Tripolyen.
/trɪˈpɒljə/ Used attributively to denote a neolithic culture typified by remains found there, which flourished in the western Ukraine and in eastern Romania during the late fourth and third millennia b.c.
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Tripolye1913
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Yang-shao1923
Michelsberg1929
Tasian1929
Tahunian1936
Halafian1937
Jomon pottery1946
Lung-shan1972
1913 E. H. Minns Scythians & Greeks vii. 134 The first finds were made about the village of Tripolje on the Dnêpr forty miles below Kiev, whence this is called the Tripolje culture. The remains consist of so-called ‘areas’ (ploshchádka).
1935 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 113 In successful search for painted pottery of the Tripolye type.
1937 Discovery Jan. 27/1 The Tripolje culture, so called from the site in Southern Russia on which it was first found, has as its most characteristic feature painted pottery.
1957 G. Clark Archaeol. & Society (ed. 3) vi. 190 Significant differences have been noted between the composition of animal remains from sites of the Tripolje culture marked by painted and grooved pottery and from those of the neighbouring Ousatovo culture.
1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 237/2 Tripolye culture came to an end with the expansion westwards of steppe cultures of kurgan or Single-Grave type.
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