Каменные погребальные сооружения эпохи энеолита – ранней бронзы в Северном Причерноморье
Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age stone burial constructions of the North Black Sea region

Summary/Abstract: Stone burial constructions are appearing in North Black Sea region together with the carriers of Early Eneolithic cultures. Boxes and tombs made of different kind of stone and sometimes painted with ocher are followed with different funerary equipment. They belong to different cultural groups and are constructed during centuries. This issue has being studied previously numerous times, though systematic and complex interpretation of related cultural processes has not been created yet. Lack of radiocarbon dates, poor funerary equipment and frequently highly damaged anthropological remains postpone the creation of more or less distinct attribution of North Black Sea region stone burial constructions. They definitely belong to the different cultural formations and different directions of trends migration across this region – both from East and West. Though the problem is way too complex to be solved in one article, here we are trying to create an approach to the chronological and cultural attribution of stone burial constructions of this region. This attempt is caused by the newly discovered stone tomb near the Kamyana Mogyla. This object is reliably dated to the Early Bronze Age and connected to the Yamnaya archaeological culture.

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