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Dnieper-Donets culture, ca. 5th—4th millennium BC. A Neolithic ( Stone Age ) culture in the area north of the Black Sea / Sea Of Azov between the Dnieper and Donets River. It was a Hunter-gatherer culture that made the transition to early agriculture. Inhumation was in grave pits, with the deceased being covered in Ochre . Burial was sometimes individual, but larger groupings are more common, with burials being done sequentially in the same grave. There are parallels with the contemporaneous Samara Culture , and a larger horizon from the lower half of Dnieper to the mid-to-lower Volga has been drawn, particularly by the advocates of the Kurgan hypothesis as expounded by Marija Gimbutas . No evidence can be given for linguistic identity, but some effort has been expended to describe the physical remains recovered from graves as typically Europoid , seeking a genetic basis for assigning these people to the Indo-European stock, or at least, as a stock who underwent language replacement. Besides a western extension to the middle Dniester down to the mouth of the Danube , it occupied the western third of the area of the later Yamna Culture . SOURCES
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