Invisible Acropolis Posted February 27, 2023 Quote https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/cucuteni-trypillian-002807 The discovery of ancient cultures, and artifacts related to those cultures, often brings for new and surprising information about how our ancient ancestors once lived. Some cultures are found to have engaged in very unique practices. One of these is the 7,000-year-old Eastern European Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, who constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements, only to burn them to the ground every 60 to 80 years, before relocating and rebuilding the same settlement all over again. Pottery from the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture depicting a female goddess and kept at the National History Museum of Moldova. (Cristian Chirita / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Uncovering the Advanced Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture The Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture inhabited Eastern Europe from approximately 5,400 to 2,700 BC. Once living in a vast area of 350,000 square kilometers (135,136 sq mi) covering parts of modern-day Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, they created small and densely populated settlements that were located three to four kilometers apart. This particular civilization has been defined by its high quality clay pottery. Archaeologists Unearth 6,000-Year-Old Temple in Ukraine Ancient Ukrainian Megastructures Were Huge Community Centers The first related discoveries were actually made as recently as the 1880s. Known as “Cucuteni” in Romania and “Trypillia” in the Ukraine, its name comes from the places where artifacts were first discovered: the village of Cucuteni in Romania, where the folklorist Teodor Burada first came across ceramic fragments in 1884, and Trypillia in the province of Kyiv Oblast in the Ukraine, where Vikentiy Khvoyka discovered a vast Neolithic site which was announced in 1897. Years later, these finds were recognized as belonging to the same culture. View of Neolithic Trypillia by Vsevolod Ivanov. (Fair Use) “Surely one of the most impressive civilizations of Neolithic Europe, and by some measures totally outdid the famous first cities of Mesopotamia,” explained Dan Davis History . Nevertheless, very few people have heard of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. Here is another interesting piece of pottery from this culture: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
