Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory

JohannesMuller is Professor and Director at the Institute of Pre-and Protohistoric Archaeology of Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

• Introduction Johannes Müller and Knut RassmannFraming the Mega-Sites1 Demography and Social Agglomeration: Trypillia in a European Perspective Johannes Müller2 Research on Different Scales: 120 Years Trypillian Large Sites Research Mykhailo Videiko and Knut RassmannMega-Sites3 The New Challenge for Site Plans and Geophysics: Revealing the Settlement Structure of Giant Settlements by Means of Geomagnetic Survey Knut Rassmann, Aleksey Korvin-Piotrovskiy, Mykhailo Videiko and Johannes Müller4 Copper Age Settlements in Moldova: Insights into a Complex Phenomenon from Recent Geomagnetic Surveys Knut Rassmann, Patrick Mertl, Hans-Ulrich Voss, Veaceslav Bicbaiev and Alexandru Popa and Sergiu Musteaţă5 Maidanetske: New Facts of a Mega-Site Johannes Müller and Mykhailo Videiko6 Nebelivka: From Magnetic Prospection to New Features of Mega-Sites Nataliia Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko7 Nebelivka: Assembly Houses, Ditches, and Social Structure John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska and Duncan Hale8 Chronology and Demography: How Many People Lived in a Mega-Site? Johannes Müller, Robert Hofmann, Lennart Brandtstätter, ReneìOhlrau and Mykhailo VideikoEconomies, Social Structure and Ideologies9 The Natural Background: Forest, Forest Steppe or Steppe Environment Wiebke Kirleis and Stefan Dreibrodt10 Demography Reloaded Aleksandr Diachenko11 Trypillian Subsistence Economy: Animal and Plant Exploitation Wiebke Kirleis and Marta Dal Corso12 Living on the Edge? Carrying Capacities of Trypillian Settlements in the Buh-Dnipro Interfluve Reneì Ohlrau, Marta Dal Corso, Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes Müller13 Pottery Kilns in Trypillian Settlements. Tracing the Division of Labour and the Social Organization of Copper Age Co

"Each chapter provides additional information in an orderly way, elaborating on both old and new ideas at the same time, but also leaving enough space for readers to develop their own interpretations ... [The book] presents an array of valuable new data, and advances new theoretical approaches to its interpretation ... The main message is therefore not what has been achieved here—which is, undoubtedly, already significant— but what else might be achieved in future."Francesco Menotti, University of Bradford, UK