Ebook: Neolithization in Ukraine

Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. — 300 pp. — (British Archaeological Reports British Series, Book 1109). — ISBN 978-184171-326-7.This study of the Neolithic period in the Ukraine has been translated from Russian into English and includes chapters on Neolithic settlement, chronology and periodisation, agriculture, animal husbandry and the food-producing economy in general. Although the English is far from perfect, this report does bring a lot of information to an English-speaking audience who would otherwise be unable to tackle the source material which, judging by the bibliography, is published entirely in Russian.

Introduction.
Historiographical essay.
Basic concepts of the cultural - chronological development of Ukrainian Neolithic.
Neolithization in Ukraine: basic concepts.
The main stratified Neolithic settlements of Ukraine.
The Azov Sea area.
The Steppe Dnieper region.
The Forrest-Steppe Dnieper region.
The Desna region.
The South-East Ukrainian Woodlands.
The Southern Bug region.
Chronology and periodization of the Neolithic cultures.
The Bugo-Dniestrovskaya culture.
The Mariupolskaya cultural - historical area.
The Surskaya culture.
The Linear Pottery Culture.
The Dniepro-Donetskaya cultural - historical area.
The Pit-Comb Ware Culture.
Synchronization of the Neolithic cultures.
Neolithic agriculture of Ukraine.
Natural-climatic conditions of Ukraine in the Neolithic.
Agriculture evidence.
Species of cultivated plants and the time of their appearance in Ukraine.
Characteristic of the Neolithic agriculture.
Animal husbandry of the Neolithic population of Ukraine.
Animal husbandry evidence.
Time of appearance of domestic animals in Ukraine.
Problem of domestication and borrowing of the first domestic animals in Ukraine.
Contribution of animal husbandry in life-maintenance.
Variants of herd structure.
Varieties of the Neolithic animal husbandry.
Food-gathering branches of economy.
Hunting.
Fishing.
Food-gathering.
Neolithization in Ukraine.
Early Neolithic of the Balkan-Carpathian Region.
Early Neolithic of the South of European part of Russia.
Neolithization in Ukraine.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Kotova N.S., Kovalyukh N.N. The catalogue of the radiocarbon dates of Neolitic monuments of Ukraine.
Kotova N.S., Pashkevich G.A. The catalogue of imprints of the cultural plants on the ceramics of the Neolithic cultures of Ukraine.
Zhuravlyev O.P., Kotova N.S. The catalogue of the fauna materials of Neolithic sites of Ukraine.