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Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?

Trypillia mega-sites: a social levelling concept? - Volume 98 Issue 398

Radiocarbon dating: Trypillia detailed chronology, house duration estimates and the contemporaneity of earliest European mega-sites, in Hofmann, R., Kirleis, W., Müller, J., Rud, V., Ţerna, S. & Videiko, M.Y. Often, but not always, the main living floor was located on the upper surface of this platform, with partly standardised arrangements of ovens, fireplaces (so-called altars), podiums, storage bins and workspaces (Chernovol Reference Chernovol2019). We contend that, by enabling members to participate actively in political decision-making processes, the social make-up of aggregated mega-sites might have had a ‘reforming’ character, which may have been decisive for attracting, for a time, large numbers of people to these communities.

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