Open AccessSCYTHIAN TIME HILLFORTS IN THE DNIEPER LEFT-BANK FOREST-STEPPE: GENERAL CHARACTERIZATION, CATALOGUE, TYPOLOGY
Author(s) -
O. O. Bilynskyi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
arheologìâ ì davnâ ìstorìâ ukraïni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-6143
pISSN - 2227-4952
DOI - 10.37445/adiu.2018.01.13
Subject(s) - typology , settlement (finance) , constructive , steppe , geography , square (algebra) , population , position (finance) , archaeology , computer science , mathematics , sociology , demography , geometry , business , process (computing) , finance , world wide web , payment , operating system
The article represents general characteristics of the scythian time hillforts in the Dnieper left-bank forest-steppe. The reasons of building the hillforts, history of their investigations and existing typologies are described. Based on the investigation of constructive solutions which were used by scythian time population the typology of hillforts is offered. Analysys of natural conditions of the sites helped to construct typology of geomorphological position of the hillforts and analysys of the square of the sites gave the posibility to make classification by the square. Consequently any hillfort can be described by three main characteristics: construction, geomorphology, square. It helps to avoid subjective assessment of hillfort functions and to separate characteristics which form the type. Settlement system of the hillforts was analysed separately by main left Dneiper feeders. This approach allows to define a difference in settlement system and find out a special construction solutions which were used by scythian time population. In addition, the catalogue of the hillforts in left-bank Dnieper region is included in the article.