Ivanova S. The history of the population of North-West Black Sea at the end of IV-III millennium BC.

The dissertation is devoted to the reconstruction of cultural and historical processes in North-Western Black Sea at the end of IV-III millennium BC. The integration process in the Late Chalcolithic Age led to the formation in the region Budzhak culture of Pit Grave cultural and historical community, based on local protobudzhak horizon. Analyzed intercommunication population Northwestern Black Sea with other cultures. There has been no invasion "Kurgan culture" of the steppe areas in the west, but trading colonization, based on was an exchange of natural resources - metals Balkan-Carpathian area and salt from estuaries Northwestern Black Sea. The archaeological situation with the climatic fluctuations allowed the author to create a new model of correct cultural and historical processes that took place in South-Eastern Europe in IV-III millennium BC, to evaluate and migration (both trade colonization of new territories), and adaptive capabilities of the ancient population of the North-Western Black Sea, to characterize the leading role of natural resources and trade in cultural and historical processes.