Роман Грибович – дослідник мезоліту заходу України

The article covers the stages of the biography and the main results of the scientific activity of Roman Hrybovych, a researcher of the Stone Age of Western Ukraine, and a representative of the Lviv Paleolithic School. Brief analysis of the scientist's recent publications, and his complete bibliography, including field reports are also presented. All his life, the scientist worked in the archeology department of the I. Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he worked his way up from a laboratory assistant to a research fellow. The scientist received his professional training under the guidance of his teacher, the outstanding researcher of Paleolithic Oleksandr Chernysh. As a participant of the expedition led by O. Chernysh, R. Hrybovych worked at Paleolithic sites of European significance – Korman IV, Molodovo I and V. Later, as an independent specialist, R. Hrybovych focused on the study of Mesolithic sites in the territory of Polissia and Sub-Carpathian region. From the beginning of the 1970^s, the Volhynian Mesolithic Expedition under his direction simultaneously carried out survey work on large areas of the Volhyn, Lviv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk regions and conducted excavations of the most perspective sites. Among recent are the multi-layered sites including Nobel I, Ataky VI, Krasnosillia I and II, Lanchyn, Popivtsi, Reklynets I, etc.

The result of the work was a significant replenishment of the source base of the settlement of Western Ukraine during the Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic, migrations and intercultural contacts of pre-historic communities, and the peculiarities of their economy. In addition to his research, the scientist participates in joint expeditions studying archeological sites of various ages in different micro-regions. A special place here belongs to the Ukrainian-Polish expedition organized within the framework of scientific cooperation between the Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Polish scientific and educational organizations. As part of it, R. Hrybovych researched barrows within the boundaries of the Upper Dnister region and settlements of the Roman Age in the Lviv region. Another area of R. Hrybovych’s activity was the museum work. The researcher was one of the initiators of the creation of the Archaeological Museum at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies and briefly held the position of director of the museum.