C U C U T E N I C U L T U R E
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Cucuteni-Trypillia cultureThe Cucuteni culture, better known in the countries of the former Soviet Union as Trypillian culture or Tripolie culture, is a late Neolithic archaeological culture that flourished between ca. 5500 BC and 2750 BC in the Dniester-Dnieper region of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The culture was named after Cucuteni, Iaşi county, Romania, where the first objects associated with this culture were discovered.
In the 1884, Archaeologist Vicenty Khvoika uncovered the fist of close to one hundred Trypillian settlements and excavations started in 1909.
In 1897, similar objects were excavated in Trypillia (Трипiлля; Russian: Tripolye), Kiev Governorate, Ukraine.
As a result, the culture has been known in Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian publications as Tripolie culture or Tripolian culture.
A compromise name is Cucuteni-Trypillia.
As of 2003, about 2000 sites of Cucuteni-Trypillian culture have been identified in Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. J.P. Mallory reports that the
culture is attested from well over a thousand sites in the form of everything from small villages to vast settlements comprised of hundreds of dwellings surrounded by multiple ditches[2]
It was centered on the middle to upper Dniester River (in the present-day Republic of Moldova) with an extension in the northeast to as far as the Dnieper.
The Largest Cities :
Talianki with up to 15,000 inhabitants and covered a area of 450 ha and 2700 houses, 3700 BC.
Dobrovody up to 10,000 inhabitants and covered a area of 2,5 square km and fortified 3800 BC.
Maydanets up to 10,000 inhabitants, area 250 ha, 1575 houses, 3700 BC.
