Ukraine, Romania and Moldova submit Trypillia culture to UNESCO list

Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova have jointly nominated a complex of monuments of Trypillian culture, which was spread, among other things, in the Odesa region, to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine.

This refers to the Precucuteni - Ariusd - Cucuteni - Trypillia cultural complex, which covers part of Romania, almost half of Moldova, and Ukraine.

The memorandum, signed by representatives of the countries, confirmed the intentions of Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania to jointly prepare and promote the nomination dossier for the inclusion of the transnational serial site "PrecucuteniAriusd-Cucuteni-Trypillia Cultural Complex: Architectural Heritage" in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Trypillian culture, also Trypillia, Cucuteni culture, or Trypillia-Cucuteni cultural community, is an archaeological culture of the Neolithic and Early Eneolithic periods, the Ukrainian name of which comes from the name of the village of Trypillia in Kyiv region, and the Romanian name from the name of the Romanian village of Cucuteni, where the first archaeological finds of artifacts of this culture were independently discovered in the late nineteenth century. On the territory of modern Ukraine, the Trypillian culture was discovered by a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Vikentiy Khvoyka.

During the later period of the Trypillian culture, the territory inhabited by Trypillians expanded significantly: the lands of eastern Volyn, the drainage areas of the Slucha and Horyna rivers, both banks of the Kyivan Dnipro and the steppes of the northwestern Black Sea region, where Trypillians encountered carriers of other cultures. The Usativ tribes of the western regions of the Northern Black Sea and Lower Dniester (the villages of Usatovo, Halerkany, Borysivka, Mayaki, and others) were assimilated by the carriers of the Yamnaya culture, and thus by the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

In Odesa region, Trypillian culture monuments are distributed throughout the region.

Кирило Бойко