Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

The Cucuteni-Trypillia culture was an ancient society that existed in Eastern Europe between 5500 to 2750 BCE. It covered a large area from modern-day Moldova to western Ukraine and northeastern Romania. The culture is known for building large settlements with up to 3,000 structures,^[1][2] and potentially being inhabited by up to 46,000 people.^[3] They had a unique tradition of periodically burning their settlements, and then rebuilding them on top of the old ones. Some settlements had up to 13 levels of habitation.

References

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2. Mantu, Cornelia-Magda (2000). "Cucuteni–Tripolye cultural complex: relations and synchronisms with other contemporaneous cultures from the Black Sea area". Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica. VII. Iași, Romania: Iași University: 267. OCLC 228808567. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
3. Diachenko, Aleksandr; Francesco Menotti (2012). "The gravity model: monitoring the formation and development of the Tripolye culture giant-settlements in Ukraine". Journal of Archaeological Science. 39 (8): 2810–2817. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.025.