THE ARMAMENT FROM THE SVITLOVODSK CEMETERY
Journal: Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine
Year: 2019

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