Brovender Y. Donetsk mining-metallurgical center of the Bronze Age.

Source list a the dissertation accounts 294 settlements and 9238 burials examined in the area of Dnepr-Don interfluve as well as production activity memorials located within five ore indications of Bakhmut hollow in Donetskiy mountain-ridge. The author has developed a genesis concept for Donetsk mining-metallurgical center of the Bronze Age as a result of metal production evolution during the Eneolithic-Bronze Age in Eastern-European steppe and forest-steppe. Donetsk mining-metallurgical center being a well-organized production structure of the Late Bronze Age specializing on the large-scale production is examined within the Berezhnovsko-mayevskaya primary culture. It was proved that copper-ore area of Donetskiy mountain-ridge was like generating basis of cultural genesis of Berezhnovsko-mayevskaya primary culture. There were determined specific features of functioning of the Donetsk mining-metallurgical center as well as the breakdown reasons.