Bug Dniester culture

Prehistoric cultures of Russia
Mesolithic
Kunda culture	7400-6000 BC Chr.
Neolithic
Bug Dniester culture	6500-5000 BC Chr.
Dnepr-Don culture	5000-4000 BC Chr.
Sredny Stog culture	4500-3500 BC Chr.
Ekaterininka culture	4300-3700 BC Chr.
Fatyanovo culture	around 2500 BC Chr.
Copper Age
North Caspian culture
Spa culture	5000-3000 BC Chr.
Samara culture	around 5000 BC Chr.
Chwalynsk culture	5000-4500 BC Chr.
Botai culture	3700-3100 BC Chr.
Yamnaya culture	3600-2300 BC Chr.
Afanassjewo culture	3500-2500 BC Chr.
Usatovo culture	3300-3200 BC Chr.
Glaskovo culture	3200-2400 BC Chr.
Bronze age
Poltavka culture	2700-2100 BC Chr.
Potapovka culture	2500-2000 BC Chr.
Catacomb tomb culture	2500-2000 BC Chr.
Abashevo culture	2500-1800 BC Chr.
Sintashta culture	2100-1800 BC Chr.
Okunew culture	around 2000 BC Chr.
Samus culture	around 2000 BC Chr.
Andronovo culture	2000-1200 BC Chr.
Susgun culture	around 1700 BC Chr.
Srubna culture	1600-1200 BC Chr.
Colchis culture	1700-600 BC Chr.
Begasy Dandybai culture	around 1300 BC Chr.
Karassuk culture	around 1200 BC Chr.
Ust-mil culture	around 1200–500 BC Chr.
Koban culture	1200-400 BC Chr.
Irmen culture	1200-400 BC Chr.
Late corporate culture	around 1000 BC Chr.
Plate burial culture	around 1300–300 BC Chr.
Aldy Bel culture	900-700 BC Chr.
Iron age
Baitowo culture
Tagar culture	900-300 BC Chr.
Nosilowo group	900-600 BC Chr.
Ananino culture	800-300 BC Chr.
Tasmola culture	700-300 BC Chr.
Gorokhovo culture	600-200 BC Chr.
Sagly bashi culture	500-300 BC Chr.
Jessik Beschsatyr culture	500-300 BC Chr.
Pazyryk level	500-300 BC Chr.
Sargat culture	500 BC Chr. – 400 AD
Kulaika culture	400 BC Chr. – 400 AD
Tes level	300 BC Chr. – 100 AD
Shurmak culture	200 BC Chr. – 200 AD
Tashtyk culture	100–600 AD
Chernyakhov culture	AD 200–500

The Bug-Dniester culture (approx. 6500-5000 BC) is an archaeological culture of the Neolithic in the areas of today's Moldova and Ukraine on the rivers Dniester and the southern Bug .

This culture followed the local Mesolithic tradition and developed the following phases in its 1500-year course.

The early phase, although still a hunter-gatherer culture, is referred to as the Pre-Ceramic Neolithic in Russian-Ukrainian terminology . The people made their living by hunting aurochs, red deer and wild boar and fishing for roach , eels and pike. So far there has been no evidence of agriculture.

According to Anthony (2007), from around 6200 BC The first ceramics known. Mainly these are flat or pointed-bottomed pitchers that have been decorated with wavy lines. D. Gaskevych (2014) gives more recent radiocarbon dates for ceramics between approx. 6356 to 4585 (68.2%) cal.v. Chr.

From around 5800 BC. Influences of the Starčevo culture lead to considerable changes. This was evident both in the ceramic style and in the change from wild grass to einkorn, emmer and spelled.

Around 5500 BC The style of ceramics changes to that of linear band ceramics (LBK). The LBK people probably came to this region from the Upper Dniester and presumably advanced to the lower Danube . Pit houses were replaced by long houses.

Around 5270 BC In the 4th century BC the line ceramics in Austria developed a new style of decoration, the so-called note head ceramics . Broken, incised lines replaced the ribbon ornamentation of the early linear ceramics, angular meanders were applied circumferentially in zigzag motifs. In the interruptions of the incised lines there are engraved points, the noteheads. In the edge area there are also pierced points in one or more rows. This style spread quickly via Slovakia to Poland on the western Bug and from there along the Dniester and Prut rivers to Ukraine and Romania.

Later the Bug-Dniester culture merged with the Cucuteni-Tripolje culture .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The dates in the table are taken from the individual articles and do not always have to be reliable. Cultures in areas of other former Soviet republics were included.
2. ^ David Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel and Language (2007)
3. ↑ Dmytro Gaskevych: Radiocarbon dating of pottery as solution of the problem-of chronology of the Bug-Dniester Neolithic culture . Radiocarbon 2014.