Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (c. 4800 to 3000 BC) |
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Characteristic example of Cucuteni–Trypillia pottery |
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Kvitky, Ukraine, is the site of an ancient mega-settlement belonging to the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture dating to 3600–3200 BC. The settlement was very large for the time, covering an area of up to 150 hectares (370 acres). This proto-city is just one of 2,440 Cucuteni–Trypillia settlements discovered so far in Moldova and Ukraine. Some 194 (8%) of these settlements had an area of more than 10 hectares between 5000–2700 BC and more than 29 settlements had an area in the range of 100 to 450 hectares.