Expanded Opportunities Attracted People to Trypillia Culture’s Mega-Settlements

Expanded Opportunities Attracted People to Trypillia Culture’s Mega-Settlements

Over its history, archaeology has seen a varied set of uses made of philosophy and philosophical concepts. A persistent critique has been that too often philosophical or more generally theoretical debates have made little difference in terms of empirical archaeological work and interpretation. Now, archaeologists and philosophers at Kiel University have carried out an interdisciplinary study on the operationalization of the so-called ‘capability approach’ in archaeology. They’ve applied their approach to the giant-settlements of the Trypillia culture (5050 to 2950 BCE).

Reconstruction of a Trypillia house. Image credit: Susanne Beyer, Kiel University.

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