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4 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Chalcolithic (4000–3600 BCE, Trypillia BII-CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
150 ha Cucuteni-Trypillia settlement c.4000–3600 BCE (Trypillia BII-CI), with ca. 800 houses in oval concentric plan. Third-tier mega-site in the Southern Bug cluster between Dobrovody and Maydanets.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (3850–3700 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia C1)
One of Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlements, ca. 250 ha with ~1,575 houses and 13 mega-structures in concentric rings, occupied c.3850–3700 BCE (Trypillia CI).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (4100–3400 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia B Imid) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia B1-B2)
Massive Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement on the Tyasmyn basin, 250–260 ha, c.3800–3700 BCE (Trypillia BI–BI–II), with ca. 1,800 houses in concentric oval rings mapped by geomagnetic survey.
