Pages: 140-156

The article is devoted to a problem of creation of middle Hallstatt (VIII-VII B.C.) culture Basarabi-Sholdaneshti in Dniestr-Prut rivers basins. The author consider two coexisted lines of cultural development of these antiquities: the ornamented (on the Saharna basis and classical Basarabi foundation) and the fluted (on the Babadag III basis). The article also contains the declaration on Illyrians presence in Early Iron Age in Northern Pontice region.