Mykhailivka settlement

Mykhailivka settlement. A multi-occupational settlement of the 3rd to 2nd millennium BC, near the present-day village of Mykhailivka, Kherson oblast. Excavations in 1952–5 and 1960–3 identified the existence of an earlier Copper Age settlement and a later occupation of the Pit-Grave culture.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]