A late Copper Age culture of the lower Danube and Black Sea coast marking early contact between Pontic steppe pastoralists and Balkan tell-farming populations.
Fragmented into or was succeeded by the Coțofeni, Baden, Usatove, Yamnaya, and Ezero cultures across its former range.
Covers the Lower Danube Copper Age sequence including steppe contact cultures like Cernavodă.