An Early Scythian Barrow of Mamai-Gora Burial Ground in Lower Dnieper Region

Abstract

The paper is the first publication and analysis of the materials obtained in the study of the Early Scythian barrow 377 of the Mamai-Gora cemetery in the Lower Dnieper region. Two burials were found under the mound. One of them (no. 2) was looted. Only a bronze arrowhead was found. A Greek amphora, a gold earring, bone and bronze arrowheads, bone cheekpieces, an iron axe, akinakes, a whetstone, an iron knife with an antler handle and an iron awl, and other items were found in the other burial (no. 1). The dating of the mound is determined by the turn of the 7th—6th — the first half of the 6th century BC. This mound testifies that the first Scythians at the Mamai-Gora site performed their funerary rituals to the west of the Bronze Age mound center. The next wave of Scythians began to develop this territory only from the beginning of the 5th century BC and forms a huge space in the Scythian cemetery Mamay-Gora.