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дослідження кладовища козацької доби, частково розкопаного Північною експедицією Інституту археології НАН України у с. С тайки на узбережжі Канівського водосховища. Характеризуються особливості
матеріальної та простежених за матеріальними
рештками елементів духовної культури жителів
пункту, залучаються результати опрацювання виявлених знахідок фахівцями-антропологами.
In 2006, the Stayky team of the Northern Expedition
of the Institute of Archaeology discovered the
multi-layered settlements on the edge of the plateau
north of the village and on the Dnieper islands opposite
it and carried out the rescue excavations of the wellknown
center including the various settlements and
a Cossack cemetery. The materials of the settlement
structure have already been published, as well as the
exploration of the historical and cultural heritage of
the settlement. The paper describes the results of research
of the cemetery.
During the campaign ca. 250 m2 of area with 26 burials
made according to the canons of Christian rituals
have been unearthed. They have no grave goods, except,
probably, of burial 16, just below of which a coin
blank or demonetized product and a silver Riga solid
from the Baltic possessions of Sweden, minted in 1653
by Queen Christina, were found. The absence of other
synchronous materials in the layers of the site allows
to connect these finds not with the settlement structures
but with the cemetery. And the single artifacts
of previous ages, collected in two graves, belong to the
surrounding layer.
Despite the partial destruction of some burials by the
quarry and the damage of shallow pits by further household
activities it was observed that the skeletons laid supine
with arms crossed on the chest or abdomen, although
during skeletonization the arms could move to the pelvis
and along the body. Certain deviations are noted in the
position of the head and lower jaw in particular.
The graves are 0.35—0.90 m deep, the deceased
were directed with the head to the west with a slight
deviation to the south, usually associated with the seasonal
place of the Sun above the horizon. Gender and
age differences have not been traced by the depth or
direction of burials, although a higher concentration of
graves, possibly a family plot, was found in one of the
excavation area. Mutual overlaps of burials are few,
although the damage of some graves with a moving
of bones was observed. Processing of anthropological
materials by specialists allowed to trace the peculiarities
of ethnic features and physical development of the
inhabitants of the site.
