ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the information that conies from a peripheral territory of the great Pre-Sesklo-Karanovo I-Kremikovcy-Starevo-Krs-Cri cultural complex, the early Neolithic populations already possessed the main cultivated plants, namely wheat, barley, pulses and a few species of fruit trees. This observation confirms the hypothesis that the neolithisation of the region was a result of colonization. The chapter describes the so-called Bug-Dniester culture is the result of the influences exerted by the Starevo-Cri populations. The existence of an autochthonous Neolithic that evolved from of a Mesolithic culture in the Bug-Dniester interfluve seems improbable, but it is possible that new research supported by radiocarbon data clarifies this issue. The chapter addresses the complex issue of whether or not there was cultivation of trees and shrubs during the Chalcolithic in the Carpathian-Dniester region. The cultivation of some trees and shrubs indicates a high degree of sedentism for the Pre-Cucuteni and Cucuteni tribes.
