Archaeology of Moldova: Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture, Linear Pottery Culture, House Burning of the Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Linear Pottery culture, House burning of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Decline and end of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Technology of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Religion and ritual of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Economy of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Periodization of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Chernyakhov culture, Symbols and proto-writing of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Architecture of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Diet of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Geography of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Archaeogenetics of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Barter tokens of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Yamna culture, Globular Amphora culture, Bug-Dniester culture, Old Orhei, Cernavod culture, Usatovo culture. Excerpt: The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Cucuteni culture (from Romanian), Trypillian culture (from Ukrainian) or Tripolye culture (from Russian), is a late Neolithic archaeological culture which flourished between ca. 5500 BC and 2750 BC, from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dniester and Dnieper regions in modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, encompassing an area of more than 35,000 km (13,500 square miles). At its peak the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture built the largest settlements in Neolithic Europe, some of which had populations of up to 15,000 inhabitants. Likewise, their density was very high, with the settlements averagely spaced 3 to 4 kilometers apart. One of the most notable aspects of this culture was that every 60 to 80 years the inhabitants of a settlement would burn their entire village. The reason for the burning of the settlements is a subject of debate among scholars; many of the settlements were reconstructed several times on top of...