Geography
The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture is found in present-day Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. As of 2003, about 3000 sites of culture have been identified, ranging from small villages to "vast settlements consisting of hundreds of dwellings surrounded by multiple ditches".
The culture extended northeast from the Danube River Basin around the Iron Gates gorge to the Black Sea and Dnieper River, with its historical core around the middle to upper Dniester River. It encompassed the central Carpathian Mountains as well as the plains, steppe and forest steppe on either side of the range. During the Atlantic and Subboreal climatic periods in which the culture flourished Europe was at its warmest and moistest since the end of the last Ice Age, creating favorable conditions for agriculture in this region.
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