Вознесенский комплекс: Проблемы хронологии и интерпретации

Abstract

The article looks at all basic opinions about dating of "Voznesenka" complex. The author has come to a conclusion that the dating generally accepted now for the complex is in most cases taken a priori. Having analyzed a number of artefacts on the basis of dated analogues and having compared a part of finds with their analogues in the burials dated by coins, the author concluded that the complex should probably be dated earlier than is commonly accepted, namely to the first half of the 7th century, and more specifically to the 20s-30s of the century. A great number of various objects in the Voznesenka complex with numerous similarities among the artefacts from Central and Eastern European complexes of the same time enables one to unite them and specify as the “Voznesenka" horizon.