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origin but performed in small groups;
7) tribal matriarchal communities became the
main groups of people;
8) the details of burial testify to the fact that
they worshipped hosts of heaven, the sun first
of all;
9) there have been about 400 sites recorded.
The most well-known of them are: Fat’ma-
Koba, Bilolissya, and Hrebenyky.
6-4 thous. B.C. The Late Stone Age:
1) it is the crucial stage in the history of the
mankind – the gradual transition from
appropriation husbandry (gathering, hunting,
fishing) to the reproduction type (agriculture
and cattle husbandry). It was the main content
of the so-called “Neolithic revolution”. The
man learnt to grow grain crops: oats, rye,
millet, vetch, barley, wheat though the yield
of that primitive agriculture was very scarce.
Hunting gave life to cattle husbandry, the man
learnt to breed domestic animals: pigs, bulls
(the horse was domesticated much later);
2) the land was cultivated by mattocks made
of bone, horn or stone, sickles and stone grain
graters appeared;
3) the technique of stone working became
more sophisticated: cutting, grinding and
rilling came into usage;
4) pottery appeared: they began to make
ceramics and brown ware burnt in fire. The
ceramics became the main sign of different
archaeological cultures;
5) spinning and weaving came into being on

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