"Skarbnytsia": Kurgan stelae

Sumy Television. The March 14, 2010 issue of the "Skarbnytsia" program is dedicated to the monumental stone sculptures of ancient nomadic peoples — stone women.

In the video: archival photographs, maps, landscapes of Sumy region; stone women from the Sumy Museum of Local Lore.

Author — Olena Rashevska.

Reference: Stone women are anthropomorphic stone sculptures of cult purpose that arose in the Eneolithic and Bronze Age (IV-II millennium BC) and further developed in the Scythian and Polovtsian periods. They served as markers of burial complexes and reflected ideas about the afterlife, social status or ritual function of the deceased. In Sumy region, isolated finds of stone steles and fragments are mainly associated with the movement of monuments from more southern areas.