Economic-cultural type of the Gorodetskaya population of the Upper Don

The article presents the review of historiography on the economic-cultural type of the Gorodetskaya culture representatives. The author analyzed the whole range of materials, which confirm the presence of one or another type of economy as well as domestic crafts among the Gorodetskaya tribes of the forest steppe Don. The author came to a conclusion that economy of the Don Gorodetskaya population combined hunting, fishery and early forms of agriculture and cattle breading.