The ancient map of Ukraine shows evolutions of Ukraine. This historical map of Ukraine will allow you to travel in the past and in the history of Ukraine in Europe. The Ukraine ancient map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.

Archeological evidence indicates that by the Upper Paleolithic Period (40,000–15,000 BC) almost all of Ukraine was inhabited by clans of hunters and gatherers. During the Mesolithic Period (10,000–7,000 BC) Ukraine inhabitants engaged in fishing, had domesticated dogs, and used the bow and arrow; the first tribal units then appeared. During the Neolithic Period (7,000–3,000 BC) primitive agriculture and animal husbandry arose, as did pottery and weaving. These activities developed further during the Copper Age and Bronze Age. The Trypilian culture (first discovered in 1896), which existed from 4,000 to 2,000 BC in the Dnipro River and Dnister River basins of Right-Bank Ukraine as you can see in Ancient Ukraine map, was the most advanced culture during this period on the ancient territory of Ukraine. Many other synchronous cultures evolved from the late 4th to the early 1st millennium BC. The steppe and forest-steppe in Left-Bank Ukraine were inhabited by the agricultural-pastoral tribes of the Pit-Grave culture, Catacomb culture, Serednii Stih culture, Marianivka culture, Timber-Grave culture, and Bondarykha culture.

During the Iron Age, significant changes occurred in the material culture of Ukraine inhabitants, particularly in agriculture, metallurgy, and commerce. In the early 1st millennium BC Iranian peoples—Cimmerians—appeared on the territory of the Dnipro River and Boh River basins in southern Ukraine. Archeological evidence shows that they, like the tribes of the indigenous Timber-Grave culture, Bilohrudivka culture, Bondarykha culture, and Chornyi Lis culture, had iron implements as its shown in Ancient Ukraine map. In the 8th century BC, the Cimmerians were displaced by the Scythians, tribes of nomadic horsemen from Central Asia that intermingled with and assimilated the indigenous peoples and founded an empire that lasted until the 2nd century AD. The Scythians political and economic hegemony in the region was established after they repulsed the invasion of King Darius of ancient Persia in 513 BC.

From the 7th century BC, Greek city-states founded trading colonies on the northern Pontic littoral as its mentioned in Ancient Ukraine map. With time these towns became independent poleis (see Ancient states on the northern Black Sea coast), which interacted and traded with the other peoples of the region, particularly the Scythians, Taurians, Maeotians, Sindians, and Getae. In the late 5th century BC, the Hellenic towns on the ancient Kerch Peninsula of the Crimea and Taman Peninsula united to form the Bosporan Kingdom. In the 1st century BC the Hellenic states were annexed by the Romans and remained under Roman rule until the invasions of new nomadic peoples: the Sarmatians, Alans, and Roxolani, Iranian-speaking tribes from Central Asia that had appeared in the Pontic steppes in the 4th century BC and had conquered most of the Scythians territories by the 2nd century BC; and the Goths, Germanic tribes that arrived in the late 2nd century AD from the Baltic region and conquered the Sarmatians and other indigenous peoples.