Strotsen' B. The Cherniahiv culture of West Podillia.

Drawing a map of settlements and burial-grounds of Western Podillia showed that they become localized in two groups, which coincide with landscape regions - Ternopil region and Prydniestrovia region. Analysis of the new archaeological material found by the author and those known before gives an opportunity to retrace some general and distinctive traits between both groups of the sites. General traits include: settlements location, biritual, and the some types of the burial pits construction, identical collection of burial implements, common economic way of the population of the second quarter of the first millennium A.D. and etc. Distinctive traits are retraced in dwelling building, modeled ceramics, specific aspects of burial ritual and some traits of material culture. Prydniestrovia distinctions find their of the Hun's period and the Prague-Korchac culture and peculiarities of the Ternopil group have analogy with the Wielbark culture. So in the first millennium Western Podillia were settled by two ethnic groups: local - Slavic group and newly com - German group.