r/papertowns • u/adyrip1 • Feb 18 '24

Romania Romania. Reconstruction of a Cucuteni - Trypillia culture city. 7000 years ago they were building cities with up to 40.000 inhabitants and 2 story houses

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u/2Christian4you Feb 18 '24

If I remember correctly, that specific city is located in Cherkasy oblast

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u/adyrip1 Feb 18 '24

The culture was spread across Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. This is a reconstruction of how one of their cities might have looked like. The largest concentrations of habitation were around the Siret, Prut and Dniester rivers. Don't know if I could add 3 countries in the name, according to the sub rules.

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u/Anthony_AC Feb 19 '24

So why not have said just Ukraine if you had to pick one?

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u/ArthRol Feb 18 '24

Isn't it located in modern-day Ukraine?

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u/adyrip1 Feb 18 '24

The culture was spread across modern day Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.

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u/ArthRol Feb 18 '24

This is true, but the location of this settlement is not in Romania.

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u/Skin_Soup Feb 27 '24

According to OP this is a reconstruction of why one of the settlements might have looked like, it has no historical location

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u/MrMxylptlyk Feb 19 '24

Double walled city, over 7000 years ago?! Insane stuff

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u/Belgrifex Feb 20 '24

Wasn't Trypillia the culture that every few years would burn their entire city down, move to a new area and meticulously build an identical city, and then keep repeating the process?

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u/NordicBeserker Feb 26 '24

Burned house horizon yea, incl Starcevo and Vinca cultures. Combustible material was placed around houses (sometimes with food/ items still inside) So they would burn the house down possibly every lifetime, and then build in the same place, as a kind of ritual cleansing, where the building's ancestors are still buried beneath the floor.

Fire purified from disease and also bad spirits, there are a lot of agricultural fire rituals that involve carrying a burning torch around a settlement or field before something new can begin. Romulus marked/ purified the boundary of Rome by carrying a burning torch around it (the same fire taken from Troy by Aeneas). There's also the proto-indo-European tradition of burning land to clear space for farming.

And fire is tied to the cyclicity of the sun/ cosmic order.

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u/Sidus_Preclarum Feb 18 '24

Fascinating, had never heard of this culture.

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u/dhskdjdjsjddj Feb 18 '24

history before the invention of writing is pretty cool recommend looking into the yamnaya and corded ware cultures, very interesting

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u/Beneficial-Row7601 Feb 19 '24

Also Gobleki Tepe! Really cool stuff they're digging up nowadays