Beside or by turn? The Buh-Dnister foragers and the Linear Band Pottery farmers on the Southern Buh River (Ukraine)

For a long time, finds of the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) on Southern Buh numbered only two bowls from Buh-Dnister site Bazkiv Ostriv. After recent discovery few more vessels and four stationary LBK settlements, some scholars have assumed Neolithic incomers regularly inhabited most region. However new direct AMS dates pottery shown existence indigenous hunter-gatherers here 5300 to 5000 BC. Therefore, today, cluster sites is verified area that was settled by early farmers near town Zavallia. The occurrence settlements at very this place explained fertile local soil desire inhabitants control huge deposit graphite, which centre an extensive exchange network for North-Pontic groups. This could given community significant social prestige through active production valuable goods.