Булавки с петельчатой головкой эпохи поздней бронзы

Abstract

Pins with a looped head are one of the most common type of pins in the Late Bronze Age in the North Black Sea region. This type of adornments includes pins, the upper part of the rod of which is rolled into a loop in less than two turns. The pins have two variants: 1) with a head rolled into a ring (rounded or quadrangular in cross section), and 2) with a riveted head rolled into a tube. About 50 pins with a looped head of the Late Bronze Age are known in Ukraine. They were found on the sites of the Tshinets cultural community (Galician, Volyn, Kiev-Cherkasy, Kiev-Zhytomyr, Sosnitsa groups), the cultural circle of Noua-Sabatinovka, in the western area of Belozerka culture. Mapping of these pins shows their distribution in the Middle and Lower Dnieper region, in the Dniester and Prut basins, in Volyn, in Podolia, in the North-West Black Sea region. Such pins appear no later than the 15th c. BC in the Komarov culture of the Tshinets cultural circle and in the final period of the Late Bronze Age were widely distributed on the sites of the Belogrudovka horizon and in the Belozerka culture (12th-11th cc. BC). Pins with a looped head in the period of the final bronze / late pre-Scythian period are known on the sites of the advanced stage of the Chernoles culture, in the Wysocko and Lusatian cultures. This type of adornments lives to the Scythian time, preserving at the new historical stage remnants of local cultural traditions. The different nature of the rod bending of pins with a looped head probably reflects different ways of fastening them.