Pianeshkove

Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (c. 4800 to 3000 BC)
Characteristic example of Cucuteni–Trypillia pottery
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Pianeshkove Ukraine, is the site of an ancient mega-settlement belonging to the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture dating to between 4300 and 4000 BC. The settlement was very large for the time, covering an area of 100 hectares (250 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 100–450 hectares.^[1]

See also

• Cucuteni–Trypillian culture
• Danubian culture

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