The paper presents excavation results and analytical studies concerning the taxonomic classification of a funerary site identified with the communities of the early 'barrow cultures' settling the north-western Black Sea Coast in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC . The study focuses on the ceremonial centres of the Eneolithic, Yamnaya, Catacomb and Babyno cultures . Key words: 'barrow cultures', Eneolithic, Early Bronze age, late Bronze age, middle dniester areaThe investigations of barrow 1, Pidlisivka, Yampil region, Vinnitsa Oblast, were carried out in 2010 as part of the Polish-Ukrainian research project to investigate the north-western frontier of settlement by 'Early Bronze' culture communi-

The paper presents the results of excavations and analytical studies regarding the taxonomic classification of a funeral site associated with the societies of ‘barrow cultures’ of the north-western Black Sea Coast in the first half of the 3rd and the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. The study discusses the ceremonial centres of the Eneolithic, Yamnaya and Noua cultures.

The paper presents excavation results and analytical studies concerning the taxonomic classification of a funerary site identified with the communities of the ‘barrow cultures’ settling the north-western Black Sea Coast in the first half of the 3rd and the middle of the 2nd millennia BC. The study focuses on the ceremonial centres of the Eneolithic communities of the Babyno and Noua cultures.