У статті розглянуто ритуальний та грабіжницький підходи щодо інтерпретації поруйнованих
поховань в ареалі черняхівської культури.
Ritual and thievish motives of destroying burials in the Cherniahiv culture area are discussed. Allusions
about grave robbing and other reasons for destroying tombs in Early Medieval historical and
ethnographical sources, concerned history of German tribes, are analyzed. To sum up, searching for profit
was just one of numerous reasons for destroying burials.
