Trypillia mega-sites and European prehistory, 4100-3400 BCE

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Title

Trypillia mega-sites and European prehistory, 4100-3400 BCE / edited by Johannes Müller, Knut Rassmann and Mykhailo Videiko.

ISBN

9781910526026

1910526029

9781315630731

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Physical Description

xviii, 311 pages ; 31 cm.

Summary

"Ignored for many years, the archaeology of the Tripillia/Tripolye sites found in modern Ukraine and Moldova can make important contributions to a discussion of scale and settlement nucleation in prehistoric Eurasia and to the interpretation of how such massive agglomerations may have functioned. The Tripillia group of over 30 'mega-sites' are the largest settlements in 4th millennium Europe. This volume assesses the role of the Tripillia mega-sites in the debate over urban origins; and sets the mega-sites in a comparative framework of urban origins in Europe and the Aegean"--Provided by publisher.

Format

Books

Language

English

Added to Catalog

April 07, 2016

Series

Themes in contemporary archaeology, volume 2

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Johannes Müller and Knut Rassmann

[1] Framing the mega-sites

Demography and social agglomeration : Trypillia in a European perspective / Johannes Müller

Research on different scales : 120 years Trypillian large sites research / Mykhailo Videiko and Knut Rassmann

[2] Mega-sites

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

Copper Age settlements in Moldova : insights into a complex phenomenon from recent geomagnetic surveys / Knut Rassmann, Patrick Mertl, Hans-Ulrich Voss, Veaceslav Bicbaiev, Alexandru Popa and Sergiu Musteata

Maidanetske : new facts of a mega-site / Johannes Müller and Mykhailo Videiko

Nebelivka : from magnetic prospection to new features of mega-sites / Nataliia Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko

Nebelivka : assembly houses, ditches, and social structure / John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska and Duncan Hale

Chronology and demography : how many people lived in a mega-site? / Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Lennart Brandtstätter, RenéOhlrau and Mykhailo Videiko

[3] Economies, social structure and ideologies

The natural background : forest, forest steppe or steppe environment / Wiebke Kirleis and Stefan Dreibrodt

Demography reloaded / Aleksandr Diachenko

Trypillian subsistence economy : animal and plant exploitation / Wiebke Kirleis and Marta Dal Corso

Living on the edge? : carrying capacities of Trypillian settlements in the Buh-Dnipro interfluve / RenéOhlrau, Marta Dal Corso, Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes Müller

Pottery kilns in Trypillian settlements : tracing the division of labour and the social organization of Copper Age communities / Aleksey Korvin-Piotrovskiy, Robert Hofmann, Knut Rassmann, Mykhailo Yu Videiko, and Lennart Brandtstätter

From domestic households to mega-structures : proto-urbanism? / Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann and RenéOhlrau

[4] Crisis, collapse, transformation?

Small is beautiful : a democratic perspective? / Aleksandr Diachenko

Trypillia and Uruk / Johannes Müller and Susan Pollock

Mega-sites and mega-cities : from past to present

Low-density agrarian cities : a principle of the past and the present / John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska

Human structure social space : what we can learn from Trypillia / Johannes Müller

Index of places

Index of subjects.

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