ploshchadkan.

1913 E. H. Minns Scythians & Greeks vii. 134 The first finds were made about the village of Tripolje on the Dnêpr forty miles below Kiev, whence this is called the Tripolje culture. The remains consist of so-called ‘areas’ (ploshchádka).

1923 Nature 26 May 726/1 The painted pottery comes either from large rectangular structures of wattle and daub called ploshchadky or from huts partly hollowed out in the earth.

1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods iii. 56 The clay figures..are found in Russia chiefly on the site of the curious buildings or platforms known as ‘ploshchadki’, which seem to have had a religious object.

1940 C. F. C. Hawkes Prehist. Found. Europe vi. 236 The Kiev region, where the peasants..made also..rectangular structures (‘ploshchadki’) whose remains are always found burnt, without as yet any agreed explanation.

1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) viii. 137 The houses of later phases are represented by the celebrated ploščadki, areas of baked clay resulting from the burning and collapse of walls and floors.