Поселения-гиганты Триполья–Кукутень: проблемы и перспективы новейших исследований

Abstract

This paper is a review of the most recent investigations of the giant-settlements of the Tripolye culture which was developing in the south of East Europe in the 5th–4th millennium BC. Results of magnetometric surveys and their interpretations are considered, as well as the hypothetic reconstructions of the sequence of formation of these sites. Critical analysis was conducted on the proposed concepts, including the hypothesis about the giant-settlements as “places of pilgrimage”; particular characteristic features of the art of this period of Tripolye are presented.