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 …

Human population dynamics and their drivers are not well understood, especially over the
long term and on large scales. Here, we estimate demographic growth trajectories from 9 to …

Chernozems are among the most fertile agricultural soils on Earth and are important
terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Since the Miocene-advent of grassland-ecosystems, they …

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 …

We present a comprehensive data-based characterization of the subsistence economy of
Chalcolithic Cucuteni–Trypillia societies (CTS) on the Moldovian and Suceava plateaus and …

Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed
westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching Europe in the 2nd millennium …

The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly
organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of …

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

This paper presents the results of archaeobotanical studies carried out on the Late
Mesolithic layer at Melnychna-Krucha (6460–6100 cal BC) and the Linearbandkeramik …

Transformations of human societies and environments are closely interwoven. Due to
improved possibilities of paleoecological reconstruction and archaeological methods, we …