Materials of Burial Mound Ust-Pogozhye

Abstract

Six burial mounds were excavated near the village of Ust-Pogozhye in the Ilovlinsky District of the Volgograd Region on the Berdiya River (the tributary of the Ilovlya River). There were burials of Yamna culture, Сatacomb culture and Srubna culture which belonged to the Bronze Age, the burial of the Sarmatian culture belonged to the 4th –3th centuries BC. There were also burials of Late Sarmatian culture. A collection of ceramics of Srubna culture is built, among which there are vessels with “magic signs”. The Sarmatian burials contained the ceramics of local and imported production, bronze and iron arrowheads, bronze pendants, beads, anthropomorphic figures made from chalk, gypsum druse, etc.

Keywords

• bronze age
• yamna culture
• catacomb culture
• srubna culture
• sarmatian culture
• burial
• kerving
• ceramics
• arrowheads