Стаття присвячена результатам кластерного аналізу поховань ранньоскіфського часу Дніпровського Лісостепвого Лівобережжя. Виділяються
кластери та групи, які мають локальні та етнокультурні риси. Аналізуються поховальні споруди,
їх орієнтування та поховальний інвентар.
The article is devoted to the results of a cluster analysis
of the burials of the Early Scythian time of the
Dnieper forest-steppe Left Bank. Clusters and groups
are distinguished which have local and ethno-cultural
characteristics. The analysis made it possible to distinguish
two large blocks of clusters: the «Posulian» and
«Vorklinsky» clusters, which confirmed the previous
conclusions of the researchers.
An analysis of the orientation of the burials has
shown that the population of the Dnieper forest-steppe Left Bank of the Early Scythian time was dominated by
the idea of placing the world of the dead in the south, both among farmers and nomads. Deviation from the
basic orientation could be seasonal, or associated with the direction of the land of ancestors, or an important
landmark (Greater Skorobir for the Belsk necropolis). A necropolis is located in the village. Kupewaha, which
allows one to assume that it belongs to a fairly separate group of nomads.
In separate burial grounds there were recorded graves which belonged to different clusters. Burials of
Vorskla’s ordinary farmers were represented by clusters 6, 8, 10, and burials, most likely, nomads — cluster
9 and groups 11B and 11B. Clusters 5, 7, 12 have an indeterminate nature. The burial grounds can be
conditionally divided into necropolises of the local population, nomads and mixed ones.