Dnieper–Donets culture

The Dnepr -Don culture (ca. 5000-4000 BC) is an archaeological culture of the Neolithic between Dnepr and Don. It show parallels with the contemporaneous Samara culture. Followed is the Dnepr -Don culture of the Yamnaya culture. Their western distribution ranged from the middle Dniester to the Danube estuary, approximately the western third of the territory in which the later Yamnaya culture was widespread.

Economy

The Dnepr -Don culture was a hunter -gatherer culture, which has become an early operated a farming culture. The archaeological remains of the earliest phase refer almost exclusively to a hunting -fishing and farming.

Burials

Burials have been made in grave pits, in which the deceased were sprinkled with ocher. In addition to individual individual graves more graves with subsequently applied burials were common. The remains are described as typical of Caucasian anatomy.

Ceramics

The early use of typical spitzbodiger transport ceramics is similar to the behavior of other Mesolithic cultures in the periphery of Neolithic cultures. Such observations were also in the Swifterbant culture in the Netherlands, Ellerbek, the Ertebølle culture in Northern Germany and Scandinavia, the ceramic of the " ceramic Mesolithic " Belgium and northern France ( including non - linear ceramic like the one from La Hoguette, Bliquy be made Villeneuve -Saint -Germain ) and the Roucedour - culture in southwestern France and the river and lakes in northern Poland and Russia.