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Tripolye|trɪˈpɒljə| Also Tripolje. The name of a village near Kiev in Russia, used attrib. to denote a neolithic culture typified by remains found there, which flourished in the western Ukraine and in eastern Romania during the late fourth and third millennia b.c.
1913[see ploshchadka]. 1935Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXV. 113 In successful search for painted pottery of the Tripolye type. 1937Discovery Jan. 27/1 The Tripolje culture, so called from the site in Southern Russia on which it was first found, has as its most characteristic feature painted pottery. 1957G. Clark Archæol. & Society (ed. 3) vi. 190 Significant differences have been noted between the composition of animal remains from sites of the Tripolje culture marked by painted and grooved pottery and from those of the neighbouring Ousatovo culture. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 237/2 Tripolye culture came to an end with the expansion westwards of steppe cultures of kurgan or Single-Grave type. |