Palaguta I. Tripolye Culture during the Beginning of the Middle Period (BI): The relative chronology and local grouping of sites

British Archaeological Reports, 2007. — 182 p. — (BAR International Series; 1666). — ISBN: 978-1-4073-0070-2.This study produces a chronology and examines the regional distribution of the highly decorative Cucuteni pottery in the area between the Carpathians and the Dneiper. It focuses on the spread of the Tripolye culture and settlement in the early agricultural period. The study includes a catalogue of Cucuteni pottery.Preface (by Dr P.M. Kozhin).
introduction & Acknowledgements.
Periodisation and Local Variations of Tripolye BI — Cucuteni A Culture: a Review of Historiography.
Cucuteni A — Tripolye BI Area: the Degree of Knowledge and Site Groups.
Ceramic Assemblages of Tripolye-Cucuteni Settlements: Methods of Study and General Features of the Material.
Current approaches to the study of Tripolye-Cucuteni ceramic assemblages.
Ceramic assemblage as the main unit of research.
Pottery technologies.
Characteristics of Tripolye BI – Cucuteni A Sites.
North-Moldavian settlements.
Settlements of Jura and Bereşti type in the Southern part of Tripolye-Cucuteni area.
Sites of Central Moldova and Carpathian Region.
Sites of Bug Lands and Bug-Dniester interfluves.
Periodization and Local Variants of Tripolye BI Sites.
Main stages of cultural development in Tripolye BI - Cucuteni A period.
Tripolye-Cucuteni area: zones of prevailing painted or relief-decorated pottery, and additional criteria for zone definition.
Local variants.
Development of local groups.
Pottery Decorations and Culture Development.
Initial decorative forms and their development.
Helical patterns in Tripolye BI - Cucuteni A period.
Tripolye BI - Cucuteni A and Neighboring Cultures: Synchronization and Interrelations.
Tripolye-Cucuteni in the range of ‘painted-pottery cultures’ of Balkan-Carpathian region: the Southern connections.
Tripolye-Cucuteni culture and Transcarpathian Eneolithic cultures.
Eastern connections of Tripolye-Cucuteni: the problem of ‘Cucuteni C-type pottery’.
North-East of Tripolye area: Advancement towards Dnieper river.