CUCUTENI CULTURE
THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SPECTACULAR PREHISTORIC EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION
Just 27 km from Pascani, in Cucuteni Village, there has been discovered in 1884 the first vestiges of homo-nime culture. Discovered pottery fragments dating prove culture is older than the Sumerian civilization and painted pottery belonging to this culture were realized before the Egyptian pyramids.
Cucuteni-Tripoli culture extended in its heyday over 2
an area of about 350.000 km on nowadays teritory of Moldova, Muntenia North-East, South-East Transylvania and Basarabia to the Nistru. This civilization was born around 5.200 BC. Hr. and was extended over a period of 2.000 years.
These people settlements were built on land platforms with several rooms and the village center there was usually an imposing building used as a community gathering place and sanctuary for religious rituals. Archaeological research proves that settlements stretched over hundreds of hectares, had hundreds of thousands of homes and streets, with 10.000- 15.000 inhabitants. We can say that while the people of those times were organized into tribes, the residents of this culture starting the groundwork of the urban organization, being considered the inventors of the city.
The well organize of their settlement shows that the habitants had a very strong community spirit. The main occupations were hunting, farming, and pottery, weaving or making tools. Those who were most important functions in the community used to adorn themselves, using jewelry made of copper, gold or polished bone.
Vessel belonging to Cucuteni Culture( 3700 to 3500 BC) ˆ
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