Storozhova Mohyla. A Pit-Grave culture kurhan of the late 3rd millennium BC near Stari Kodaky, Dnipro raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Excavations in 1949 by Aleksei Terenozhkin uncovered three corpses covered with red paint and buried in a crouched position. One of the graves also contained the first two-wheeled cart unearthed in Ukraine.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]


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