Tripolye Culture during the Beginning of the Middle Period (BI)

Description

The flourishing of the Tripolye-Cucuteni culture, located on the North-Eastern border of the Balkan-Carpathian proto-civilization, was the main spreader of its influences to neighbouring regions, as imports of Tripolye pottery became frequent in Neolithic seats of the Dnepr-Donets culture in the Middle Dnieper area. At the same time, steppe nomads brought cultural traditions entirely different from those established in early agricultural societies. Ethno-cultural changes resulting from this phenomenon have lately been subject to animated discussions. However, studying these issues is impossible without a profound development of the Tripolye-Cucuteni chronological framework and an in-depth structural analysis. Solving this problem also allows one to remodel interrelation structures between ancient populations and ethno-genesis processes. The main aim of this work pre-determines the study of Tripolye-Cucuteni ceramic assemblages as functional sets of items united by common pottery-making traditions. Determining the main trends in assemblage development reveals real genetic correlations between settlements and their local groups.