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 …

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 …

Phytolith analysis has been applied in one of the extraordinary Trypillia “mega-site” in
central Ukraine. The site Maidanetske, dated to ca. 3900–3650 BCE, is composed of ca …

Abstract The Younger Quaternary erosion history was reconstructed in a catchment close to
the Chalcolithic giant settlement Maidanetske, central Ukraine based on dated sediment …

This chapter considers the Assembly Houses of the mega-sites. At Nebelivka, the perimeter
of the site covers a linear distance of c. 5.9 km, of which seventy-three per cent was …

The topic of this chapter is the creation of cultural landscapes through the interference of
humans with the natural environment—in the form of direct manipulation but also through …

Over its history, archaeology has seen a varied set of uses made of philosophy and
philosophical concepts. A persistent critique has been that too often philosophical or more …

This article presents the results of analyses of relics made out of wood that were discovered
during the investigation of the Yampil Barrow Complex (ukraine, Vinnitsa Oblast) in the …

The 2012–2019 investigations in Western Ukraine identified the reaches of the Funnel
Beaker and Tripolye cultures in western Volhynia and on the upper Dniester, and syncretic …