Статья посвящена рассмотрению комплекса
вооружения Светловодского могильника, расположенного на юге Днепровской Правобережной Лесостепи. Он представлен наконечниками стрел, копий, дротиков и их подтоками, а также мечами.
The weapon is one of the most representative categories
of material culture of the Scythians, entering
the «Scythian triad». Armaments are massive material
in the graves of not only Scythian nobles, but also ordinary
people. It is widely represented in the Svitlovodsk
burial ground in the south of the Dnieper Right-Bank
Forest-Steppe, where it was recorded in 75 tombs
(46.6 % of their total number). As a rule, a larger set of
weapons is characteristic of richer graves. More often it was revealed in male graves. But sometimes in women.
Sometimes there is a weapon in the graves of children and adolescents. The monument was investigated in
1975—1990. N. M. Boky and I. A. Kozyr. Most often, arrows are found in the graves of the necropolis: 707 objects,
originate from 73 burials (more than 45 %). The earliest products belong to the Middle Scythian time,
and most of them date from the IV century BC. Spears and darts were found in 13 graves (8 %). This burial
of wealthy fellow warriors. Swords are rare, they were only in 3 graves. The armament complex of the Svitlovodsk
repository in Central Ukraine shows us the military equipment of an ordinary Scythian community.
Despite the poor status of the departed, the level of militarization was high.
