Novocherkassk culture
The Chernogorivka and Novocherkassk cultures are Iron Age steppe cultures in Ukraine and Russia, centered between the Prut and the lower Don. They are pre-Scythian cultures, associated with the Cimmerians.
In 1971 the Vysokaja Mogila kurgan was excavated in the Lower Dnieper River basin. Grave number 5 dates to the late Chernogorivka period and grave number 2 to the younger Novocherkassk period.
The Novocherkassk culture expands to a larger area between the Danube and the Volga and is associated with the Eastern European Thraco-Cimmerian artefacts.
