Archaeological cultures in Romania: La Tène culture, Vina culture, Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Linear Pottery culture, Chernyakhov culture

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: La Tène culture, Vinča culture, Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Linear Pottery culture, Chernyakhov culture, Boian culture, Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture, Coțofeni culture, Lipiţa culture, Bükk culture, Globular Amphora culture, Bug-Dniester culture, Hamangia culture, Tiszapolgár culture, Ottomány culture, Cernavodă culture, Basarabi culture, Usatovo culture, Dudeşti culture. Excerpt: The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Cucuteni culture (from Romanian), Trypillian culture (from Ukrainian) or Tripolye culture (from Russian), is a late Neolithic archaeological culture which flourished between ca. 5500 BC and 2750 BC, from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dniester and Dnieper regions in modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, encompassing an area of more than 35,000 km (13,500 square miles). At its peak the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture built the largest settlements in Neolithic Europe, some of which had populations of up to 15,000 inhabitants. Likewise, their density was very high, with the settlements averagely spaced 3 to 4 kilometers apart. One of the most notable aspects of this culture was that every 60 to 80 years the inhabitants of a settlement would burn their entire village. The reason for the burning of the settlements is a subject of debate among scholars; many of the settlements were reconstructed several times on top of earlier ones, preserving the shape and the orientation of the older buildings. One particular location, the Poduri site (Romania), revealed thirteen habitation levels that were constructed on top of each other over many years. The culture was initially named after the village of Cucuteni in Iaşi County, Romania, where the first objects associated with it were discovered. In 1884 the Teodor T. Burada, a scholar from the nearby city of Iaşi, visited the tell (a hill or mound formed by lo...