Published: 2025-12-29

Site of Corded Ware Culture in Kavske, Sub-Carpathian Region: Change of Interpretation

Mariia Voitovych
Archaeologia Polona
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/APa63.2025.4184

Abstract

The article is devoted to two barrows of the Corded Ware Culture (CWC). Mounds I–II in Kavske in the Sub-Carpathian region (Ukraine), have until now been interpreted as the remains of a settlement of this culture. As a result of the analysis of the source base (archival materials and the museum collection), it was established that the CWC material in these mounds is represented by a small group of artefacts. On this basis, the interpretation of the mounds as the remains of a CWC settlement was refuted, instead, they were defined as burial places of the CWC. The planigraphy of the features and, where possible, movable material, is presented. The vast majority of the finds belong to the Funnel Beaker Culture (FBC), and it is clear that the barrow burial ground was founded on the remains of a FBC settlement (individual Mesolithic artefacts were also discovered). Imports of the Trypillia Culture were distinguished from the complex of FBC ceramic vessels. We date the construction of Barrows I–II of the CWC no earlier than the middle of the 3rd millennium BC and note a strong similarity of the ceramic material to the vessels of the Middle Dnipro Culture.

Keywords:

Mesolithic, Funnelbeaker culture, Trypillia Culture, Corded Ware Culture, Trzciniec-Komaróv Culture, Middle Dnipro Culture, barrow burial ground

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Voitovych, M. (2025). Site of Corded Ware Culture in Kavske, Sub-Carpathian Region: Change of Interpretation. Archaeologia Polona, 63, 295–335. https://doi.org/10.23858/APa63.2025.4184

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