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On one aspect of Scythyan dynastic history

Author(s): Vladimir Romashko,Serghey Skory / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2009

Excavation of Scythian elite burial mound nearby Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) allows addressing to some important aspects of Scythian dynastic history of the second half – the end of the 5th century BC. According to the version of the authors of proposed article, 25-30 years old noble man buried in this barrow might be identified as Oricus, i.e. the son of Scythian king Ariapith and younger stepbrother of notorious king Scylas, about whom Herodotus is reported.

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Landmarks of memory – notes on Iron Age Tumuli. Topography in ČAČAK region, Serbia

Author(s): Marija Ljutina,Katarina Dmitrović / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2009

The present paper is dealing with some of the aspects of tumular landscape in the Čačak region, Serbia. The microlocation of the Iron Age mounds, their number, shape, roots and symbolics were analysed, as well as the relation with the other contemporaneous sites from the same area. Having in mind all these different aspects, several regularities were established in relation to the foundation of the necropolises under the mounds in this region.

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Amazons burials in the lands of steppe Scythia

Author(s): Elena E. Fialko / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2009

Amazons as beautiful horsewomen and female warriors are mentioned among famous heroes of the ancient Greek mythology more then ones. Greeks regarded their fighting characters very highly and called groups of warlike maiden for help in battle with an enemy. The first story about women-mariticides (Οίόρπατα) was written by Herodotus. During the second half of 20th cent. archaeological researches of the territory of the South of Ukraine, which was occupied somewhere by nomads, the interesting materials were found. It was evident, that women really had been in the collective of nomads, and they had carried weapon, taken part in armed clash just as men. Therefore Amazons were buried as valorous fighters. At Scythian time the woman burials with weapons were widely-distributed on the territory of South-Eastern Europe. On the Ukrainian South lands burials of female warriors consist a quarter of a number of all Scythian burials with weapons. In the territories of Pontic Steppe armed woman burials dating to the 5th—4th cent. BC part into three main clusters. Burials of armed women dating to this period are known on the lends of Don River also. We doubt if the country of Amazons was at the Northen Black Sea coast lands. Archaeological searches give no picture about irreconcilable mariticides. However sequence of data coincide according correlation of ancient authors descriptions and archaeological materials.

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