Ivanova, SvetlanaToschev, Gennadiy2016-11-022016-11-022015-09Baltic-Pontic-Studies, 2015, vol. 20, pp.7-39.1231-0344http://hdl.handle.net/10593/15228The paper presents a historiographic context helpful in the current investigations of the cultural contacts between the societies of the east and west of Europe in the borderland of Podolia and moldova in the late Eneolithic and the prologue of the Bronze age . The focus is on the state of research (chiefly taxonomic and topogenetic) into the sequence of taxa in the age of early ‘barrow-building’, identified in the funerary rituals of societies settling the forest-steppe of the north- western Black Sea Coast in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC .enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesslate Eneolithicforest-steppe of north-western Black Sea CoastGordinešti typeZhvotilovka-Volchansk typeYamnaya cultureBudzhak cultureCatacomb cultureEdineţ cultureBabyno cultureNoua culturePostprint