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Burials and sites that can be related to the identified “Protobudzhak” horizon were left by bearers of various cultural groups. Their individual contributions to Budzhak culture is not always obvious. DNA studies demonstrate that the population of the Pit Grave culture is not genetically homogeneous, showing a variety of maternal lines from the west and from the east. But mechanisms of transformation can be reconstructed only after specification and correction of information about such cultures that are chronologically and geographically comparable with the “proto-Budzhak horizon” of the North-Western Black Sea Region.

Keywords: North-Western Black Sea region, Late Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, proto-Budzhak horizon, late Tripolye culture, Lower Mikhaylovka culture.

Information about author:

Svetlana Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Archaeology Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Geroev Stalingrada Pr., 12, Kiev, 04210, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]