Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 15.09.2014
End date : 31.12.2099
The main focus of the project is the investigation of the settlement process in the period between ca. 4800 and 3500 BC in the area between the Carpathians and the Pruth. During this period the Late Neolithic/Copper Age cultures Precucuteni and Cucuteni spread out from the interior of the Carpathian arc over the mountains and the hilly Carpathian foothills (Subcarpathians) into the Eastern European steppe. There, in the culture called Tripilija in the Ukraine, so-called giant settlements were built, some of which had more than a thousand houses.
The aim of the project is to investigate the economic and social processes in the original and core area of the Cucuteni culture, which led to the formation of these giant settlements in the steppe, but did not have such consequences in the topographically differently structured Romanian part of the distribution area.
https://www.uf.phil.fau.de/abteilungen/juengere-urgeschichte/projekte-der-juengeren-urgeschichte/diachrone-landschaftsarchaeolog
Schwerpunkt des Projektes ist die Untersuchung des Besiedlungsablaufes in der Zeit zwischen ca. 4800 und 3500 v. Chr. im Gebiet zwischen den Karpaten und dem Pruth. Die jungneolithischen/kupferzeitlichen Kulturen Precucuteni und Cucuteni breiten sich in dieser Zeit aus dem Inneren des Karpartenbogens über das Gebirge und das hügelige Karpatenvorland (Subkarpaten) in die osteuropäische Steppe hinaus. Dort kommt es dann in der in der Ukraine Tripilija genannten Kultur zur Anlage von sog. Riesensiedlungen mit teilweise über tausend Hausbefunden.