Site Studies
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Date
2020
Authors
Albert, Bruce
Innes, Jim
Kremenetski, Konstantin
Millard, Andrew
Nebbia, Marco
Gaydarska, Bisserka
Chapman, John
Miller, Dan
Hale, Duncan
Buchanan, Brian
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Abstract
In this chapter, we draw together and integrate the studies relating to the Nebelivka
megasite at the site level. Three sources of palaeo-environmental evidence – pollen
analysis, soil micro-morphology and molluscan analysis – are used to build up
a picture of the landscape on and around Nebelivka before, during and after the
occupation of the megasite. The pollen, charcoal and non-pollen palynomorphs from
the Nebelivka P1 core provide crucial insights into the unexpectedly low level of human
impact on the landscape, which has had such profound effects on our approach to
the understanding of the megasite. In a fundamental part of this chapter, Duncan
Hale presents the only complete geophysical plan of a Trypillia megasite to date,
enabling Brian Buchanan’s analysis of movement in and through the site by Visual
Graph Analysis and a series of nested analyses of the social space comprising the
megasite – the Quarters, Neighbourhoods and houses. Stuart Johnston summarises
the results of the experimental programme of house construction, house-burning and
excavation of the burnt house. A lengthy section by Bisserka Gaydarska summarises
the results of the Ukrainian-British excavations at Nebelivka. Andrew Millard presents
the Bayesian analysis of the over 80 AMS radiocarbon dates for the megasite, while
Natalia Shevchenko reports on her analyses of the building materials from the Mega-
structure.
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geology, Nebelivka area, Trypillia, human impacts, book chapter
Citation
Site Studies / Bruce Albert, Jim Innes, Konstantin Kremenetski, Andrew Millard, Marco Nebbia, Bisserka Gaydarska, John Chapman, Dan Miller, Duncan Hale, Brian Buchanan, Stuart Johnston, Mykhailo Videiko, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Tuukka Kaikkonen, Svetlana Ivanova, Stoilka Terziiska-Ignatova, Patricia Voke, Natalia Burdo, Natalia Shevchenko // Early Urbanism in Europe : The Trypillia Megasites of the Ukrainian Forest-Steppe / [ed. by] Bisserka Gaydarska. - Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2020]. - P. 111–264.