Trypillia Mega-Sites and european prehistory 4100-3400 BCE
"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 functione...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, New York
Routledge
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schriftenreihe: | Themes in contemporary archaeology
volume 2 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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 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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| Beschreibung: | xviii, 311 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781910526026 978-1-910526-02-6 1910526029 1-910526-02-9 |