Articolul reprezintă o primă încercare de abordare a rolului operelor de artă descoperite de arheologi ce au aparţinut unor diverse culturi preistorice, care s-au perindat în regiunea Pruto-Nistreană în ultimele şase milenii. O atenţie deosebită i se acordă culturii CucuteniTripolie (mil. VI-III î.e.n), răspândită pe un vast teritoriu al României, Ucrainei şi Republicii Moldova, propunându-ne o gamă variată de ceramică pictată şi figurine din lut ars, care constituie astăzi una dintre cele mai рerformante realizări ale artelor europene.

The study of Fine Arts of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture has provided important insights into the early history of Europe. The Cucuteni–Trypillian culture, which existed in the present-day southeastern European nations of Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine during from approximately 5500 BC to 2750 B.C., left behind thousands of settlement ruins containing a wealth of archaeological artifacts attesting to their cultural and technological characteristics. Many of these artifacts are clay figurines or statues. Archaeologists have identified many of these as fetishes or totems, which are believed to be imbued with powers that can help and protect the people who look after them. These Cucuteni–Trypillian figurines have become known popularly as Goddesses, however, this is actually a misnomer from a scientific point of view.

В статье предпринимается попытка идентифицировать роль художественных произведений, обнаруженных в результате археологических раскопок и представляющие различные доисторические культуры, которые сменялись в Пруто-Днестровском регионе в последние шесть тысячилетий. Особое внимание уделено культуре Кукутень–Триполье (VI-III тыс.д.н.э),которая распространилась на территории сегодняшних стран- Румынии,Украины и Молдавии и представляет разнообразную керамику, украшенной орнаментом и миниатюрную скульптуру,отражающей одну из самых ярких достижений европейского искусства.