Combining Relative Chronology and AMS 14C Dating to Contextualize ‘Megasites’, Serial Migrations and Diachronic Expressions of Material Culture in the Western Tripolye Culture, Ukraine

Scholarship regarding the Eneolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine has recently focused on ‘megasites’ Western Tripolye culture (WTC) in Central Ukraine. However, order to properly contextualize such unusual phenomena, we must explore broader typo-chronology WTC, which is suggestive a high degree mobility technological transfer between regions. We report 28 new AMS 14C dates from sites representing diagnostic types propose high-resolution chronological sequence for WTC’s development. Our results support relative chronology offer an opportunity synthesis WTC.