova, S. Ryzhov, T. Tkachuk, it was assigned to the stage Trypillia B II. The analysis of the discovered material confirms Tkachuk’s opinion that the settlement belongs to the Mereşeuca-Schipenitz contact zone. Only further archaeological research on wide areas, and obtaining a consistent series of C14-dates for representative closed assemblages of the region sites will improve the local-chronological division of the Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements in the Middle Dniester region.