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The book by the outstanding ethnographer, archaeologist and linguist, generalist scientist Professor V.P. Petrov is dedicated to an issue of current interest to modern Ukrainian studies. For almost 50 years, the work remained unknown to the scientific community and is being published for the first time. The author pays close attention to the earliest phases of the formation of the Ukrainian ethnos, examines the fate of its ancestors in the era of the ancient agricultural Trypillian culture, in Scythian times, during the period of relations with the Roman Empire, etc.

For all those interested in the ancient past of Ukraine.