TRYPILLIAN SETTLEMENT MAKARIVKA IN BUKOVYNA
Authors: YAKOVYSHYNA Yana 
Published: October 2023

The information about archaeological sites located near the village of Makarivka, Dnistrovskyi district, Chernivtsi region is collected and generalized in the article. Special attention is paid to the materials of the Trypillia culture. The results of the archaeological research conducted by the Dnister expedition of Lviv department of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR led by O. Chernysh near this village are considered. Namely, it is a small collection of finds from different periods, consisting mainly of flint products and preserved in the storage of the Department of Archeology. Based on the researcher's report, two locations were identified where archaeological material was found. The first – Pomirky tract, where ceramic sherds from the Slavic period were collected. The second – Schovb tract. Trypllian, Scythian, Slavic, and Paleolithic finds came from this place. An overview of information about the site from the scientific literature was made.

The results of the archaeological research conducted by the author near the Makarivka village on a large cape, formed by the Dnister river, are presented. Special attention is paid to the surveys of the plateau in the central part of the cape. Probably, it is the place where Trypllian materials were found in 1950. Among the locals, the name of this tract has not been preserved, so we do not know its exact location. Most of the finds were discovered on the slopes, on the plateau sherds of modern ceramics, natural stones, and flint without traces of knapping were mainly found. According to the results of the archaeological surveys conducted near the Makarivka village in 2022, it was established that there are three locations of different times on the territory of the cape: the location of the Mesolithic Age (core and three flint flakes) and the Chernyakhiv culture (two pottery sherds), located on the northern slope of the plateau. It is noted that flint products and a fragment of the wall of a ceramic vessel with a handle are quite typical for various stages of Trypillia culture, starting from Trypillia BI, so a more detailed definition of the relative chronology of the site based on them is impossible. The materials collected during archaeological surveys have been processed and published.

It was found that in scientific literature the name «Makarivka» was also related to another Trypillian site – Luka-Vrublivetska II. It was revealed that T. Passek used the new name, and then N. Vynogradova. The latter also attributed the settlement to the Zalischyky group of Trypillia culture. From the description of the ceramic complex of the site, and also taking into account the fragments published by N. Vynogradova, conclusions were drawn that agree with the definition of the relative chronology of Luka-Vrublivetska II, which was proposed by S. Bibikov, and it was assigned not to the Zalischyky group of the stage Trypillia BI– BII, but to the sites of the final of Trypillia BI. It was noted that the Luka-Vrublivetska II site is located on the high plateau of the left bank of the Dnister river 3–3.5 km northwest of the Luka-Vrublivetska village almost opposite the right-bank Makarivka khutir. It has been suggested that this very circumstance probably contributed to the fact that T. Passek, and later N. Vynogradova, renamed this site from Luka-Vrublivetska II to Makarivka. This change of the primary name of Luka-Vrublivetska II to Makarivka is uncaused and has created confusion in the literature. It is proposed to use the name assigned to the site by its discoverer S. Bibikov – Luka-Vrublivetsika II. Since Makarivka Trypillian settlement exists, located near the village of the same name, discovered by M. Rudynskyi i S. Bibikov O. Chernysh in 1950 and examined in 2022. In addition, the sites are situated not only on opposite banks of the Dnister river, but also in different regions of the country: Makarivka in Chernivtsi, and Luka-Vrublivetska II – in Khmelnytskyi.

Keywords: Eneolithic Age, ceramics, painted ornament, Makarivka, Luka-Vrublivetska II, relative chronology