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It has been a long discussed issue of how the Tripolye Culture might have been contributing to formation of the eastern and southeastern groups of the Funnel Beaker Culture. Now, it became clear that the formation of a stable Beaker oecumene throughout the Bug River basin was accompanied there by the Tripolye inclusions of the Brînzeni tradition. Western Volhynia, in its turn, is attested to be an expanse where the synthesis of both cultural phenomena was evidenced. The process is reckoned to be in closest association with extraction and use of the Volhynian flintstone. This has been distributed, along with the Beaker pottery style, not only across Western Volhynia yet further to the Middle Dniester and up to the northern Moldova. The Beaker communities by the Bug River once were thought to be those who performed a key role in transferring the Tripolye pottery style to the West. It is obvious, however, that the Tripolye Culture elements occurred there, in the most significant part, from the Tripolye and Beaker mutual habitat in Western Volhynia, with its centre located in Ostroh area. The same region seems to be responsible for the fact that the Beaker and the Beaker/Baden modes have been sufficiently mixed elsewhere with the Tripolye tradition.

Keywords: Poland, Western Ukraine, Moldova, Late Chalcolithic, Funnel Beaker Culture, Tripolye Culture, Volhynian flintstone

Information about author:

Małgorzata Rybicka (Rzeszów, Poland). Doctor habilitat. University of Rzeszów, Institute of Archaeology. Moniuszko St., 10, Rzeszów, 35-015, Poland.
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