Late Zarubintsy sites of the Rakhny type and their correlation with the Sarmatian antiquities from the Southern Bug - Dniester interstream area

The article considers the possible correlation between post-Zarubintsy sites of the Rakhny type (1st ― 2nd cc. AD) with the Sarmatian antiquities of the Southern Bug ― Dniester interstream area (Porogi, Grushka, Pisarevka, Severinovka, Gordeevka, Mokra). Detailed analysis of objects of personal attire from the post-Zarubintsy settlements of Maryanovka, Rakhny, Nosovtsy, Parkhomovka and the burial site at Rakhny showed that many categories of the items have analogies in the Middle Sarmatian culture. This could indicate close contacts between the sedentary and the nomadic populations of the Southern Bug and Dniester regions in the 1st ― beginning of the 2nd cc. AD. It is possible that the post-Zarubintsy population paid tribute to the Sarmatians. The remains of metallurgical centers that were investigated near Uman' could reflect the results of such contacts between the nomads and the post-Zarubintsy population. Tribute to nomad tribes was often paid in metal. The artifacts which are considered in the present article could have found their way to the sedentary population as a result of such contacts.