Walenty Pankowski

• PhD
• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The paper scrutinizes the red deer hard tissues from the contexts attributed to the Trypillia Culture’s final phases. Having once been reported elsewhere, the objects under study are this time conceptualized in terms of shape-and trace formation processes, with an eye to incorporating them into research advances under the topic of the late Trypilli...

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A documented and systematized account is given for a curious ivory artifact discovered in the Early Scythian habitation context. It represents a bulk of dentine taken from a grooved and riveted joint and reshaped into a wedged tool. The sequence of its origins, transformations and uses is complexly refl ected by a variety of shape alterations and su...

Makohonienko M. and Słowiński M. 2023. Was Gordineşti II-Stînca goală abandoned due to cultural changes or environmental impacts? The case of the late Trypillia settlement in northern Moldova. Sprawozdania Ar-cheologiczne 75/1, 51-75. This study aims to provide information on cultural and environmental factors influencing the development and declin...

The book contains stories in a popular manner based on bird observations. The author shares the impressions received during ornithological excursions, describes the birds of some environment landscapes, as well as particularly interesting cases in the relationship of man with aves. The book chapters highlight the conditions of birds’ life, the pecu...

A specialized vision of a "sphere of the archaic" is proposed. Extraterrestrial archaeosphere, humanly modified ground, fossil reality, archaeological record, and totality of archaeological objects are among the concepts that have contributed to the newer construct. The archaeosphere's form, nature, essence, and function are revealed by analyzing i...

Valentine Pankowski, Gulzada Sargizova The Late Bronze Age Industry of Bone and Antler from Taldysai: A Systematic Research A draft report on accumulative selection of the worked bone and antler sample recovered in a long-inhabited site is provided. The review is upgraded with a synopsis of the classificatory procedures applied. Key words: Centra...

Valentine Pankowski, Gulzada Sargizova The Late Bronze Age Industry of Bone and Antler from Taldysai: A Systematic Research A draft report on accumulative selection of the worked bone and antler sample recovered in a long-inhabited site is provided. The review is upgraded with a synopsis of the classificatory procedures applied. Key words: Centra...

The paper represents some remarkable interments of the palaeometallic epoch, and a cemetery arranged according to the Christian rites, which were recovered in the barrow explored by V.A. Kruts in 1977. A sample of the headband equipment from the horses’ double burial may evidently signalize that these representatives of a specific ornamental style...

In: Археологічні дослідження Більського городища – 2018 / ЦП НАН України і УТОПІК; ІКЗ «Більськ»; [відп. ред. І. І. Корост, наук. ред. О. Б. Супруненко; ред. колегія: Д. С. Гречко, І. Б. Шрамко та ін.]. Київ-Котельва: ЦП НАН України і УТОПІК. An animal style cheekpiece made of deer antler is attributed to the early stage of the forest-steppe Scythi...

The paper aims to analyze thirteen modified bone and antler objects obtained recently from the Tripolye and Funnel Beaker mutual habitat of the Early Bronze Age. The settlement site of Kurgany-Dubova has yielded three pointed rib objects of the same tool type, a pointed metapodial tool of another tool type, and a humanly modified osteological sampl...

The paper explores two different approaches within the seemingly holistic theory of cultural genesis developed for eastern European prehistoric studies. The first approach puts at the forefront the vast areal and continuous diffusive pulsation from the huge complex centres outwards to the periphery, while another one focuses on rapid accumulation o...

The group of barrows called “Glinoe/Orchard” contained the barrow mound No.1 where the catacomb grave (No.11) of a rare type with a set of three dice made of red deer antler tines has been discovered. Before now, only five graves attributed to the Ingul Catacomb Graves Culture containing such gaming paraphernalia were reported. Also, a friable and...

In the late 13th — early 12th century BC, a fortified settlement was built in the very place, where the heart of the modern city of Nikolaev (Ukraine) is currently located. A set of tools and weapons was hidden inside or, maybe, next to a dwelling, and included a few socketed axes, a spearhead, and a razor- or saw-like blade tool. The authors prese...

The paper analyses some specific raw material modifications in the artifacts attributed to the archaic stage of the forest-steppe Scythian culture. A sample from the complex, so-called ashmound, contains a horse metacarpal skate, abraded talus bones, horse mandible hide breakers, a staple cutting lamella made of a rib, and a semi-finished arrowhead...

The site has been discovered by 1964 in a terrain called Laz’kivs’ki Stavky (district Zin’kiv, region Poltava, Ukraine) that seems to mean ponds used by Laz’ky villagers. The ash mound No.1 excavated during 2017’s field campaign was revealed to contain evidence from the early Scythian times culture dated back to the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 7th...

Two contexts attributed to the later half of the Tripolye СІІ stage are reported to yeild similar dagger-like bone artifacts. One of them was recently discovered in Kurgany-Dubova, and another was found long ago in the burial ground of Ofatinţi. The use-wear modications seem to cluster upon broad side as well as within xing eyelet of the object fro...

Some specific furrows of slightly waving shape which consist of small delved pits have been detected in naturally drilled bones found at the burial ground beneath the Scythian barrow mound of Alexandropol. We presume these bore holes to be pupation chambers made by scavenger beetles’ larvae of the family Trogidae

The paper aims to survey current systematizing developments for the osseous industries dated back to the 6th-2nd centuries BC in the Northwest Pontic area. These trends, however, appear to be applicable to any of the many worked-bone-containing parts in the whole archaeological oecumene. The readers are introduced to the classificatory concepts whi...

The paper surveys current trends in systematizing bone and antler industries dated back to the 5th-1st millennia BC in the North Pontic area. The principles in question, however, seem to be adaptable to any of the many bone and antler contents of the Earth’s archaeosphere. The reader is introduced to the classificatory concept of the author’s own w...

The paper analyzes raw materials structure, manufacture techniques, and functions in some bone and lithic tools and accessories found in 1992 at Faschevka settlement site located at the Mius river headstream in the Donets Ridge area, district Perevalsk, region of Lugansk. The objects of bone comprise the horse metatarsal skate of the “Sadchikovskiy...

V.B. Pankovskiy BONE BUCKLE CHAÎNE OPÉRATOIRE IN THE BABINE CULTURE Since recent times our acquaintance with technology of bone and antler buckles of the 3rd – 2nd millennia BC appears in the guise of a formalized list with nine processing stages included, all fitted with various techniques. The situationally permutable stages may imply and in ma...

The 4th century BC antler artefact has been recently reported from “The Sluiceway” group of barrows, a part of the cemetery of Glinoe near Slobozia on the left bank of the Dniester River. Here, the entire form of the hardly fragmented item from the grave no.12 of the barrow no.2 is reconstructed which contains ornamental border and a scene above it...

The 4th century BC antler artefact has been recently reported from "The Sluiceway" (russ. "Vodovod") group of barrows, a part of the cemetery of Glinoe near Slobodzeia on the left bank of the Dniester River. Here, the entire form of the hardly fragmented item from grave no.12 of barrow no.2 is reconstructed which contains ornamental border and a sc...

Pankovskiy V.B. , Antipina Ye.Ye. A new category in the Late Bronze Age bone industries Some animal bones furrowed with cut marks were once thought to be burnishers, beamers or pallet knives. According to use-wear study and model experiments, they rather served as devices of wool processing. An applicable form of the available raw material and also...

Published in the comparably recent past, the antler tine cheekpiece has long been excluded from the research database because of the insoluble contradictions in attributing the Late Sabatynivka – Early Bilozerka context of the Ushkalka-I site on the basis of typological concepts of the 1950s. Since that time, some archaeologists seem to attribute i...

V. Pankovskiy Examining Raw Materials and Surface Modifications in Bone and Antler Objects from Glinoe Cemetery Twenty-four Late Scythian and Late Sarmatian bone and antler objects have been recently studied by means of traceological analysis. These are elk antler girth buckle, as well as knife handles, another girth buckle, string end beads, neck...

The article explores the Palaeometal age finds from Faschevka settlement site at the Mius river headstream in the Donets Ridge area. Collection of artifacts presents the Dereivka culture (4300-3700 ВС), the Dnieper-Don Babino culture (2200-1800 BC) and the group related to the Wood-framed Graves culture. Complex of the last one contains pottery fin...

Among different artifact types within the assemblage from grave no. 3 of barrow III of Slobozia cemetery, the horse bridle sets, with eight cheek bits included, seem to be especially remarkable. The research was aimed to reveal techniques and modes by which these examples of antler industry were produced and used in the beginning of the 1st millenn...

V. Pankovskiy, E. Girya, M. Sablin Distinctions between prehistoric artworks and naturally altered faunal remains in the light of traceological studies Natural (pathological, invasive) modifications and manmade alterations on hard tissues from living organisms are complementary and, while comparing to each other on the basis of the use-wear analysi...

V.B. Pankovskiy FROM THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH OF EQUIPMENT FOR METAL PRODUCTION IN THE WOOD-FRAMED GRAVES CULTURES Some special Late Bronze Age ore-dressing tools in the form of slightly worked animal bones with peculiar use-wear marks were recently discovered in great numbers in Donets and Volga-Ural areas. These became an asset to archaeological...

The bronze hoard from the woods near Krestische (dist. Slavyansk, reg. Donetsk, Ukraine). The paper presents the complex of items attributed to the 2nd stage of the Berezhnovka-Maiovka culture (LBA-IV period). It contains socketed axe, adze, and chisel. The objects in question constitute one of those tool kits for woodwork which have typically been...

PANKOVSKIY Valentin, FILATOV Dmitriy New Bone Industry Samples from Rozanivka settlement The report discusses raw material properties, technological features, and functional attributes of the bone artifacts recently obtained from the Sabatinovka culture site of Rozanivka (BrD; Ukraine, reg. Mykolaiv, dist. Noviy Boog). The assemblage contains notc...

Pankovskiy V.B. THE PEG TOP OF LOLA AND BABINE The paper gives an overview of the functional analysis of the certain category within bone industry of the Dnieper-Don Babine culture and the Lola culture. The analyses of raw material structure, technology, and complexes of artifacts are based on ethnographic data together with experimental study. The...

V. Pankovskiy Bone Carver of Lukivka and His Creation The author discusses raw material properties alongside technological and functional attributes in bone industry from the LBA site at Lukivka (Cherkasy region, Ukraine). These finds are attributed to some workshop dealing with cattle metacarpi and metatarsi, which have been used in arrowheads p...

PANKOVSKIY Valentin, FILATOV Dmitriy New Data on Bone Industry from Rozanivka settlement Artifacts in question occur from stratum and from building debris investigated during 2010 and 2011. The authors discuss raw material properties alongside some technological and functional attributes in the context of palaeometallic bone industry, with special...

Pankovskiy V.B. Bone, antler, and horn industries of the Late Bronze Age in the North Pontic area. – Manuscript. PhD thesis in historical science, speciality 07.00.04 – Archaeology. – The Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. – Kyiv, 2012. The systematization and explanation of the industries in the Sabatynivka an...

Lysenko S.D., Kushtan D.P., Pankovskiy V.B., Fedko V.F. MIDDLE AND LATE BRONZE AGE SITES NEAR BESPALCHE ON SUPOI RIVER Six archaeological sites containing different cultural components were discovered in 2009 at the outskirts of Bespalche (Cherkasy region, Drabiv district). Pottery of the Babyne type and the Malopolovetske type of the Middle and La...

Valentin Pankovskiy, Dmitriy Filatov Bone Industry from Rozanivka settlement Artifacts in question occur from stratum and from building debris. The authors discuss raw material properties alongside some technological and functional attributes in the context of palaeometallic bone industry, with special emphasis on Ingul region. Skates, arrowheads...

V. Pankovskiy TUNE OR SIGNAL? (An attempt to explain functions of some ancient sound instruments) The Late Bronze Age sites provide perforated tubules of the sheep/goat radii and tibiae. These finds occur in the North Pontic area, Volga and Ural region, Kazakhstan and Central Asia. They are considered to be birdcalls (T. Wieczorowski, S. Ters'kiy)...

The antler belt hooks have been singled out from the obsolete class of the Late Bronze Age hook-shaped cheekpiece