STAGES OF LIFE AND SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF LVIV ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLODYMYR SAVYCH
Journal Title: Матеріали і дослідження з археології Прикарпаття і Волині - Year 2017, Vol 21, Issue
Abstract
The article includes overview of the main stages of biography and scientific career of Lviv archaeologist Volodymyr Savych. The latter was connected with two archaeological centers – the Lviv Historical Museum and the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of USSR. In the museum, V. Savych worked from 1952 to 1967. Here he qualified as a field researcher, working as a member of museum expeditions on the sites from different periods – from Bronze Age to Middle Ages. In the same time, V. Savych explored his first Paleolithic sites. Almost simultaneously scientific and personal contacts of the researcher with the Institute of Social Sciences are being developed. From 1954 to 1960 he studies at postgraduate school of the Institute. Then, lost lasting cooperation between V. Savych and his teacher, the well-known researcher of Paleolithic O. Chernysh, began. In 1967, the scientist moved to the Department of Archeology of the Institute and focused completely on the study of Paleolithic of South-Western Volhynia. Also, the publication briefly describes the history and main results of field research of the most significant sites excavated by V. Savych. They include multilayer ones from the territory of Rivne and Ternopil regions: Lypa I and VI, Kulychivka. The most important scientific works, published by the scholar, are presented. Opinion of V. Savych about cultural and chronological interpretation of the sites and interconnections of the population of South-Western Volhynia with the neighboring regions during the period from final stage of Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic are outlined. Decisive role in them of the concept of genetic development of the material culture of Upper Paleolithic of Volhynia from Mousterian of Dnister region is emphasized.
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Ruslan Koropetskyi, Oleksandr Sytnyk
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