This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods.
The chapters in this volume provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine.
It is anticipated that this book will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text that is written by researchers who are active in their respective fields and who possess an intimate knowledge of Ukrainian prehistory.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction: Malcolm C. Lillie and Inna D. Potekhina
• 1. Studying the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Ukraine: main trends, discussions and results: Vadim Stepanchuk
• 2. The Upper Palaeolithic: Leonid Zaliznyak
• 3. Landscape change, human–landscape interactions and societal developments in the Mesolithic period: Leonid Zalyznyak
• 4. The Neolithic period in Ukraine: Mykola Tovkailo
• 5. The prehistoric populations of Ukraine: population dynamics and group composition: Inna D. Potekhina
• 6. Radiocarbon dating of sites in the Dnieper Region and western Ukraine: Malcolm C. Lillie, Chelsea Budd and Inna D. Potekhina
• 7. Palaeopathology of the prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Malcolm C. Lillie
• 8. The prehistoric populations of Ukraine: stable Isotope studies of fisher-hunter-forager and pastoralist-incipient farmer dietary pathways: Chelsea Budd and Malcolm C. Lillie
• 9. The adoption of agriculture: archaeobotanical studies and the earliest evidence for domesticated plants: Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute
• 10. The genetic landscape of Ukraine from the Early Holocene to the early metal ages: Alexey G. Nikitin