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Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements (2024)
Journal Article
Bentley, R. A., Carrignon, S., Gaydarska, B., Chapman, J., Buchanan, B., & O'Brien, M. J. (2024). Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 21(219), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0313

As zoonotic diseases coevolved with early agriculture, social distancing within dense human settlements could have conferred a selective advantage in terms of infection risk. Here, we consider the case of Trypillia mega-settlements after 4000 BC, as... Read More about Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements.

Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory (2023)
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Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., Buchanan, B., & Chapman, J. (2023). Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory. Journal of urban archaeology, 7, 115-145. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.jua.5.133453

The Trypillia mega-sites (‘TMS’) form an exceptional aspect of the broader Cucuteni–Trypillia group in the Balkan and East European Neolithic and Chalcolithic. The TMS are currently the largest sites and the earliest urban complexes in Eurasia in the... Read More about Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory.

The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar) (2020)
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Chapman, J. (2020). The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar). Quaternary International, 560-561, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.014

My inspiration for an undergraduate dissertation (1972) on the origins of the Vinča group and, then, a PhD on the group as a whole (1976) came from a 1971 trip to the Belo Brdo tell. The PhD was transformed by new analyses to become the 1981 BAR publ... Read More about The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar).

Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe (2019)
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Gaydarska, B., Nebbia, M., & Chapman, J. (2020). Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(1), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000301

The Trypillia megasites of the Ukrainian forest steppe formed the largest fourth-millennium bc sites in Eurasia and possibly the world. Discovered in the 1960s, the megasites have so far resisted all attempts at an understanding of their social struc... Read More about Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe.

Production and function of Neolithic black-painted pottery from Schela Cladovei (Iron Gates, Romania) (2019)
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Spataro, M., Cubas, M., Craig, O. E., Chapman, J. C., Boroneanţ, A., & Bonsall, C. (2019). Production and function of Neolithic black-painted pottery from Schela Cladovei (Iron Gates, Romania). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(11), 6287-6304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00918-0

This paper presents for the first time the results of a combination of petrographic, geochemical and organic residue analyses of early Neolithic ceramics from the Iron Gates region of the Danube basin. Eleven early Neolithic potsherds from Schela Cla... Read More about Production and function of Neolithic black-painted pottery from Schela Cladovei (Iron Gates, Romania).

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019)
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Frantz, L. A., Haile, J., Lin, A. T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V. E., Daly, K. G., Battista, V. M., Price, M., Gron, K. J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.-M., Arbuckle, B., Bӑlӑşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., …Larson, G. (2019). Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(35), 17231-17238. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901169116

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the... Read More about Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe.

The Origins of Trypillia Megasites (2019)
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Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., & Nebbia, M. (2019). The Origins of Trypillia Megasites. Frontiers in digital humanities, 6, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2019.00010

The Trypillia megasites of Ukraine are the largest known settlements in 4th millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. With the largest reaching 320 ha in size, megasites pose a serious question about the origins of such massive agglomerations. Mos... Read More about The Origins of Trypillia Megasites.

What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine (2019)
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Albert, B., Innes, J., Krementskiy, K., Millard, A., Gaydarska, B., Nebbia, M., & Chapman, J. (2020). What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(1), 15-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00730-9

Fine-resolution sampling of pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and microcharcoal as well as sedimentological data in a 6-m sediment core were used to reconstruct both natural conditions and human impacts in the late fifth and early fourth millennia cal... Read More about What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine.

The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers? (2018)
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Nebbia, M., Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., & Chapman, J. (2018). The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?. World Archaeology, 50(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474133

In the last decade, we have witnessed a second methodological revolution in research into the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine – the largest sites in fourth-millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. However, these methodological advances have not be... Read More about The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?.

AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria (2018)
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Higham, T., Slavchev, V., Gaydarska, B., & Chapman, J. (2018). AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria. Radiocarbon, 60(02), 493-516. https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2018.9

The Varna I cemetery, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is one of the most remarkable sites in European prehistory, with the world’s earliest large-scale assemblage of gold artifacts. Modeling of the first series of 14 accelerator mass spectrometry (... Read More about AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria.

The Standard Model, the Maximalists and the Minimalists: New Interpretations of Trypillia Mega-Sites (2017)
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Chapman, J. (2017). The Standard Model, the Maximalists and the Minimalists: New Interpretations of Trypillia Mega-Sites. Journal of World Prehistory, 30(3), 221-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9106-7

The currently prevailing view of the Trypillia mega-sites of the fourth millennium BC has been the dominant model for over 40 years: they were extra-large settlement examples of the Childean ‘Neolithic package’ of permanent settlement, domesticated p... Read More about The Standard Model, the Maximalists and the Minimalists: New Interpretations of Trypillia Mega-Sites.

Climatic and human impact on the environment?: A question of scale (2017)
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Chapman, J. (2018). Climatic and human impact on the environment?: A question of scale. Quaternary International, 496, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.010

The title of this Special Issue of QI - ‘The Neolithic of Northern Greece and the Balkans. The environmental context of cultural transformation’ - frames the central issue of this paper – how were Neolithic and Chalcolithic landscapes in the Aegean,... Read More about Climatic and human impact on the environment?: A question of scale.

The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions (2017)
Book Chapter
Chapman, J., & Gaydarska, B. (2017). The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions. In D. H. Werra, & M. Woźny (Eds.), Between history and archaeology : papers in honour of Jacek Lech (267-277). Archaeopress

The second methodological revolution for Trypillia mega-sites is leading to an interpretative shift from the study of entire mega-sites to the study of their constituent Neighbourhoods and Quarters. We are now in the process of developing the theoret... Read More about The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions.

Nebelivka: Assembly Houses, ditches and social structure (2014)
Book Chapter
Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., & Hale, D. (in press). Nebelivka: Assembly Houses, ditches and social structure. In J. Müller, K. Rassmann, & M. Videiko (Eds.), Tripolye-Megasites and European Prehistory 4100-3400 BCE (117 - 132). EAA

The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda (2014)
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Chapman, J., Videiko, M. Y., Hale, D., Gaydarska, B., Burdo, N., Rassman, K., …Kruts, V. (2014). The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda. European Journal of Archaeology, 7(3), 369-406. https://doi.org/10.1179/1461957114y.0000000062

The first phase of the Trypillia mega-sites’ methodological revolution began in 1971 with aerial photography, magnetic prospection, and archaeological excavations of huge settlements of hundreds of hectares belonging to the Trypillia culture in Ukrai... Read More about The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda.

The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic. (2014)
Book Chapter
Chapman, J. (2015). The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic. In D. Hofmann, C. Fowler, & J. Harding (Eds.), Handbook of the European Neolithic (157 - 174). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.013.068

Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities lived in a mosaic of settings, providing a suite of complementary resources but dominated by upland regions. Four non-evolutionary phases can be distinguished in three millennia. Communities of ‘early far... Read More about The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic..