June
07
/ 2022
The discovery of ancient cultures, and artifacts related to those cultures, often brings for new and surprising information about how our ancient ancestors once lived. Some cultures are found to have engaged in very unique practices. One of these is the 7,000-year-old Eastern European Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, who constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements, only to burn them to the ground every 60 to 80 years, before relocating and rebuilding the same settlement all over again. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"96818","attributes":{"alt":"Pottery from the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture depicting a female goddess and kept at the National History Museum of Moldova. (Cristian Chirita / CC BY-SA 3.0)","class":"media-image","height":"406","style":"width: 610px; height: 406px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Pottery from the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture depicting a female goddess and kept at the National History Museum of Moldova. (Cristian
