The Globular Amphora Culture on the territory of Western Palessye: history if research and current state of studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33581/2520-6338-2020-2-91-102

Abstract

In the history of the archaeological research of the Globular Amphora Culture on the territory of Western Palessye, two periods are distinguished. U. F. Isayenka was the first who pointed out the presence of Globular Amphora Culture elements on the South­Western region of Belarus in the second half of the 1960s. In the 1960–90s the issue of the Globular Amphora Culture on the area of interest to us appeared on the margins of studies of other cultures. The works had been based on the cultural bricks theory. Since the end of the 1990s the polythetic notion of the Globular Amphora Culture had been suggested (M. Szmyt). The special study on the Globular Amphora Culture on the territory of Western Palessye had begun (M. M. Kryvaltsevich, A. U. Vaitovich (Zuyeva)). The publications consider mostly aspects of the systematization and identification of the traits genetically linked to the Globular Amphora Culture in the local cultural environment. On the current stage of research, the expansion of the source database is needed. The issue of the chronology of the spreading of the Globular Amphora Culture traditions in the area in question requires more detailed study. Top priority should also be given to a thorough investigation of the problem of the role of the Globular Amphora Culture in the socio­economic transformation of the Western Palessye population in the 3rd – the beginning 2nd millenium BC.

Author Biography

Aliaksandra U. Vaitovich, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (archaeology); associate professor at the department of archaeology and special historical disciplines, faculty of history

References

  1. Isayenko VF, Cherniavsky MM. [New data on the controversial issues of the Bronze Age of Belarus]. In: Buďko VD, editor. Belorusskie drevnosti. Doklady k konferentsii po arkheologii Belorussii; yanvar’ – fevral’ 1966 g.; Minsk, BSSR [Belarusian antiquities. Materials of the conference on the archaeology of Belarus; 1966 January – February; Minsk, BSSR]. Minsk: Academy of Science of BSSR; 1967. p. 155–187. Russian.
  2. Zuyeva AU. The history of the investigation of the Globular Amphora Culture on the territory of Belarus at the end of 20th – the beginning of 21st century.Vesnik BDU. Seryja 3. Gistoryja. Jekanomika. Prava. 2009;2:3–7. Belarusian.
  3. Tkachov O. [Preliminary results of archaeological research of the Stone Age and Bronze Age sites within the area of Białoweża Forest]. In: Stankiewicz U, Wawrusiewicz A, redaktorzy. Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu. Białystok: Instytucja kultury woj. Podlaskiego; 2011. s. 229–236. Belarusian.
  4. Kaletchyc AG. Chalavek i asjaroddze: kamenny vek, Zahodnjae Palesse [The man and the environment: the Stone Age, the West Palessye]. Minsk: Belaruskaja navuka; 2018. 584 p. Belarusian.
  5. Isayenka UF. [The Stone Age. The transition from the pre­society to the kinship relations]. In: Kastsiuk MP, editor. Narysy gistoryi Belarusi. Chastka 1 [Essays on the history of Belarus. Part 1]. Minsk: Belarus; 1994. p. 9–29. Russian.
  6. Clarke DL. Analytical archaeology. 2nd edition. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd; 1971. 684 p.
  7. Klein LS. Arkheologicheskaya tipologiya [Archaeological typology]. Leningrad: Academy of Science of USSR; 1991. 448 p. Russian.
  8. Kryvaltsevich MM. Mogil’nik sjarjedziny III–II tys. da n. je. na Verhnim Dnjapry – Prorva-1 [Prorva­1 – a cemetery of the middle 3rd – early 2nd millennium BC on the Upper Dnieper]. Minsk: Institute of the History, National Academy of Science of Belarus; 2006. 202 p. Belarusian.
  9. Brusov AJa. Ocherki po istorii plemen evropeiskoi chasti SSSR v neoliticheskuyu epokhu [Essays on the history of the tribes of the European part of the USSR in the Neolithic]. Moscow: Academy of the Science of USSR; 1952. 360 p. Russian.
  10. Wiślański T. Kultura amfor kulistych w Polsce północno-zachodniej. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich; 1966. 286 s.
  11. Szmyt M. Between West and East. People of the Globular Amphora Culture in Eastern Europe: 2960–2350 BC. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University; 1999. 350 р. (Baltic­Pontic Studies; volume 8).
  12. Isayenko VF. Arkheologicheskaya karta Belorussii. Vypusk 1. Pamyatniki kamennogo veka [Archaeological map of Belarus. Issue 1. The Stone Age sites]. Minsk: Polymja; 1968. 125 p. Russian.
  13. Isayenko VF, Mitrofanov AG, Shtychov GV, editors. Ocherki po arkheologii Belorussii. Chast’ 1. Kamennyi i bronzovyi veka [Essays on the archaeology of Belarus. Part 1. Stone Age and Bronze Age]. Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika; 1970. 271 p. Russian.
  14. Isayenko VF. Neolit Pripyatskogo Poles’ya [The Neolithic on the Pripyat Polesye]. Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika; 1976. 128 p. Russian.
  15. Isaenka UF. [Ethnocultural environment on the territory of the prehistoric Palessye]. In: Klimchuk FD, editor. Zagaroddze-2. Matjeryjaly navukova-krajaznawchaj kanferjencyi; verasen’ 1999 g.; Pinsk, Belarus [Zagaroddze­2. Materials of the conference on the local history; 1999 September; Pinsk, Belarus]. Minsk: Tjehnalogija; 2000. p. 7–14. Belarusian.
  16. Isayenko VF. Arkheologicheskaya karta Belorussii. Vypusk 3. Pamyatniki bronzovogo veka [Archaeological map of Belarus. Issue 3. The Bronze Age sites]. Minsk: Polymia; 1976. 150 p. Russian.
  17. Isayenko VF. [Polesie in the prehistoric epoch]. In: Tolstoy NI, editor. Poles’e i etnogenez slavyan. Predvaritel’nye materialy i tezisy konferentsii [Polesie and the ethnogenesis of the Slavs. Preliminary materials and abstracts of the conference]. Moscow: Nauka; 1983. p. 16–17. Russian.
  18. Isayenko VF. [The first Belarus farmers and pastoralists]. In: Shabunia KI, editor. Iz istorii krest’yanstva Belorussii. Sbornik statei po materialam pervoi sessii respublikanskogo simpoziuma po istorii sel’skogo khozyaistva i krest’yanstva Belorussii; dekabr’ 1975 g.; Minsk, BSSR [From the history of the peasantry of Belarus. The collection of the papers of the first session of the republican symposium on the history of agriculture and the peasantry of Belarus; 1975 December; Minsk, BSSR]. Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika; 1978. p. 5–15. Russian.
  19. Zagorulskij EM. Drevnyaya istoriya Belorussii: ocherki etnicheskoi istorii i material’noi kul’tury (do IX v.) [Ancient history of Belarus: essays on the ethnic history and material culture (before 9th century)]. Minsk: Belarusian State University; 1977. 134 p. Russian.
  20. Isayenko VF. [The primitive cultures of Polesie]. In: Shtychov GV, editor. Belorusskaya arkheologiya: dostizheniya arkheologov za gody sovetskoi vlasti [Belarusian archaeology: the archievements of the archaeologists during the Soviet period]. Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika; 1987. p. 15–26. Russian.
  21. Szmyt M. Eastern European Destinations of Central European cultural patterns. The case of the Globular Amphora Culture: end of the 4th – middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Baltic-Pontic Studies. 2009;14:232–251.
  22. Makarowicz P. Rola społeczności kultury iwieńskiej w genezie trzcinieckiego kręgu kulturowego (2000–1600 BC). Poznań: Universytet imienia A. Mickiewicza; 1998. 454 s.
  23. Tassi F,Vai S, Shirotto S, Lari M. Genome diversity in the Neolithic Globular Amphorae culture and the spread of IndoEuropean languages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2017;284:20171540. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1540.
  24. Szmyt M. Społeczności kultury amfor kulistych w Europie Wschodniej. W: Czebreszuk J, Kryvaltsevič M, Makarowicz P, redaktorzy. Od neolityzacji do początków epoki brązu. Przemiany kulturowe w międzyrzeczu Odry i Dniepru między VI i II tys. przed Chr. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie; 2001. s. 167–193.
  25. Kryvaltsevich MM. [Belarusian Palessye on the turn of Neolithic and Bronze Age: issues and prospects of archaeological research]. In: Kośko A, Kalečyc A, redaktorzy. Wspólnota dziedzictwa kulturowegoziem Białorusii Polski. Warszawa: Krajowy ośrodek badań i dokumentacji zabytków; 2004. s. 137–162. Belarusian.
  26. Kryvaltsevich M. [New research results of the Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age in West Palessye]. In: Stankiewicz U, Wawrusiewicz A, redaktorzy. Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu. Białystok: Instytucja kultury wojwodstwa Podlaskiego; 2011. s. 207–217. Belarusian.
  27. Kryvaltsevich M, Isayenka U, Majsenia S. [The pottery of the «Corded» and «Trzciniec» horizons of the site Kamien­2 (Western Palessye)]. Gistarychna-arhealagichny zbornik. 2003;18:69–91. Belarusian.
  28. Kryvaltsevich MM. [The «Corded Horizon» in Belarus: questions of identification and origins]. In: Czebreszuk J, Kryvaltsevič M, Makarowicz P, redaktorzy. Od neolityzacji do początków epoki brązy. Przemiany kulturowe w międzyrzeczu Odry i Dniepru między VI i II tys. przed Chr. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie; 2001. s. 259–275. Belarusian.
  29. Obuchowski W. Zabytki krzemienne i kamienne od paleolitu do wczesnej epoki żelaza z terenów Białorusi w zbiorach Państwowego Museum Archeologicznego w Warszawie. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo PMA; 2003. 208 s.
  30. Abukhouski VS, Zuyeva AU, Sidarovich VM. [Quadrangular flint banded articles in the collection of the National Museum of History and Culture of Belarus]. Acta Achaeologica Albaruthenica. 2008;3:17–41. Belarusian.
  31. Charniauski MM. [The Neolithic with Prick­Comband Prick Potteryin Western Belarus. Evolution characteristics]. W: Czebreszuk J, Kryvaltsevič M, Makarowicz P, redaktorzy. Od neolityzacji do początków epoki brązy. Przemiany kulturowe w międzyrzeczu Odry i Dniepru między VI i II tys. przed Chr. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie; 2001. s. 231–240. Belarusian.
  32. Wawrusewicz A. Taksonomiczne podstawy identyfikacji tradycji kultury pucharów lejkowatych w środowisku strefy leśnej Europy Wschodniej. Perspectywa subneolitu kontynentalnego. Matjeryjaly pa arhealogii Belarusi. 2010;18:131–146.
  33. Kryvaltsevich M. Die Rolle der Kugelamphorenkultur bei der Entwicklung der Gesellschaften des oberen Dnjeprgebietes. In: Beran J, Einecke R, Schimpff V, Wagner K, Weber Th, editors. Lehren – Sammeln – Publizieren. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitеtsverlag; 2016. S. 231–244.
  34. Vaitovich AV. The role of the Globular Amphora Culture in the development of the Upper Neman communities. Samarskii nauchnyi vestnik. 2019;8(2):106–114. Russian.
  35. Charniauski M, Vaitovich А. The Globular Amphora culture and its influences on the Belarusian Lakeland (according to the materials of the Kryvina peat bog). In: Szmyt M, editor. Vir Bimaris. From Kujawy Cradle to Black Sea Steppes. Studies on the Prehistory of the Baltic-Pontic Between-the-Seas. In Recognition of Professor Aleksander Kośko. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University; 2019. p. 609–620. Belarusian.
  36. Kryvaltsevich MM. [The first people on the territory of Belarusian Palessye: Stone Age and Bronze Age]. In: Kavalienia AA, editor. Belarus’ praz pryzmu rjegijanal’naj gistoryi: Prypjackae Palesse [Belarus through the prism of the regional history]. Minsk: Belaruskaja navuka; 2016. p. 8–37. Belarusian.
  37. Kryvaltsevich MM. [From the investigation of the Late Bronze Age in the South of Belarus]. In: Kośko A, Czebreszuk J, redaktorzy. «Trzciniec» – system kulturowy czy interkulturowy process? Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie; 1998. s. 345–353. Belarusian.
  38. Kaleczyc А, Michalczuk W. Mikroregion Motolski (Polesie Zachodnie) w perspektywie procesów interstadium epok neolitu i brązu. Ujęcie genezy horyzontu trzcinieckiego. W: Stankiewicz U, Wawrusiewicz A, redaktorzy. Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu. Białystok: Instytucja kultury wojwodstwa Podlaskiego; 2011. s. 267–278.
  39. Kryvaltsevich MM. [The issues of periodization and chronology of Bronze Age on the territory of Southern Belarus]. Gistarychna-arhealagichny zbornik. 2006;22:39–52. Belarusian.
  40. Białowarczuk М, Gawrońska J. Kultura amfor kulistych w przemianach późnego neolitu i wczesnej epoki brązu w północno­wschodniej Polsce. W: Stankiewicz U, Wawrusiewicz A, redaktorzy. Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu. Białystok: Instytucja kultury wojwodstwa Podlaskiego; 2011. s. 109–120.
Published
2020-04-16
Keywords: historiography, Globular Amphora Culture, cultural identification, Western Palessye, Neolithic, Bronze Age
Supporting Agencies The author expresses sincere gratitude to A. G. Kaletchyc, М. M. Kryvaltsevich, V. М. Sidarovich, V. G. Beliavets, A. M. Vashanau for the opportunity to use their materials for research.
How to Cite
Vaitovich A. U. The Globular Amphora Culture on the territory of Western Palessye: history if research and current state of studies // Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 2020. 2. PP. 91-102.
Issue
No 2 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History
Section
Archaeology

Copyright (c) 2020 Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The authors who are published in this journal agree to the following:

  1. The authors retain copyright on the work and provide the journal with the right of first publication of the work on condition of license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  2. The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in this journal.
  3. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the journal, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work. (See The Effect of Open Access.)