Abstract:
The article is published burial of Timber-Grave (Zrubna) culture, which was investigated in the mound near the village Shypylivka of Lugansk region, located on the right bank of the middle reaches of the Seversky Donets river. In the burial found a rare artifact – bone disk with the Carpathian-Mycenaean carved decoration. Mound’s stratigraphy and ritual characteristics can be attributed this burial to II (Middle) chronological horizon of Timber-Grave culture. This conclusion is confirmed by materials of settlements of Timber-Grave culture in Seversky Donets basin, where similar bone artifacts with Carpathian-
Mycenaean ornaments were found. Much closer analogies Shypylivka’s disk may be known in Vatin-Vrsac culture and Fuzesabony culture in the Carpathian-Danube, as well as in Shaft Graves and Tholos Tombs of the Peloponnese. These analogies allow to synchronize Shypylivka disk with LH IIA period and the corresponding horizons of Early/Middle Bronze Age of the Carpathian-Danube.
