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the basis of plaiting. It gave new material for
clothing and household needs;
6) men began to lead settled way of life, built
permanent dwellings;
7) family became the household centre, tribal
formation was coming to the end with all
characteristic features (territory, language).
On the territory of Ukraine during that period
tribes appeared according to the character of
their culture and agriculture activity can be
relatively divided into two zones: southwest
(agriculture and cattle husbandry) and
northeast (hunting and fishing).
8) there are 500 Neolithic settlements known
in Ukraine. The most known of them are: near
Soroky town on the Dniester river, Pechery
village, Skybytsi, Sokilnyki on the banks of
the South Buh.
4-3 thous. B.C. Chalcolithic period:
1) it is the transitional period from the Stone
Age to the Brazen Age. The man learnt to use
items made of copper, first by smithery of
virgin copper, then by smelting it from the
ore. But copper being a soft metal and large
copper deposits being absent, that metal failed
to supplant stone (flint), which stayed the
main material for making instruments of
labour;
2) the transition from the mattock forms to the
early forms of agriculture with application of
cattle as draft animals;
3) productivity of labour increased causing
the excess of agricultural products. That fact

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