From Ros to Prut (volume 2)

Transformations of Trypillia settlements
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-94-6427-075-4
Verlag: Sidestone Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 19.2, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm

Reihe: Scales of Transformation

Pre-dating the urban revolution in Western Asia, a network of agricultural settlements developed in the forest-steppe zone northwest of the Black Sea in the late 5th and first half of the 4th millennium BCE, some of which are among the largest prehistoric mega-sites in Europe. These enormous so-called Trypillia communities are unique in many respects, and the dynamics of their formation and their development have long been a topic of intensive research. For more than ten years now, research on the transformations of these Chalcolithic societies has been conducted as a Ukrainian-Moldavian-German cooperation. This research does not only focus on some of the largest mega-sites, but also attempts to reconstruct the dynamics of mega-site processes and their economic, social and ideological foundations in different perspectives – local, regional and interregional. Although our research is not yet complete, it is already clear that the emergence of Trypillia mega-sites represented the preliminary culmination of a regionally differentiated and widely interconnected process of settlement formation in the area between the Prut and Ros rivers. These processes were, on the one hand, closely interwoven with Copper Age societies of Southeast Europe and, on the other hand, ushered in the transition to the era characterised by higher settlement mobility.

This volume brings together archaeological, geophysical, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and geoarchaeological contributions on economy, settlement patterns, material culture and dating from three different test regions in the territory of present-day Ukraine and Moldova. The presentation of our new data contributes decisively to a better understanding of both the enormous variability of settlement trajectories characterising this vast area and to connecting developments throughout time.

Volume 2 contains contributions on the interfluves of the Southern Bug and Dniester, and the Dniester and Prut. Additionally, it provides regionally overarching insights.

Volume 1 contains contributions on the Maidanetske mega-site and the Sinyukha River basin (Dnieper-southern Bug interfluve).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hofmann, Robert

Kirleis, Wiebke

Müller, Johannes

Rud, Vitalii

Terna, Stanislav†

Videiko, Mykhailo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

BUG-DNIESTER INTERFLUVE (REGION B)

14. Tracing Trypillia transformations in the Southern Bug – Dniester interfluve: Archaeological explorations in the Kryzhopil microregion, Ukraine
Vitalii Rud, Robert Hofmann, Viktor Kosakivskyi, Olha Zaitseva, Johannes Müller

15. Cult objects from Trypillia settlements of the Vinnitsa Region
Natalia Burdo, Vitalii Rud, Robert Hofmann

PRUT-DNIESTER INTERFLUVE (REGION C)

16. Pits as durable narratives – Results of the 2019 excavation campaign in the Trypillia settlement Stolniceni 1, Moldova
Stanislav Terna, Andreea Terna, Robert Hofmann, Mariana Vasilache, Marta Dal Corso, Yevhenii Sliesariev, Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller

17. Putinesti 3 and Trinca: Geophysical investigation of middle and late Trypillia settlements in Moldova
Robert Hofmann, Stanislav Terna, Ghenadie Sirbu, Liudmyla Shatilo, Vitalii Rud

18. Trypillia settlements after mega-sites: Archaeological and geophysical Investigations in the Cunicea micro-region, Prut-Dniester interfluve
Stanislav Terna, Robert Hofmann, Liudmyla Shatilo, Vitalii Rud

TRYPILLIA MACROSCALE
19. Radiocarbon dating: Trypillia detailed chronology, house duration estimates and the contemporaneity of earliest European mega-sites
Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Wiebke Kirleis, Mila Shatilo, Frank Schlütz, Miha Videika, Vitali Rud, Stanislav Terna, Andrea Terna

20. Ring-shaped settlement plans and Trypillia population agglomeration
Robert Hofmann, Liudmyla Shatilo, Knut Rassmann, Vitalii Rud, Stanislav Terna, Stefan Dreibrodt, Vladislav Chabanyuk, Wiebe Kirleis, Johannes Müller

CONCLUSION
21. Transformations of Trypillia settlements
Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Wiebke Kirleis, Mila Shatilo, Frank Schlütz, Miha Videika, Vitali Rud, Stanislav Terna, Andrea Terna

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Robert Hofmann:

Robert Hofmann is a researcher at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. After early beginnings in a school club of ‘young archaeologists’ and several years of working in a county ar