Oleksandra Kozak

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | ISP · Institute of Archaeology

The article deals with archaeological, anthropological and archaeozoological material of the one of foothill cemetery in Crimea. One of the most interesting historical periods is the Late Scythian and the development of the Crimean Scythia. This is the subject of research on materials from the Prehistoric Expedition of the Institute of Archeology o...

This article discusses the absolute chronology of burials from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC discovered under the mounds of three barrows in the Kordyshiv cemetery in western Ukraine. Its aim is to create a chronological model of the burials by modeling 27 AMS 14 C dates obtained from 21 individuals buried in single and collective graves. Dietary an...

This paper underlines the importance of the small sample effects consideration in paleopathological research providing an example of children from Kyiv Rus' cemeteries dated to the 10th-13th century AD. The study presents data introduction and systematization, i.e., construction of the statistically significant disease profiles combining the analyz...

The remains of 8 individuals were identified in the Bilyi Potik and Ozeriany burial complexes discovered in 2020—2021. Five of them were identified as males and two as females. Some teeth of an elder child were also discovered. The paleopathological study revealed a set of diseases typical of the Ukrainian Globular Amphorae Culture (GAC). Among the...

THE LATE VIKING-AGE CEMETERY OF OSTRIV, located approximately 80 km south of Kyiv in the region along the Ros’ River, was discovered by the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine team in 2017. By 2020, 67 inhumation graves had been excavated in an area of 1400 sq m. Most of the artefacts from Ostriv are uncommon in...

Discussed in the article, the multi-burial grave from Ilyatka (Staraya Sinyava district, Khmelnytskyi province, Ukraine) is the first feature of the Globular Amphora culture in the drainage basin of the upper Southern Bug to be subjected to comprehensive bioarchaeological and chronological analyses. The time when the remains of seven people (four m...

In 2013 near Kustorivka village of Krasnokutsky district, Kharkov region the Scythian burial mound (5th—4th centuries BC.) was excavated. The inserted burial of a beheaded man has been discovered there. Fragments of horse bones, horse harness, numerous arrowheads, the spearhead and knife were unearthed in the grave. Funeral inventory dates the buri...

The monograph presents the results of archaeological excavations and surveys of sites, located on the northeastern outskirts of the village of Ratniv (Volyn region, Ukraine). At the multi-layered settlement Ratniv-II, the research that began in 2014 (being prepared for publication) was continued. The approximate size of the settlement from west to...

Anthropological material comes from three burial grounds from the territory of Lower Town excavated in 2003—2004. The skulls of these populations were measured and studied by classical anthropological methods, and their comparative analysis was conducted by the methods of multivariate statistic (factors analysis). The main characteristics of the un...

Introduction. The aim of the study is to identify the causes of differences in the diseases profile, as well as sex and age indicators of different groups of people of the Yamnaja and Babino cultures buried in Sugoklea barrow on the border of the steppe and forest-steppe areals of the Nothern Pontic region. Methods. The basic classical methods for...

The funeral rite is a complex ritual process. It combines traditional worldview norms and rituals, includes various stages — the preparatory, process of burial and post-funeral actions as the funeral fest etc. From the archaeological point of view, the funeral rite is considered as the system of interrelated features which includes the funeral meth...

The children’s graves at the cemeteries of the Chernyakhiv / Sоntana de Mureş culture are the relevant problem for the archaeology of the period. Children’s burials at the cemeteries of this culture have been the subject of special study for more than fifteen years. At the cemetery Voytenky 15 graves of children of various ages were discovered (gra...

The paper presents the hypothetical version of a complex of anthropological, demographic and pathological signs or markers, which, to the opinion of the author, reflects the structural elements of migration. The aim of the study is to show and summarize the relationship between the migration components from one hand, diseases and selective mortalit...

The paper analyzes some pathological marks as well as non-pathological features observed in the two male skeletal samples from the burials recently discovered in the Sugokleya barrow (Ukraine): one is attributed to the Pit Grave culture, and the other to the Ingul Catacomb culture. The intravital and perimortal injuries' patterning, as well as the...

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In the cities of the Middle Ages children was the most sensitive group of people who responded to starvation, infection and social stress with high mortality rate and increased morbidity. 7 children’s burials (one belongs to twins of 6—9 month), located relatively compact on the outskirts of the lower city, were investigated in this project. Most c...

The paper presents the hypothetical version of a complex of anthropological, demographic and pathological signs or markers, which, to the opinion of the author, reflects the structural elements of migration. The aim of the study is to show and summarize the relationship between the migration components from one hand, diseases and selective mortalit...

European farmers' first strides from the south The early spread of farmers across Europe has previously been thought to be part of a single migration event. David Reich and colleagues analyse genome-wide data from 225 individuals who lived in southeastern Europe and the surrounding regions between 12000 and 500 BC. They analyse this in combination...

Farming was first introduced to southeastern Europe in the mid-7th millennium BCE - brought by migrants from Anatolia who settled in the region before spreading throughout Europe. However, the dynamics of the interaction between the first farmers and the indigenous hunter-gatherers remain poorly understood because of the near absence of ancient DNA...

The author studies postmortem, perimortem and antemortem changes on human skeletal remains uncovered in a pit near the Desiatynna Church (Church of the Tithes) in Kiev. Disarticulated bones were attributed to 8 (13) adult and 6 children of different age groups. Anthropological and pathological conditions marked most of these individuals as regular...