Talianki

Talianki ("Tallianki, Tal'anky"), Umanskyi Raion, Ukraine is a 4th millennium BC site of the Trypillian culture. The two most prominent features of the Trypillian civilization are the colorful ornamental pottery and the sizable proto-cities. The latter were discovered only 30 years ago with the help of aerial photography. Carbon dating places some of these cities at 4,200 - 2,750 BCE.

Talianki is the largest known Tripyllian settlement. It covered an area of about 450 ha and stretched over 3.5 km in diameter 3.5km x 1.1km and had 15.000 citizens in 2700 houses. The largest buildings were truly immense, 300-600 meters long with many rooms, with the walls and ceilings decorated with black and red patterns.

Situated between the villages of Legedzine and Tallianki, along the road Uman, the site was excavated from 1981 under V. Kruts. By the 3rd millennium BC, the site kurgans of the Yamna culture appear at the site (see Kurganization). Collections from excavations in Talianki are exhibited in Cherkasy regionalmuseum, Museum of Agriculture in Talne and Institute of Archaeology NAS ofUkraine in Kiev.

References

*Talianki — Settlement-Giant of the Tripolian Culture. Investigations in 2001, ISBN 966-02-2379-X

External links

*http://webpages.charter.net/anthropogene/arc_vol1_is9.html Verify credibility|date=May 2008
*http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/se1.shtml
*http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/re3.shtml
*http://www.trypillya.kiev.ua/suvenir_eng.htm
*http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/se4.shtml