THE ROLE OF LINKS AND CONTACTS IN THE CULTURE GENESIS IN THE FOREST-STEPPE OF THE SAMARA VOLGA REGION AND THE URALS REGION IN THE ENEOLITHIC AND THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
Throughout the Holocene the area of the Samara Trans-Volga region and the Southern Urals region was a linking element between the European and the Siberian Asian cultural worlds as well as between the steppe and the forest cultures of Eastern Europe. The links and contacts of the Volga forest-steppe and the Urals region populations reflected in distinctive features of this region cultural development were examined with the use of materials from archaeological sites of the region during turning points in history such as the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age. The study was carried out based on the comprehensive methodology with the use of natural science methods and the review of pottery technology based on A. A. Bobriniskiy's methodology.