Format:
1 online resource (420 Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-90-8890-850-7
Series Statement:
Scales of transformation in prehistoric and archaic societies Volume 7
Content:
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. The Trypillia 'mega-sites' reached sizes of up to 320 hectares with up to 3000 buildings in one place. During their peak times as many as 11,000 people could have lived in one of those settlements.But how did people come together in these Trypillia 'mega-sites' with several thousand dwellings? How long were such sites inhabited, and how many people lived there? Were these settlements the first towns, preceding the Mesopotamian development? To address these questions, this book presents the results of the investigations at the Maidanets'ke 'mega-site'.To date, Maidanets'ke represents the most complex of these enormous sites and is also among the best investigated ones. Based on new excavations by international teams, the settlement's history, its structure and regional context are addressed. The excavation results, with features like a pottery production site, a causewayed enclosure and several dwellings, are presented in detail. An extensive radiocarbon dating program conducted on various parts of the site, in combination with pottery studies, revealed several phases of continuous occupation between 3990-3640 cal BCE. According to the number of contemporary structures, the demography of a 'mega-site' is reconstructed in detail for the first time.Targeted geophysical surveys in the core area of the 'mega-site' phenomenon show that exceptional non-inhabited buildings and so-called mega-structures occur regularly in both larger and smaller settlements. Overall, the Trypillia settlement system appears scalable, with small sites being structurally similar
Content:
Intro -- Preface of the editors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Aim of study -- 2 Trypillia time and space -- 2.1 Time -- 2.1.1 Radiometric chronology -- 2.2 Space -- 2.2.1 The environmental background -- 2.2.2 Trypillia East and West -- 2.2.3 Development and decline of Trypillia 'mega-sites' -- 2.2.4 Size development -- 2.2.5 Towards a new Trypillia 'mega-site' definition -- 2.3 Local groups of the Southern-Bug-Dnieper interfluve -- 2.3.1 Volodymirivska local group -- 2.3.2 Nebelivska local group -- 2.3.3 Tomashivska local group -- 2.4 The regional settlement and population development -- 3 The Maidanets'ke site -- 3.1 Previous investigations -- 3.1.1 The Trypillia Complex Expedition 1971‑1991 -- 3.1.2 Buildings -- 3.1.3 Construction characteristics -- 3.1.4 Fixed installations -- 3.1.5 Other installations and inventories -- 3.1.6 Pottery and clay plastic -- 3.1.7 Pits -- 3.2 Discussion of previous findings -- 3.2.1 Collapsed walls or connected buildings? -- 3.2.2 Types of buildings -- 3.2.3 Site development and micro-chronology -- 4 The renewed investigations since 2011 -- 4.1 Geomagnetic survey -- 4.2 The 2013 excavations -- 4.3 The 2014 and 2016 investigations -- 4.3.1 Trench 80 - pottery production area -- 4.3.2 Features -- 4.3.3 The stratigraphic sequence (and other relations) -- 4.3.4 Finds -- 4.3.5 Implications -- 4.3.6 Summary of findings -- 4.3.7 Trench 92-A complete household -- 4.3.8 Features -- 4.3.9 Construction characteristics -- 4.3.10 Finds -- 4.3.11 Vessel distribution -- 4.3.12 Other finds -- 4.3.13 Activity areas and household interpretation -- 4.3.14 Implications - The conflagration of dwelling 54 -- 4.3.15 Summary of findings -- 4.3.16 Trench 110 - Ditches, pits and a dwelling -- 4.3.17 Features -- 4.3.18 Feature interpretation and sequence of events -- 4.3.19 Finds
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-9-08890-849-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-90-8890-848-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Siedlung
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Tripolje-Kultur
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Hochschulschrift
