title: Exchange and Trade between the Northern Black Sea Region and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC
abstract: This research article is concerned with marine communications of the pit grave and catacomb population from the Troad and the Eastern Mediterranean.Relevance of the research. The territory of Ukraine had been influenced by the Ancient Middle- East civilization center since the Neolithic period, which constantly affected the development of the population of the South of Ukraine, especially its steppe part. In the 3rd millennium BC, an important trading center for the entire Eastern Mediterranean 
journal: Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Series in Museology and Monumental Studies