For some 4,000 years, people living on the Dnipro River avoided mixing with other groups, including those that practiced the new technology of farming.
NewsletterA population group inside modern-day Ukraine avoided outside influence for about 4,000 years during the latter days of the Stone Age and delayed the transition from hunting and gathering to farming,Researchers from Uppsala University and elsewhere drew on genetic material of 56 people who lived at different times during the Stone Age, in central and eastern Europe. Experts were particularly interested in the introduction of farming to Europe, which occurred about 8,500 years ago.
Genetic analysis by the researchers found “a strong genetic continuity” in the Dnipro region lasting some 4,000 years, while the Romanian and Polish data showed great turnover as new people settled in those areas. As a result, the Dnipro people who lived earlier in the Stone Age had much in common with those who lived as late as 4,000 years ago.
The northern part of the Pontic steppe extends its grasslands into southern Ukraine, where the lower Dnipro River is located. A large band of forest steppe also crosses into Ukraine. The paper says that hunter-gatherer communities lived on in these landscapes well into the neolithic period and sustained themselves on fish and other resources from waterways.Ukraine wasn’t the only region where this happened.
The Dnipro area eventually learned the ways of pottery, animal husbandry and farming, as well as modern burials., people living on the Pontic steppe first borrowed pottery from the Rakushechny Yar culture in modern-day Russia. However the area learned farming, it happened in some way other than a large-scale, outside migration that both brought the technology and mixed with the local population.
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