title: Troy and the Northern Black Sea Region in the 3rd Millennium B.C.: The Possibility of Contacts
abstract: The article discusses the maritime relations of the pit grave-catacomb population with Troyas and the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole. The territory of Ukraine from the Neolithic age was influenced by the Ancient Near-Eastern CivilizationCentre, which constantly influenced the development of the population of the south of Ukraine, especially its steppe part. An important trading centre for the entire Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in the 3rdmillennium B.C. was Troy. All economic
journal: NaUKMA Research Papers History and Theory of Culture