After 500 y of colonizing the forest-steppe area northwest of the Black Sea, on the territories
of what is today Moldova and Ukraine, Trypillia societies founded large, aggregated …

The Trypillia megasites of the Ukrainian forest steppe formed the largest fourth-millennium
bc sites in Eurasia and possibly the world. Discovered in the 1960s, the megasites have so …

Recently, high-resolution magnetometry surveys have led to the discovery of a special
category of buildings–so-called 'mega-structures'–situated in highly visible positions in the …

Recent studies in archaeological demography, which are based upon the concept of
punctuated equilibrium, went far from equating certain numbers of people with types of …

At the end of the fifth millennium bc, some of the largest settlements of the time emerged on
the Pontic forest steppe. Some scholars proposed to include these mega-sites into the …

The currently prevailing view of the Trypillia mega-sites of the fourth millennium BC has
been the dominant model for over 40 years: they were extra-large settlement examples of …

In the last decade, we have witnessed a second methodological revolution in research into
the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine–the largest sites in fourth-millennium BC Europe and …

Wood was a crucial resource for prehistoric societies, for instance, as timber for house
construction and as fuel. In the case of the exceptionally large Chalcolithic Tripolye 'mega …

How did socio-cultural transformation processes change land-use patterns? Throughout the
last 50 years, outstanding comprehensive geographic, archaeobiological, and …

New research results on Late Hallstatt settlement patterns have been used to describe
agglomerated central settlements; for example, the Heuneburg, as “cities” or “subcities”(see …