Luka-Vrublevetskaia

a village on the left bank of the Dnestr River, 22 km southeast of the city of Kamenets-Podol’-skii, in the Ukrainian SSR, near which flint Paleolithic implements and the remains of a settlement dating from the fourth millennium B.C. and belonging to the early stage of the Tripol’e culture have been uncovered. Excavations of the settlement between 1946 and 1950 revealed seven semisubterranean dwellings. One of them, measuring 45 m by 3-5 m, belonged to a large clan family. The excavations yielded stone and bone implements, ceramic vessels, ornaments, and terra-cotta statuettes of people and animals. The population engaged in land cultivation and began using cattle for pulling loads. The social system was primitive communal, with some characteristics of a patriarchal order. The cult of fertility was widespread. A settlement of the Cherniakhov culture was also found at the site.