The site of Sabatynivka I in the middle part of the Sothern Bug region is known for its collection, a partial analysis of which made it possible to attribute the site to the stage B1 of Cucuteni-Trypillia and to the Sabatynivka culture of the Late Bronze Age. The results of excavations in the 1938—1939 and 1947—1948 have not been fully published. The scientific archive ofthe OAM NASU contains sources that make it possible to reconstruct the excavated trenches (data on the stratigraphy and planigraphy of the site). Over the past years, Odesa I. I. Mechikov National University team has made his didactic research on the site. New finds made it possible to obtain data on the chronology of the settlement; paleopedological analysis was also carried out at the two sections. The obtained results allow us to consider in more detail the climatic conditions and the environment of the population of the paleometallic epoch of the settlement.

The paper treats the dating of the Sabatynivka group of Cucuteni-Trypillia. The authors compared the sets of radiocarbon dates, which were obtained for the sites of the aspect, analyzed the relative chronology of the Sabatynivka group, and checked their correspondence with the dating of the contemporaneous cultural aspects. This approach helped to establish the synchronism of the Sabatynivka group with the Skelia phase of Seredny Stog culture, Gumelniţa A2 and Cucuteni A3-A4. The sites of the group existed during 44-42 centuries BCE.

Summary In Kozavchyn on the Southern Bug, an Early Copper Age settlement surrounded by trenches was explored by means of field surveys and magnetic prospection. In addition to the enclosing trenches, the magnetogram revealed a palisade trench and remains of pits and burnt houses, which covered a contiguous area with archaeological findings of almost 4 ha situated on a spur with the field name “Kozachyi Yar”. The settlement belongs to the Trypillia BI local group Sabatynivka, as does the nearby site Kamyane, “Kamyane-Zavallia 1”, also surrounded by ditches, which was investigated a few years ago and dated to the last third of the 5th millennium BC. The Sabatynivka group is documented in a narrowly confined area on both sides of the Southern Bug River and may have once been a jointly acting political entity. Internal conflicts or external threats from the steppe area to the east are often considered as reasons for the enclosure of CTCC settlements. It seems conceivable, however, that the apparently once much more numerous enclosures had less of a protective than merely a delimiting character.

Структура эпонимного памятника для сабатиновской группы Триполье-Кукутени ранее не выступала предметом для отдельного исследования. В работе публикуются доступные на сегодня результаты раскопок на поселении Сабатиновка І в 1938-1939-х гг (под руководством А.В. Добровольского и Е.Ф. Лагодовской), которые хранятся в архиве Одесского археологического музея НАН Украины. Рассматриваются планиграфические данные поселения Сабатиновка І. Произведена попытка определения объектов на сетке квадратов и их культурной идентификации.

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