Bilozerka culture

Bilozerka culture
  Bilozerka culture
Geographical rangeUkraine, Moldova
PeriodBronze Age
Dates12th century - 10th century BCE
Preceded bySrubnaya culture, Noua-Sabatinovka culture
Followed byBelogrudov culture, Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, Scythians

The Bilozerka culture (Ukrainian: Білозерська культура) or Belozerka culture (Russian: Белозерская культура) was a Late Bronze Age archaeological culture of the later (12th–10th centuries BCE) which replaced the Srubnaya culture on the steppes of Ukraine and Moldova. It is named after the Bilozerka river eastuary in southern Ukraine. There are also finds near the lower Don and in Kuban and Crimea. It was identified as an independent archaeological culture in the 1980s.

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