🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki – Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic, Trypillia BII Cucuteni A-B · Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
3850 BCE 450-ha burnt-house proto-city—6,000 inhabitants, Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlement.
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Verteba Cave
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI–C1 (4100–3500 BCE) Podolia cave sanctuary · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Podolia cave sanctuary phase, Bilche-Zolote variant)
Verteba Cave (Peștera Verteba) — gypsum karst cave sanctuary (Cucuteni-Trypillia CI 4100–3500 BCE, 9 km passages) at Bilche-Zolote, Podolia, Ukraine's largest Trypillia cave site.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Trypillia
Neolithic–Chalcolithic Trypillia A–C2 (5500–3500 BCE) type · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Eastern branch) — Khvoika's Tripolye
Trypillia (Trypillya/Tripolye) — eponymous type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1893–97 by Vikentiy Khvoika on Dnieper right bank 40 km south Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)
Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Varvarovka 8 (Usatovo)
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Tripolye C2 → Usatovo (c.3500–3200 BCE) → Early Yamnaya fringe · Late Trypillia C2 → Usatovo (Post-Trypillia) steppe–farming synthesis → Early Yamnaya infiltration
Usatovo village–kurgan cemetery (c.3500–3200 BCE) on liman — Trypillia→Yamnaya bridge with stelae and copper (Petrenko).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Kolomiychyna (Trypillia)
Middle Chalcolithic Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE); Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 transition megacluster · Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 (Trypillia near Kyiv core) → B2 megasites
Middle Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE) palisaded village with 40 burnt houses on Stugna — eponymous Trypillia cluster near Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)
Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Vesely Kut
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (3800–3650 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Tomashivka)
Vesely Kut — Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3650 BCE, ~150 ha, 1,200+ houses) on Yatran River, Cherkasy, western SBDI cluster with Dobrovody–Maydanetske–Talianki.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Vesely Kut Trypillia Settlement
Chalcolithic (4000–3600 BCE, Trypillia BII-CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
150 ha Cucuteni-Trypillia settlement c.4000–3600 BCE (Trypillia BII-CI), with ca. 800 houses in oval concentric plan. Third-tier mega-site in the Southern Bug cluster between Dobrovody and Maydanets.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Trypillia (Trypillya) Type Site
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets (Maydanetske) Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (3850–3700 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia C1)
One of Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlements, ca. 250 ha with ~1,575 houses and 13 mega-structures in concentric rings, occupied c.3850–3700 BCE (Trypillia CI).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (4100–3400 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia B Imid) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia B1-B2)
Massive Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement on the Tyasmyn basin, 250–260 ha, c.3800–3700 BCE (Trypillia BI–BI–II), with ca. 1,800 houses in concentric oval rings mapped by geomagnetic survey.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maidanetske
Trypillia C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Largest Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (c.3900–3600 BCE, 200 ha mapped core but estimates to 450 ha, perhaps 46,000 houses phases, peak 12–15k inhabitants), direct neighbour to Talianki forming…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Volodymyrivka
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI (4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia BI (Tomashivka central)
Volodymyrivka — Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3800 BCE, 100 ha, 800 houses) on Synyukha River, Kirovohrad, SBDI central cluster between Nebelivka and Dobrovody.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Lehedzyne Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Trypillia BI–BII (c.4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Trypillia BI)
One of the classic Trypillia BI mega-sites near Lehedzyne (Legedzine), 90 ha with ~1100+ houses identified by magnetometry, excavated and famously reconstructed as a full-scale burning experiment in…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Nebelivka
Trypillia B2–C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (approx 4100–3600 BCE, 260–300 ha, 1,000+ mapped houses) renowned for the burnt temple mega-structure (60×20 m, 1,200 m²) with seven altars, painted vessels, and a clay…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki
Trypillia C1 (Cucuteni B2) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia mega-site phenomenon)
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement (c.3850–3700 BCE, 450 ha, perhaps 15,000 inhabitants) — largest city in Europe at that time, larger than Uruk contemporary — with concentric burnt houses (2,700…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Fedorivka Trypillia Settlement
Trypillia BI (c.4400–4100 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Mid-size Trypillia BI settlement near Fedorivka on the Ros basin interfluve, ca.25 ha with dense house clusters revealed by survey. Part of the early BI expansion northward.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Vilkhovets Trypillia Settlement
Trypillia BI–BII transition (c.4150–3950 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Trypillia settlement at Vilkhovets on the foothills of the Dnieper Uplands, bridging BI painted tradition and BII mega-site elaboration.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Kosenivka Trypillia Settlement
Trypillia BII (c.4050–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
BII settlement at Kosenivka in the core Southern Bug–Dnieper mega-site cluster between Dobrovody and Maydanets.