MONUMENTS OF THE LATE ROMAN PERIOD – EARLY GREAT MIGRATION PERIOD IN THE DNIEPER-DONETS FOREST-STEPPE: MAIN RESULTS AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

The subject of publication was to assess the level of research of monuments of different cultural groups and to define main studying problems of the region of the Late Roman Period - erly Great Migration Period. Two main concepts of ethno-cultural development of the region at this time. According to first Chernyakhov Culture here appears in a mid-3rd century AD, and there before early 5th century AD. According to another in the middle of the 3rd – early 4th centuries. AD in the region existed early-slavic monuments ("horizon Boromlya") and Chernyahkiv Culture - in the second quarter of the 4th – early 5th centuries AD. Recently, the most convincing is the second hypothesis: the Roman coin finds in the region support this thesis.