RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGY - MALE AND FEMALE DRESS OF THE ZARUBINTSY CULTURE OF THE PRYPYAT POLESIE (BASED ON BURIAL MATERIALS WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS)

Ivan F. Obraztsov

Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia

Keywords: Zarubintsy culture, Prypyat Polesie, brooch, dress, dress model

The article analyzes Zarubintsy culture cremations in the Prypyat Polesie region (Velemichi-II and Otverzhichi grave fields), which have been studied by physical anthropologists, in order to determine the relation of dress accessories within grave furniture (brooches, pins, belt fittings) to the sex of the interred. The study established the dominance of single iron brooch dress model in male burials and the exclusiveness of double bronze brooch (often of the so-called Zarubintsy-type) dress model – often accompanied by additional iron brooch and/or pin – to female burials. Based on a comparison of Polesian Zarubintsy cremations with Northern Black Sea region inhumations containing La Tène style brooches, as well as with materials of the “latenised” cultures – principally, with Pre-Roman textile finds in Jutland peat bogs – the author makes some assumptions on possible Zarubintsy culture costume traits.

DOI: 10.7868/S3034577426010061