Статтю присвячено дослідженню питання неолітизації середньої течії басейну Сіверського Дінця.
The transition processes from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Mid Stream of the Siversky Donets River are discussed in this paper. The process of Neolithisation in this region is connected with widespread use of ceramic production at first on Starobilsk-1 site (first quarter of 6 millennium BC). Any evidence of farming on this site is absent and animal domestication needs to be confirmed. There is no mention of ceramics in the Early Neolithic layers of Donetsk culture used with “archaic” flint complexes and it is doubtful ceramics were used there.