У статті зроблено спробу прослідкувати розвиток традицій кольорової металообробки у Північному Причорномор’ї в ранньому залізному віці
і співвіднести їх із змінами етнічного складу в
регіоні. В IX ст. до н. е. в степовій смузі з’явились
перші кочовики, які користувались металевими вудилами із стременоподібними кінцями. В VIII ст.
до н. е. приходить нова хвиля кочовиків, у яких в
оздобленні коней були двокільчасті вудила. Разом
з появою саме цих кочовиків відбуваються суттєві
зміни у житті місцевого населення.
The article attempts to trace the development of
non-ferrous metalworking traditions in the Northern
Black Sea region in the early Iron Age and to correlate
them with changes in the ethnic composition of the region.
In the IX century BC. The first nomads appeared
in the steppe zone, who used metal rods with stirruplike
ends. In the VIII century BC. BC comes a new
wave of nomads, who in the decoration of horses were
two-ringed rods. Along with the emergence of these nomads
there are significant changes in the lives of the
local population. First of all, the agricultural tribes of
the Belozersky culture disappeared in the steppe, the
forest-steppe farmers of the Chornolisky culture began
to fortify their settlements on the border of the steppe
and forest-steppe strip and partially migrated to the
left bank of the Dnieper. Burials of horsemen-horsemen,
accompanied by two-ringed fishing rods, also appear
in the forest-steppe. At the same time, there are
changes in the traditions of non-ferrous metals. If at
the end of the Bronze Age the North Black Sea foundries
used metal from Carpathian and Balkan sources,
then with the advent of nomads first appeared metal
from Ural and Siberian deposits, which corresponds to
the Montenegrin stage, and then metal from the North
Caucasus, which corresponds to the Novocherkassk
stage.Drawing analogies with the antiquities from the
Arzhan mound in the Altai, we can conclude that at
the Montenegrin stage in the Northern Black Sea coast
appeared the first early Scythian tribes, natives of Siberia
and Altai, who displaced Belozertsy, and at the
Novocherkassk stage there were nomads who can to
be considered the historical Cimmerians mentioned in
ancient Greek and Asia Minor sources, and from whom
the blacks and the Bondarikhins escaped. It was the
Cimmerians of the Novocherkassk stage who fought
the Urartian king Rus I in the Caucasus, and then supported
the Median rebels against Assyria in 663 BC.