Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2014, Nr 12, pages 12–17 The Amber Finds at Kyiv’s Podil District in 2008 Khamajko N. V., Koltovoy N. A., Zhurukhina E. Y. Summary:
The article describes the amber finds excavated at Kyiv’s Podil District (Spaska str., 35) in 2008. The research revealed numerical informative material related to the life and production activities of the trade and craft center of Kiev in the ancient Rus times. For example, the excavation of the site discovered a number of archaeological finds associated with the jewelry manufacturing (using copper alloys and gold). The findings of amber and its items: beads, finger-rings, finger-ring insets, crosses, as well as half-finished and crude amber are of great interest as the evidences of production deals with the amber processing in the discovered yards. This production kept pace with main jewelry craft. There are many analogies of amber products at the Old Rus’ sites mostly of the 11th – 13th century North-West Rus’. Some of the finds (pieces of raw amber) were subjected to fluorescence analysis, which determined Baltic origin of earlier samples (the layer of the first third of the 11th century.). The characteristics of the remaining samples from the horizons of mid 12th – early 13th century are similar to Ukrainian amber. Keywords:
archeological amber, Kyiv’s Podil District, chronology, morphology, fluorescence analyses. Corresponding author address:
Kyiv Archaeological Centre; Skovoroda St. 9b, Kyiv, 04070 Ukraine; email: lenzhurukh@mail.ru
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