Sarmatian burial monuments of the steppe Crimea

The article is devoted to the general characteristics of kurgan graves of the Sarmatian time that are located in the Steppe Crimea to define their cultural and chronological origins. Today we are aware of 19 such monuments. All of them are included in embankments of more ancient barrows. Almost all corpses are directed to the northern sector and only one corpse - to the southern one. The burial items that accompanied them are characterized by chronological frameworks of the 2nd century BC - 1st century AD. Thus, the formation time of 12 complexes refers to the period of AD boundary, and only three burials are dated by the next period. Four burial places cannot be dated exactly. The analogous inlet burials with North-oriented corpse are widespread in Pontic Steppes to the north from the Crimean peninsula. The objects that had been found in them are basically characteristic for the end of the 2nd century BC - first half of the 1st century AD...