"Each chapter provides additional information in an orderly way, elaborating on both old and new ideas at the same time, but also leaving enough space for readers to develop their own interpretations ... [The book] presents an array of valuable new data, and advances new theoretical approaches to its interpretation ... The main message is therefore not what has been achieved herewhich is, undoubtedly, already significant but what else might be achieved in future."Francesco Menotti, University of Bradford, UK

Autorentext

Johannes **Muller** is Professor and Director at the Institute of Pre-and Protohistoric Archaeology of Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

Klappentext

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

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Introduction

Johannes Müller and Knut Rassmann

Framing the Mega-Sites

1 Demography and Social Agglomeration: Trypillia in a European Perspective

Johannes Müller

2 Research on Different Scales: 120 Years Trypillian Large Sites Research

Mykhailo Videiko and Knut Rassmann

Mega-Sites

3 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

4 Copper Age Settlements in Moldova: Insights into a Complex Phenomenon from Recent Geomagnetic Surveys

Knut Rassmann, Patrick Mertl, Hans-Ulrich Voss, Veaceslav Bicbaiev and Alexandru Popa and Sergiu Mustea

5 Maidanetske: New Facts of a Mega-Site

Johannes Müller and Mykhailo Videiko

6 Nebelivka: From Magnetic Prospection to New Features of Mega-Sites

Nataliia Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko

7 Nebelivka: Assembly Houses, Ditches, and Social Structure

John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska and Duncan Hale

8 Chronology and Demography: How Many People Lived in a Mega-Site?

Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Lennart Brandtstätter, ReneìOhlrau and Mykhailo Videiko

Economies, Social Structure and Ideologies

9 The Natural Background: Forest, Forest Steppe or Steppe Environment

Wiebke Kirleis and Stefan Dreibrodt

10 Demography Reloaded

Aleksandr Diachenko

11 Trypillian Subsistence Economy: Animal and Plant Exploitation

Wiebke Kirleis and Marta Dal Corso

12 Living on the Edge? Carrying Capacities of Trypillian Settlements in the Buh-Dnipro Interfluve

Reneì Ohlrau, Marta Dal Corso, Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes Müller

13 Pottery Kilns in Trypillian Settlements. Tracing the Division of Labour and the Social Organization of Copper Age Co