Kyiv: Myslene drevo. – 2006.
This book was first published in 2001 in Poland in a series of Baltic-Pontic studies, published by University of Poznan in English (Viktor I. Klochko Weaponry of societies of the Northern Pontic Culture Circle: 5000 – 700 BC, Poznań, 2001 (Baltic-Pontic Studies, vol. 1910, ISBN 83-86094-09-5; ISSN 1231-0344). Proposed now Ukrainian text is revised, expanded and updated with new materials and ideas.
The monograph deals with the results of long-time research of arms of ancient societies in Ukraine from the Neolithic – Bronze Age and the Cimmerian period. Paid attention to the typology of different weapons, and analyzed the chronological aspects of their development against the background of cultural and historical processes of the time. The problems of weapons of subjects, including technology of their making, nature of raw bases, the physical properties of the material. Studied indigenous and innovative influences on the emergence and evolution of new inventions. A characteristic properties of different types of combat and convergence of different weapons. In general, weaponry items considered as a historical source, that is important for reconstructive analysis of separate military and historical events and the entire cultural-historical and ethno-cultural models.
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Subject, purpose and scope of work 5
History Studies 5
Used Sources 7
The structure of work and its formal basis 7
Classification of weapons 8
Credits 11
Prehistory 12
Weapons of forest and steppe population of Right-Bank Ukraine 15
Funnel beaker culture 20
Weapons of steppe neo-eneolithic population 20
Essay of warfare of neolithic – eneolithic age 21
Usatove group 33
Sophiivka group 37
Late Trypillja of the Western Volyn 42
Globular amphora culture 42
Culture of Ukrainian steppes 42
Pit grave cultural and historical unity 61
Pit grave culture – East 62
Pit grave culture – West 67
Kemi-Oba culture 69
Catacomb cultural and historical unity 70
Arms of Donetsk culture 70
Armament of Ingul culture 76
Corded ware culture 81
Subcarpathian, Gorodok-Zdovbytsa, Stzhyzhov, corded ware cultures and Pochapska group of sites 81
Middle Dnieper culture 87
Military societies of late eneolithic – early bronze age 124
Cultural processes in Ukraine during the period of late eneolithic – early bronze age 128
Arming of middle bronze age 131
Tshinetsk Komariv group 132
Multiraised border pottery culture 136
Pokrovska zrubna culture 147
Military of middle bronze age 151
Cultural processes in Ukraine during the middle bronze age 156
Sabatynivka phase 1600-1200 years BC 175
Sabatynivka and Noah culture (Sabatynivk weapons group). 175
Late east Trzinec – early Bilogrudivka group 188
Berezhnivka-Mayivka culture (Loboikivka arms group) 192
Belozerka stage, 1200-900 years BC 198
"Western" group 198
Central Ukrainian group 204
East Group 212
Cultural processes in Ukraine in the late bronze age 245
Military of late bronze age 255
Armament of Cimmerian period 264
Chornohorivka armament 264
Novocherkassk armament 276
Arms of "Dniester" group 280
Historical processes in Cimmerian period 280
Military in Cimmerian period 289
Acronyms and abbreviations 337
