Demchenko O. The natural environment and cultural adaptation of the population of the Dnieper Rapids Region during VIII–VI mill. BC.

The specific features of the method of interaction of the fishermen-hunters-collectors of the region with the natural environment in the period of late boreal-atlantiuk and the modeling of their cultural adaptation, based on a unique system of life support and covering economic activity, settled strategy and ritual-religious activity were determined. For the first time the theoretical and graphic models of the economic cycle of the population of the Dnieper Rapids Region VIIІ-VII millennium BC were developed. The dynamics of time development of certain components of the material and spiritual culture of Mesolithic and Early-Neolithic population of the Dnieper Rapids Region as a component of their adaptation to the natural environment of the region is determined. The information on the development of the spiritual culture of communities of ancient hunters-fishermen-collectors has been systematized, an ecological interpretation of their worldview has been made.