Archaeological culture · c. 5050–2950 BCE

Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

This farming culture of Moldova, northeastern Romania and Ukraine made striking painted pottery. Between about 4100 and 3500 BCE it built 'mega-sites' such as Talianki, with up to thousands of houses arranged in rings: some of the largest settlements in the world at the time.

Settlements usually lasted 60 to 80 years, then their houses were burned, for reasons still debated. The map shows its spread east to the Dnieper.

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On the map

5050–2950 BCE