Radiocarbon dating: Trypillia detailed chronology, house duration estimates and the contemporaneity of earliest European mega-sites

Müller, Johannes and Hofmann, Robert and Kirleis, Wiebke and Shatilo, Liudmyla and Schlütz, Frank and Videiko, Mykhailo and Rud, Vitalii and Țerna, Stanislav and Terna, Andreea (2025) Radiocarbon dating: Trypillia detailed chronology, house duration estimates and the contemporaneity of earliest European mega-sites Колективна (три і більше авторів). Sidestone Press, Leiden, Leiden.

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Abstract

In Europe, early giant settlements with a settled area of more than 100 ha are known from the Central Ukrainian Chalcolithic ca. 4100–3600 BCE. Recent environmental, geophysical and archaeological investigations confirmed the immense size of these ‘mega-sites’. Nevertheless, answers to raised questions regarding population densities, carrying capacities and social developments depend on a secure chronological phasing of the phenomenon. In three test areas, the dating program for mega- and other sites was conducted. In addition to already existing data, context analyses of the sampled features allowed a secure reconstruction of the chronology including Bayesian calibration at many localities. The discovery of a clear spatial concept of settlement occupation, the ontemporaneity of different investigated mega-sites, and the reconstruction of household durations and of overall site developments within local roots changed the view on Trypillia. In consequence, triggers of mega-site foundation and abandonment have been identified. The chronological models verify a high population density (not less than 37.5 p/km² in the Central Sinyukha Basin, Central Ukraine, representing the Trypillia mega-site core area during Middle Trypillia)

Item Type:	Monograph (Колективна (три і більше авторів))
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Radiocarbon dating;Trypillia culture; detailed chronolog; house duration;Europe; mega-sites
Subjects:	Монографії > Видані в іноземному видавництві мовами ОЕСР/ЄС
Divisions:	Факультет суспільно-гуманітарних наук > Кафедра історії України
Depositing User:	д.і.н. Михайло Юрієвич Відейко
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2025 09:00
Last Modified:	23 Dec 2025 07:01
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/53586

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