Isotopes prove advanced, integral crop production, and stockbreeding strategies nourished Trypillia mega-populations

F Schlütz, R Hofmann, M Dal Corso… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
After 500 y of colonizing the forest-steppe area northwest of the Black Sea, on the territories
of what is today Moldova and Ukraine, Trypillia societies founded large, aggregated …

Interactions between Trypillian farmers and North Pontic forager-pastoralists in Eneolithic central Ukraine

AG Nikitin, M Videiko, N Patterson, V Renson… - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The establishment of agrarian economy in Eneolithic East Europe is associated with the Pre-
Cucuteni-Cucuteni-Trypillia complex (PCCTC). PCCTC farmers interacted with Eneolithic …

Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske

CA Makarewicz, R Hofmann, MY Videiko, J Müller - Antiquity, 2022 - cambridge.org
The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly
organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of …

Combining relative chronology and AMS 14C dating to contextualize 'megasites', serial migrations and diachronic expressions of material culture in the Western …

TK Harper, A Diachenko, YY Rassamakin… - Documenta …, 2021 - journals.uni-lj.si
Scholarship regarding the Eneolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex of Romania,
Moldova and Ukraine has recently focused on 'megasites' of the Western Tripolye culture …

Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Middle Bronze Age of East-Central Europe

Ł Pospieszny, P Makarowicz, J Lewis, J Górski… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Broomcorn millet is one of the most important plants species in pre-history. It was first
domesticated in China and subsequently spread across Eurasia becoming a significant …

Tracing human mobility in central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic using sub-seasonally resolved Sr isotope records in ornaments

N Kowalik, R Anczkiewicz, J Wilczyński, P Wojtal… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mobility of people and goods during the Upper Paleolithic has proven difficult to reconstruct
given the relative rareness of remains. Nevertheless, archaeological contexts like the Late …

Genomes from Verteba cave suggest diversity within the Trypillians in Ukraine

P Gelabert, RW Schmidt, DM Fernandes, JK Karsten… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leading researchers
to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or a colonisation event. In the forest …

Life and death in Trypillia times: Interdisciplinary analyses of the unique human remains from the settlement of Kosenivka, Ukraine (3700–3600 BCE)

K Fuchs, R Hofmann, L Shatilo, F Schlütz, S Storch… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We present an interdisciplinary analysis of finds from the Trypillia settlement of Kosenivka,
Ukraine (ca. 3700–3600 BCE, Trypillia C1–2), that links information on human, faunal, and …

Continuation of fishing subsistence in the Ukrainian Neolithic: diet isotope studies at Yasinovatka, Dnieper Rapids

C Budd, I Potekhina, M Lillie - Archaeological and Anthropological …, 2020 - Springer
Yasinovatka is one of around 30 prehistoric cemetery sites of fisher-hunter-foragers located
along the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine. Dating to c. 5540–4930 cal BC, the skeletal …

Life and death in Trypillia times: interdisciplinary analyses of the exceptional human remains from the settlement of Kosenivka, Ukraine (3700–3600 BCE)

K Fuchs, R Hofmann, L Shatilo, F Schlütz, S Storch… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
We present an interdisciplinary analysis of finds from the Trypillia settlement of Kosenivka,
Ukraine (ca. 3700–3600 BCE, Trypillia C1), that links information on human, faunal, and …