Ще раз про обряд поховання носіїв роменської культури

• Published in: Археологія і давня історія України
• Date: 2021
• Main Author: Бібіков, Д.В.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут археології НАН України 2021
• Subjects: Раннє середньовіччя
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/187517
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Ще раз про обряд поховання носіїв роменської культури / Д.В. Бібіков // Археологія і давня історія України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: ІА НАН України, 2021. — Вип. 3 (40). — С. 141-154. — Бібліогр.: 60 назв. — укр.

Стаття присвячена всебічному аналізу поховального обряду роменської культури та окремих
 його елементів. The study of the funeral rite of the Eastern Slavs
 and the dynamics of its development is important for
 the clarification of the religious, state-creating, ethnocultural
 and social processes of the Old Rus formation.
 In the paper the author makes a new attempt of the
 comprehensive analysis of the burial sites of chronicle
 Severians who are identified with the bearers of Romenska
 archaeological culture. For this purpose, the
 most complete and reliable catalogue of these sites included
 142 items has been created.
 Statistical calculations show at the main part of the
 Dnieper Left Bank in the 9th—10th centuries the dominance
 of cremation rites away from the burial, placing
 the urn in the upper levels of the mound. Burials of
 this type are at least 82 % of Romenska culture cremations.
 They are reflected in literary sources. Burials at
 the level of the horizon and in small holes should be
 considered only as a few deviations from the classical
 Romenski rite. Burials of these types are characterized
 by such specific elements as circular wooden fences
 and ritual hearths, and most of them do not contain
 the urns. Differences in the funeral rites of the Dnieper
 Left Bank can be explained by the reasons of both ethnographic
 and chronological nature.
 In the second half of the 10th century in the Severians
 area a few cremations are recorded at the places
 of burial. No Romenska culture pottery or ornaments
 were found in any of these complexes: they all contained
 exclusively the Old Rus materials. There is
 no doubt that the rite of cremation at the place was
 brought to the Dnieper Left Bank by settlers from the
 Middle Dnieper together with the establishment of the
 Kyiv Princes power.
 Radical changes in the Romenski funeral rite occur in
 the late 10th — early 11th centuries. The rite of inhumation
 at the level of the horizon becomes dominant, less
 often in the mound pits. Although a number of scholars
 link these changes to the socio-economic changes in society
 the author considers it possible to explain them
 only by the total Christianization of the newly acquired
 territories by Kyiv. It is likely that the cremation of the
 dead was strictly forbidden by the church.