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Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory: 4100-3400 BCE book cover

1st Edition

Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory 4100-3400 BCE

Edited By Johannes Müller, Knut Rassmann, Mykhailo Videiko Copyright 2016
332 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge
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In European prehistory population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are a seldom phenomenon. A big surprise to the archaeological community was the discovery of Trypillia mega-sites of more than 250 hectares and with remains of more than 2000 houses by a multidisciplinary approach of Soviet and Ukrainian archaeology, including aerial photography, geophysical prospection and... Read more

Introduction



Johannes Müller and Knut Rassmann



Framing the Mega-Sites



1 Demography and Social Agglomeration: Trypillia in a European Perspective



Johannes Müller



2 Research on Different Scales: 120 Years Trypillian Large Sites Research



Mykhailo Videiko and Knut Rassmann



Mega-Sites



3 The New Challenge for Site Plans and Geophysics: Revealing the Settlement Structure of Giant Settlements by Means of Geomagnetic Survey



Knut Rassmann, Aleksey Korvin-Piotrovskiy, Mykhailo Videiko and Johannes Müller



4 Copper Age Settlements in Moldova: Insights into a Complex Phenomenon from Recent Geomagnetic Surveys



Knut Rassmann, Patrick Mertl, Hans-Ulrich Voss, Veaceslav Bicbaiev and Alexandru Popa and Sergiu Musteaţă



5 Maidanetske: New Facts of a Mega-Site



Johannes Müller and Mykhailo Videiko



6 Nebelivka: From Magnetic Prospection to New Features of Mega-Sites



Nataliia Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko



7 Nebelivka: Assembly Houses, Ditches, and Social Structure



John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska and Duncan Hale



8 Chronology and Demography: How Many People Lived in a Mega-Site?



Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Lennart Brandtstätter, ReneìOhlrau and Mykhailo Videiko



Economies, Social Structure and Ideologies



9 The Natural Background: Forest, Forest Steppe or Steppe Environment



Wiebke Kirleis and Stefan Dreibrodt



10 Demography Reloaded



Aleksandr Diachenko



11 Trypillian Subsistence Economy: Animal and Plant Exploitation



Wiebke Kirleis and Marta Dal Corso



12 Living on the Edge? Carrying Capacities of Trypillian Settlements in the Buh-Dnipro Interfluve



Reneì Ohlrau, Marta Dal Corso, Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes Müller



13 Pottery Kilns in Trypillian Settlements. Tracing the Division of Labour and the Social Organization of Copper Age Co

Biography



Johannes Muller is Professor and Director at the Institute of Pre-and Protohistoric Archaeology of Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

"Each chapter provides additional information in an orderly way, elaborating on both old and new ideas at the same time, but also leaving enough space for readers to develop their own interpretations ... [The book] presents an array of valuable new data, and advances new theoretical approaches to its interpretation ... The main message is therefore not what has been achieved here—which is, undoubtedly, already significant— but what else might be achieved in future."

Francesco Menotti, University of Bradford, UK

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