Pages: 397-413

The article is a study of characteristics of cattle breeding and hunting of the Cherniakhov settlement Sokol and the early Slavic Luka Kavetchynska settlement, which are situated in the Middle Dniester basin. It points to a possibility that the tribes in this region bred different races of cattle, and also that hunting was of a weak importance because of well-developed cattle breeding, which could entirely satisfy the needs of the inhabitants.