Bobrovs'ka O. Beads and pendants of the dress Cherniachov culture population.

The thesis is dedicated to complex investigation of such a category of the Cherniachov antiquities as beads and pendants. The sources were about 10 000 decorations, as well as the data of 2 283 graves. The beads and pendants were systematized: the finds catalogued, a classification and division into periods were worked out. The list of chronological indicators were considerable expanded by some types of decorations. Their stable combinations were defined. Author's reconstructions of dress models of the different sexual, social, ethnical groups of the Cherniachov culture were proposed. Beads and pendant function in dress structure were determined. In particular, decoration types might serve the auxiliary indicators of sex, social status and ethnical origin of dead.