Пам’ятки типу Бабине ІІІ: від культури до культурного кола

Abstract

In the article the evolution of sights of researchers on an estimation of cultural taxonomy of monuments of the Babine type is considered: from their perception as uniform archaeological culture, through culture with several local variants, up to modern estimations of this archaeological formation, as supercultural phenomenon. It is offered to consider all set of the monuments of Babine type within the framework of three-level system of taxonomy: a local variant – culture – a cultural circle. In structure of Babine cultural circle it is allocated two archaeological cultures: Dnepr-Don and Dnepr-Prut. First of them is represented homogeneous, and the second culture includes three local variants: Dnepr-Dnestr, Dnepr-Bug and the Dnestr-Prut.