Хотынецкая агломерация скифского культурного круга и ее значение для интерпретации культурных связей раннего железного века на пограничье Центральной и Восточной Европы
The Chotyniec Agglomeration of the Scythian Cultural Circle and its Importance for the Interpretation of Cultural Relations of the Early Iron Age on the Borderland of Central and Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of the latest discoveries that have been made in recent years in south-eastern Poland. In the vicinity of the town of Chotyniec (6 km away from the current Polish-Ukrainian border), a cluster of the early Iron Age sites was identified. It can be associated with the forest-steppe variant of the Scythian cultural circle. Its central part is a hillfort (Chotyniec 1), where the so-called “zolnik” (cult area) was excavated. It contained interesting material — bronze arrow heads and pins, fragments of golden objects, fragments of Greek wine amphorae and a large series of hand made ceramics, analogous to those found in many forest-steppe groups from 7th—5th century BC. The hillfort is surrounded with settlement sites with the same set of objects. This interesting cluster was identified as the Chotyniec agglomeration. It is a new, the farthest north-western enclave of the Scythian world. The article contains a preliminary assessment of discoveries in the context of territorial and chronological relations with other cultural groupings of the early Iron Age.

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