Maidanets'ke. Development and decline of a Trypillia mega-site in Central Ukraine

• Main Author: Ohlrau, René (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2020
• Series: Scales of Transformation 7
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; settlement archaeology; prehistoric archaeology; early urbanism; geophysical survey; paleodemography; Trypillia; mega-site
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The largest of these sites were found between the Southern Bug and Dnieper river. There they occur only tens of kilometres apart and are assumed to be partly coeval....