Grechko D. The ethno-cultural history of the Dnieper Left-bank Ukraine forest-steppe population during Scythian time.

This dissertation is the first complex study of the ethnocultural history of the Dnieper forest–steppe Left Bank of the Scythian period. During the first period (the middle of the 7th – first third of the 6th centuries BC) a stable agricultural population lived only in the Middle Vorskla river basin. During the second period (third quarter of the 6th – first third of the 5th centuries BC) the ethnocultural history of the tribes of Dnieper Left Bank Forest–Steppe was close to the situation described by Herodotus in the part on negotiations of steppe Scythians with kings of the Geloni, the Budini and the Melanchaeni. The third period is characterized by the existence of the Northern Black Sea Scythia on the periphery (the end of the first third of the 5th – the beginning of the last quarter of the 4th centuries BC). During the fourth period sedentarised population still lived on some sites after the final of Scythia (end of the 4th – first third of 3rd centuries BC).