And some researchers argue that decorated eggs date back several millennia, originating with the Stone Age Cucuteni-Trypillia culture in Central Europe, likely as a symbol of nature and rebirth.

Around 5,000 years ago, pastoralists of the Yamna, or Yamnaya, culture from the Pontic–Caspian steppe, which spans eastern Europe and central Asia north of the Black and Caspian seas, rode west ...

Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after ...

The house itself is part of a large settlement created by the agrarian Cucuteni-Trypillia societies, which thrived in regions now known as Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine from 4800 to 3000 BCE.

The Cucutine-Trypillia may have been the “first copper-processing society, whose settlements later reached sub-urban dimensions, with highly productive agricultural economies,” according to a ...

The Cucutine-Trypillia may have been the “first copper-processing society, whose settlements later reached sub-urban dimensions, with highly productive agricultural economies,” according to a ...

Between 4200 and 3600 BC, in the territories that today correspond to Moldova and Ukraine, the impressive mega-settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture emerged, considered among the earliest and ...

More information: Life and death in Trypillia times: Interdisciplinary analyses of the unique human remains from the ...

Life and death in Trypillia times: Interdisciplinary analyses of the unique human remains from the settlement of Kosenivka, Ukraine (3700–3600 BCE). PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (12): e0289769 DOI: 10. ...

Although researching the Trypillia societies and their living conditions in the oldest city-like communities in Eastern Europe will remain challenging, our ‘Kosenvika case’ clearly shows that ...