Research of a tumulus near the Bandyshovka village

The article is devoted to analysis of the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in one of the barrows (in all there were discovered ?ve tumuli) near the village of Bandyshovka, Vinnytsia region. The grave was robbed for several times, it was also partially destroyed as a result of extracting stones from its mound. Despite these interventions, it was possible to reconstruct the burial rite. Few ?nds indicate the development of intercultural relations between nomadic communities in the northern Black Sea region and forrest-steppe at the turn of the 9th - 8th centuries BC.