New neolithic sites from Khorol river basin

Gaskevych D.

The article has devoted to the results of investigations, carried out by Volynska Mezolitic Expedition in 1990 in the Poltava region. Neolitic-age ceramics and flint elements from 5 sites (which are situated near the mouth of the Khorol river) are described in details. Some of them were attributed to the Dnipro-Donets culture (DDC). The rest of material belongs to the culture of the pit-comb pottery. Early Dnipro-Donets sites appeared in the Khorol river basin at the second half of the 5th millennium BC (Dubove site). All materials of the sites Turbay, Kovali and parts of collections from the sites Lysychy Gorb, Fedorivka 2 belongs to the second periods of DDC (the end of the 5th – the first half of the 4th millennium BC). The innovations on this stage are elucidated the links of the native population with the bearers of the Bugo-Dnister, Trypolian, Mid-Don cultures and cultures of the Mariupol cultural-historical region. The population of pit-соmb pottery Neolithic culture in the forest regions was substituted with peoples of DDC in the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Archeological material of this time is the most part of finds from sites Lysychy Gorb and Fedorivka 2.