Fibulae of Chervonyy Mayak Burial Ground

Abstract

Having analyzed of fibulae four chronological periods in the usage of the burial ground Chervony Mayak can be distinguished: the early stage (the second half of the 2nd century BC — the first half of the 1st century BC); the second stage (the second half of the 1st century BC — the first half of the 1st century AD) which is the time of appearance of the first Roman imports; the third «stage of heyday» (the second half of the 1st — the first half of the 2nd century AD) — the time of increase of population at the settlement, the emergence of the «Eastern wave» of Sarmatian migration and the Sarmatization of the Late Scythian culture; the final stage (the second half of 2nd century — the first half of the 3rd century AD), the time of the last Late Scythian funerals on the Chervony Mayak necropolis. The comparison of the number of fibulae with gender of the buried allows to research some patterns of the Late Scythian costume. The chronology of fibulae shows that one catacomb could be used for collective funeral no more than 50 years.