Abstract:
The article presents the present state of research on the general issue
of the dniester region of cultural contacts between communities
settling the Baltic and Pontic drainage basins. Some ive domains of
research shall be brought to discussion in which it is possible to see
fresh opportunities for archaeological study, on the basis of "Yampil
studies" on dniester-Podolia (forest-steppe) barrow-culture ceremonial
centres from the latter half of the 4th millennium and irst half of
the 3rd millennium BC. This relates to the peoples of the Eneolithic
and the Early Bronze age. in terms of topogenesis, embracing the Pontic-Tripolye, Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, as well as Globular
amphora and Corded ware in central prehistoric Europe.
