The early iron age horizon of the Dobrostany II site in the Vereshchytsia river basin

The multilayered site of Dobrostany II was investigated in 2004–2005 during the construction of the planned Krakovets–Lviv highway. It is located southeast of the village of Dobrostany, Yavoriv district, Lviv region, occupying the southern part of a cape overlooking the marshy floodplain of the Dobrostanka stream, a right tributary of the Vereshchytsia River. Geomorphologically, this area belongs to the southern slopes of the Yaniv Roztochchia, intersected by the Vereshchytsia River valley. At the Dobrostany II site, an area of over 600 sq. m was studied, and materials and objects of the Merzanovice culture, the Early Iron Age, and the Early Middle Ages were recorded. The Early Iron Age horizon proved to be the most intensive. Six objects located sporadically were discovered. Objects 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are small hearth pits. The most interesting is object 1 (a semi-dugout), which had a circular plan shape with a diameter of 3.7 m and a depth of 1.3 m. On the floor, there was a hearth, a cluster of ceramics, traces of perimeter walls, and postholes. The ceramic complex from the objects and the cultural layer, which consisted of pots, bowls, vases, and a large number of «discs» – baking molds – has analogies in the Cherepyn–Lahodiv group and the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian culture. The territory where the Dobrostany site is located was part of a contact zone between the Urnfield cultures and the cultures of the Circum-Pontic area. The buildings and materials of the Early Iron Age horizon of the Dobrostany II site were re-dated to the 7th–5th centuries BC. They belong to a local group with mixed cultural features. A comparative analysis of the materials from the Early Iron Age horizons of the Dobrostany I and Dobrostany II sites showed their technological and typological identity. This, as well as the peculiarities of the geomorphological conditions of their location, allows us to argue that Dobrostany I and Dobrostany II are the same sites

Drainage basin · Floodplain · Hearth · Horizon · Iron Age · Tributary · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts

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