Dobrovody (Ukrainian: Доброводи) is a village located within the Uman Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), Ukraine.

Archaeological site

Dobrovody is a 4th millennium BC site of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. The newest research (2014) indicates that Dobrovody could have contained up to 16,200 citizens,[1] and was one of the largest cities in the world in its day. The total area is about 2.5 km2. Using aerial photography, a fortified city with blocks and streets can be seen. The excavated dwellings had a standard size of 12 × 5 m with a typical interior for the buildings of the Tomaszów group: a stove, a long bench-podium under the wall, a round altar, pithos. At the angle of one of the inhabitants found a ritual burial of a bull's skull. The main category of finds are fragments of pottery collected on the surface and from excavations. Dominated by tableware painted with dark brown paint on orange engobe. A fragment of a housing model with a stove similar to the well-known Sushkiv housing model was found.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Johannes Müller; Knut Rassmann; Mykhailo Videiko (22 January 2016). Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory: 4100-3400 BCE. Taylor & Francis. pp. 347–. ISBN 978-1-317-24791-3.
  2. ↑ "Трипольская культура: почему это так круто - Главное™". 2010-06-29. Archived from the original on 29 June 2010. Retrieved 2022-05-11.


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