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Ritual practices of cursing and heroic commemoration among speakers of ancient Indo-European languages exhibit numerous features of inherited juridico-religious vocabulary. Through its grounding in the ethos of a pre-ancient, semi-nomadic tribal society, this vocabulary can be linked to a set of contiguous notions, such as the poetic realization of glory, afterlife recompense, the wolfish persona of warrior chieftains, and the humiliating treatment of cowards and criminals through strangulation and phallic aggression. In what follows, an attempt is made to demonstrate the tenacity of this conceptual system by paying brief initial attention to a Greek funerary epigram from 6th BCE century Rhodes, and then by analysing two runic inscriptions from 6th to 7th century CE southern Sweden (Björketorp and Stentoften).

The article presents the present state of research on the general issue of the dniester region of cultural contacts between communities settling the Baltic and Pontic drainage basins. Some ive domains of research shall be brought to discussion in which it is possible to see fresh opportunities for archaeological study, on the basis of "Yampil studies" on dniester-Podolia (forest-steppe) barrow-culture ceremonial centres from the latter half of the 4th millennium and irst half of the 3rd millennium BC. This relates to the peoples of the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze age. in terms of topogenesis, embracing the Pontic-Tripolye, Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, as well as Globular amphora and Corded ware in central prehistoric Europe.

The article presents the present state of research on the general issue of the dniester region of cultural contacts between communities settling the Baltic and Pontic drainage basins. Some ive domains of research shall be brought to discussion in which it is possible to see fresh opportunities for archaeological study, on the basis of "Yampil studies" on dniester-Podolia (forest-steppe) barrow-culture ceremonial centres from the latter half of the 4th millennium and irst half of the 3rd millennium BC. This relates to the peoples of the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze age. in terms of topogenesis, embracing the Pontic-Tripolye, Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, as well as Globular amphora and Corded ware in central prehistoric Europe.

The article presents the present state of research on the general issue of the dniester region of cultural contacts between communities settling the Baltic and Pontic drainage basins. Some ive domains of research shall be brought to discussion in which it is possible to see fresh opportunities for archaeological study, on the basis of "Yampil studies" on dniester-Podolia (forest-steppe) barrow-culture ceremonial centres from the latter half of the 4th millennium and irst half of the 3rd millennium BC. This relates to the peoples of the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze age. in terms of topogenesis, embracing the Pontic-Tripolye, Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, as well as Globular amphora and Corded ware in central prehistoric Europe.