Mikhajlovka

A settlement of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, located in the lower Dnieper Valley near Nikopol, Ukraine. Three main occupation horizons have been distinguished, the first a Cucuteni-Tripolye culture, the second of the Sredni Stog culture, and the last of the Catacomb Grave culture. Near the settlement was a flat cemetery of pit graves (Yamnaya burial rite).

[Mikhailovka, Mykhailivka]. settlement of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, located in the lower Dnieper Valley near Nikopol, Ukraine, USSR. Three main occupation horizons have been distinguished: I a Tripolye B2 settlement with shell-gritted, cord-impressed pottery of steppe origins; II a shorter-lived settlement of the Sredni Stog group with sand-gritted pointed-base pottery with comb decoration (Usatovo painted sherds date the layer to the 2nd millennium be); III a late phase of the Catacomb culture, with sand-gritted, pointed-base pottery and a wide range of copper tools and weapons. Near the settlement was a flat cemetery of pit graves (Yamnaya burial rite).