Nemirov ancient settlement (the basin of the Southern Bug) in the early Iron Age: from the experience with old collections
The article throws light upon Early Scythian materials dealing with the excavations of Nemirov city-site (South Bug) in the 20th century. The artefacts and documents in question are kept now in the State Hermitage Museum and Scientific Archive of IHMC RAS. Though the individual finds from the old excavations at this outstanding monument have been well-known, the whole complex of artifacts and archive documents haven’t been properly examined. Through scanty field documentation the part of information has been lost irrevocably, but some gaps were successfully filled in. The article offers a brief survey of the investigation has been carried out: it gives the description of the main categories of archaeological objects and chronological indicators, as well as the complexes of dugouts, which we managed to reconstruct, characterizes the principal vectors in the contacts of Nemorov inhabitants with other cultural “worlds”, the new chronology of the existence of the site in the Early Iron Age.