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CUCUTENI:Neolithic Vase, Cucuteni (Iasi County) Romania
The Cucuteni culture, better known in the countries of the former Soviet Union as Trypollian culture or Tripolie culture, is a late Neolithic archaeological culture that flourished between circa 4500 BC and 3000 BC in the Dniester-Dnieper region and in the modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The culture was named after Cucuteni, Iaşi county, Romania, where first objects associated with this culture were discovered in 1884 and excavations started in 1909. In 1897, similar objects were excavated in Trypillia (Трипiлля; Russian: Trepolye), Kiev Governorate, Ukraine. As a result, the culture has been known in Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian publications as Tripolie culture or Tripolian culture. A compromise name is Cucuteni-Trypillia.
The largest collection of artifacts of Cucuteni-Trypollia culture can be found at the museums of Russia, Ukraine, and Romania, including the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Museum of History & Archaeology in Piatra Neamţ.
The Cucuteni culture has been called the first urban culture in Europe. The Trypollia settlements were usually located on a plateau, fortified with earthworks and ditches. The earliest villages consisted of ten to fifteen households. At their heyday, settlements expanded to include several hundred large adobe huts, sometimes with two stories. These houses were typically warmed by an oven and had round windows.
Agriculture is attested, as well as livestock-raising, cattle mainly, but goats/sheep and swine are also evidenced. Wild game is a regular part of the faunal remains. The pottery is connected to the Linear Pottery culture. Copper was extensively imported from the Balkans. Extant figurines excavated at the Cucuteni sites are thought to represent the Mother goddess.
The Cucuteni culture, better known in the countries of the former Soviet Union as Trypollian culture or Tripolie culture, is a late Neolithic archaeological culture that flourished between circa 4500 BC and 3000 BC in the Dniester-Dnieper region and in the modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The culture was named after Cucuteni, Iaşi county, Romania, where first objects associated with this culture were discovered in 1884 and excavations started in 1909. In 1897, similar objects were excavated in Trypillia (Трипiлля; Russian: Trepolye), Kiev Governorate, Ukraine. As a result, the culture has been known in Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian publications as Tripolie culture or Tripolian culture. A compromise name is Cucuteni-Trypillia.
The largest collection of artifacts of Cucuteni-Trypollia culture can be found at the museums of Russia, Ukraine, and Romania, including the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Museum of History & Archaeology in Piatra Neamţ.
The Cucuteni culture has been called the first urban culture in Europe. The Trypollia settlements were usually located on a plateau, fortified with earthworks and ditches. The earliest villages consisted of ten to fifteen households. At their heyday, settlements expanded to include several hundred large adobe huts, sometimes with two stories. These houses were typically warmed by an oven and had round windows.
Agriculture is attested, as well as livestock-raising, cattle mainly, but goats/sheep and swine are also evidenced. Wild game is a regular part of the faunal remains. The pottery is connected to the Linear Pottery culture. Copper was extensively imported from the Balkans. Extant figurines excavated at the Cucuteni sites are thought to represent the Mother goddess.
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cucteni,
iasi county,
moldova,
neolithic,
ukraine
Easter Eggs (Romania) - Hand-painted eggs decorated for the Romanian Orthodox Easter.
Four of the more intricate eggs are painted on real eggshells of which the egg yolk and egg white were previously extracted with the help of a straw or a syringe. Three other eggs are decorated with coloured glass beads glued to the shell and one other (with prevalent greens) is painted on wood.
This technique is typical of the eastern Carpathians of Bucovina and Southern Poland, to a lesser extent as they have a majority of Roman Catholics rather than Orthodox christians.
The eggs are held in a Transylvanian ceramic soup plate.
NOTE: This style of Easter eggs decoration is typical of the Eastern Carpathians province of Bucovina in Northern Romania. You will find that, like in most of Old Europe, wars were waged, land was grabbed by invaders and borders changed according to the whim of the victors and in defiance of the local population and its identity.
This is how, the Northern half of Romanian-speaking Bucovina is, since WWII, in Ukraine, hence the term of "Ukrainian eggs" ascribed to the same style of painted eggs. Before WWI this province was part of the Habsburg Empire and 200 years earlier it was part of the Principality of Moldavia (present-day Romania).
The painted eggs are very much in the tradition of christian Orthodox believers that is of Romanians, Ruthenians (Hutzuls) and Ukrainians.
Four of the more intricate eggs are painted on real eggshells of which the egg yolk and egg white were previously extracted with the help of a straw or a syringe. Three other eggs are decorated with coloured glass beads glued to the shell and one other (with prevalent greens) is painted on wood.
This technique is typical of the eastern Carpathians of Bucovina and Southern Poland, to a lesser extent as they have a majority of Roman Catholics rather than Orthodox christians.
The eggs are held in a Transylvanian ceramic soup plate.
NOTE: This style of Easter eggs decoration is typical of the Eastern Carpathians province of Bucovina in Northern Romania. You will find that, like in most of Old Europe, wars were waged, land was grabbed by invaders and borders changed according to the whim of the victors and in defiance of the local population and its identity.
This is how, the Northern half of Romanian-speaking Bucovina is, since WWII, in Ukraine, hence the term of "Ukrainian eggs" ascribed to the same style of painted eggs. Before WWI this province was part of the Habsburg Empire and 200 years earlier it was part of the Principality of Moldavia (present-day Romania).
The painted eggs are very much in the tradition of christian Orthodox believers that is of Romanians, Ruthenians (Hutzuls) and Ukrainians.
Labels:
easter eggs,
romanian orthodox,
ukraine
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