Mysterious Cucuteni-Trypillia Culture Burned Their Settlements For Unknown Reasons
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious Cucuteni-Trypillia culture lived in Eastern Europe thousands of years ago. They left behind a number of intriguing ancient artifacts, destroyed settlements, and sacred sanctuaries. It remains unclear why and how they vanished. It is also a mystery why they regularly burned their settlements.
Recreation of a Cucuteni-Trypillian house burning. Credit: Arheoinvest - Public Domain
These people lived in an area of around 35,000 square kilometers, incorporating parts of present-day Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, between 5400 and 2700 BCE.
The discovery of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture
The culture was initially named after the village of Cucuteni in Romania.
In 1884, Teodor T. Burada, after seeing ceramic fragments in the gravel used to maintain the road from Târgu Frumos to Iași, investigated the Cucuteni quarry, from which the material was mined, where he found pottery fragments and terracotta figurines.
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