Svitlana Ivanova

Institute of archaeology of National Academy of Science Kyiv, Ukraine

The landscape of Yamna (Yamnaya) studies has undergone a change lately. Nobody would be able to deny the fact of Yamna migration in the Balkans and Car-pathian Basin. However, the drivers of this major population movement (or rather movements) need to be clarified. The interpretation is usually built from the possible crucial advantages that the Ya...

The landscape of Yamna (Yamnaya) studies has undergone a change lately. Nobody would be able to deny the fact of Yamna migration in the Balkans and Car-pathian Basin. However, the drivers of this major population movement (or rather movements) need to be clarified. The interpretation is usually built from the possible crucial advantages that the Ya...

The appearance of steppe genetic ancestry in the 3rd millennium BC in Europe coincided with the beginning of a new cultural and economic era dominated by pastoralist economy and progressively more centralized social institutions. These genetic and socio-cultural elements were brought to Europe by the descendants of the Eneolithic inhabitants of the...

Usatove was an important southeast European culture, part of Gimbutas’ kurgan cultures, that connected the world of farmers of Old Europe with the rising influence of steppe nomads at the Eneolithic–Bronze Age transition. While the Usatove culture is currently placed within the late Eneolithic–Early Bronze Age chronological period, emerging evidenc...

The appearance of steppe genetic ancestry in Europe in the 3 rd millennium BCE coincided with the beginning of a new cultural and economic era dominated by pastoralist economy and progressively more centralized social institutions. These genetic and socio-cultural elements were brought to Europe by the descendants of Eneolithic inhabitants of the P...

The study of the Early Metal Age cultures of Europe has greatly improved during the last decades. New studies have been centered not only on aspects of the material culture and burial rites, but also on the chronology of the different complexes, their spread, eventually genetic evidence, and cultural transmission. Moreover, the study of the steppe...

The monograph is devoted to the reconstruction of cultural and historical processes in North-Western Black Sea at the end of IV–III millennium BC. The integration process in the Late Chalcolithic Age led to the formation in the region Budzhak culture of Pit Grave cultural and historical community, based on local protobudzhak horizon. Analyzed inter...

It is noted that some researchers have associated the migration of ancestors of Indo-Europeans to Europe with the Yamna cultural and historical community. It is established that based on a comparison of genomic markers from the remains of the Volga-Ural group of Yamna culture and representatives of European populations from the Mesolithic to the Br...

Vitalij V. Otroschenko made a great contribution to the study of Copper and Bronze Age cultures in Ukraine. His researches of absolute and relative chronology, cultural changes and cultural coexistence have particular interest in the context of this article. They allow a reader to focus more reasonably on cultural and historical processes of North-...

The article treats the archaeological record of North-Western Pontic region in search of traces of 8200 calBP event. The two different approaches are applied: summation of 14C dates and a site-oriented approach. In the framework of the latter we refer to materials of Melnychna Krucha site, which contains a sequence covering 7500-1200 y. BCE. Twelve...

Analysis of early dates and stratigraphy of burial mound complexes (the second half of the V millennium BC) led to the conclusion, that they are not directly related to the burial embankment, but relate to complex monumental structures — sanctuaries. The sanctuaries preceded the burial mounds in chronological aspect, and they functioned for a long...

The collection of scientific works is devoted to modern research on the interaction of the natural environment and the prehistoric population of Eastern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the study of the impact of abrupt climate change in the early Holocene on the material culture and economy of the Neolithic and sub-Neolithic communities. Th...

Metal processing in the northwestern Black Sea region in the early bronze age. The article discussing data related to metalworking in the northwestern Black Sea region between 3400–2000 BC, during the Early Bronze Age. This region is a geographical area located between the Danube, Prut and Southern Bug rivers, in the northwestern part of the Black...

The purpose of the article is to consider the possibility of Timber-grave (Zrubna) culture influencing on the western area of Sabatynivka culture on the one hand and the likelihood of connections of the population of the Sabatynivka culture of the Northwest Black Sea in the eastern direction on the other. The methods of research are comparative hi...

В статье охарактеризована методика классификации керамики Буджацкой культуры Северо-Западного Причерноморья. Системный подход позволяет объективно подойти к разработке классификационных схем различных типов посуды. В работе применяется следующая иерархическая схема систематизации керамики: отдел – категория – тип – вариант. Представлены графически...

The feature of historical and cultural development of the North-Western Pontic region at the end of the 4th—3rd millennium BC are the relations of its population with the bearers of foreign cultures. First of all it concerns the Budzhak culture which is the part of the Yamna cultural and historical area. The integration process in the Late Chalcoli...

The study on archaeological sites has some peculiarities when undertaken inside the territories of modern cities. And the reason behind it is not only the usual situation when parts of a site are covered by present-day constructions or cut by communication trenches. Sometimes a stratigraphic position and/or a level of recovery for ancient artefacts...

Метою статті є розгляд хронології та можливих контактів культур ранньої та середньої доби бронзи Північно-Західного Причорномор’я (ямна, катакомбна, бабинська), які проявилися в археологічних матеріалах. Методи дослідження ґрунтуються на діалектичному підході до аналізу і синтезу у вивченні давніх спільнот, з урахуванням нерівномірності історичного...

Early Bronze Age of the North-Western Black Sea Region is represented by the Usatovo and Budzhak/Yamna cultures. Advancement of the steppe population to the west is traditionally associated with Yamna culture. The barrows with Yamna graves are known in the Balkan-Carpathian area. The connections of the steppe population with the West Asia turned ou...

This article is dedicated to the problem of the origin and spread of the Yamna cultural-historical community (YCHC) in the context of the hypothesis recently expressed by geneticists about the massive migration of population groups genetically related to YCHC and carrying the genetic determinants of the Iranian Neo- lithic agrarians and hunters and...

In the V-IV millennium BC the tradition of erecting burial mounds (kurgans) began to spread in various parts of Europe. A wide distribution of this tradition is associated with the tribes of the Yamnaya culture complex (YCC) in the early Bronze Age. An analysis of the main components of the YCC shows that the carriers of the YCC were primarily unit...

Scythians were nomadic and semi-nomadic people that ruled the Eurasian steppe during much of the first millennium BCE. While having been extensively studied by archaeology, very little is known about their genetic identity. To fill this gap, we analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Scythians of the North Pontic Region (NPR) and successful...

Prehistoric Europe experienced a marked cultural and economic shift around 4000 years ago, when the established Neolithic agriculture-based economy was replaced by herding-pastoralist industry. In recent years new data about the genetic structure of human communities living during this transition period began to emerge. At the same time, the geneti...

The paper presents the results of excavations and analytical studies regarding the taxonomic classification of a unique funeral site associated with the societies of early ‘barrow cultures’ of the north-western Black Sea Coast in the 4th-3rd millennium BC. The study discusses the ceremonial centres of the Tripolye culture-Gordineşti group, as well...

The paper discusses the taxonomy and autogenesis of the cycle of early ‘barrow cultures’ developed by the local communities of the Middle Dniester Area or, in a broader comparative context, the north-western Black Sea Coast, in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC. The purpose of the study is to conduct an analytical and conceptual entry point to the rese...

The paper presents a historiographic context helpful in the current investigations of the cultural contacts between the societies of the east and west of Europe in the borderland of Podolia and Moldova in the Late Eneolithic and the prologue of the Bronze Age. The focus is on the state of research (chiefly taxonomic and topogenetic) into the sequen...

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 five 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 stud...