Chronology of the Voronezh culture (materials from the burial sites)

The paper describes relative and radiocarbon chronologies of the Voronezh culture using the data of burial sites. The analysis demonstrates that the Voronezh pots were found in the burials of the Middle Don Catacomb culture and in subsequent assemblages of the Dnieper-Don and the Volga-Don Babino cultures. It enables the author to establish that the earlier period of the Voronezh culture overlapped with the developed stage of the Middle Don Catacomb culture and was fully contemporary with the late stage of this culture while the later period of the Voronezh culture was contemporary with the first and the second periods of the post-Catacomb block (cultural circles of the Babino and Lola cultures). Radiocarbon calibrated dates put the period of the Voronezh artifacts within the 25th-20th centuries BC.