PhD candidate Sarah Martini co-authors two chapters

PhD candidate Sarah Joy Martini recently co-authored two chapters in From Ros to Prut: Transformations of Trypillia Settlements, a volume compiling interdisciplinary archaeological research on Chalcolithic mega-sites by an international team from the Ukraine, Moldova, and Germany. The chapters summarize the results of geoarchaeological research at the settlement of Maidanetske in central Ukraine. One chapter focuses specifically on reconstructing the processing of daub to build houses and their destruction by fire, while the second presents a
broader comparison of sediment from house, communal building, pit, street, the unbuilt center, and offsite profiles revealing the location of possible agricultural activities like animal penning and suggesting the communal building may originally have been placed upon a small artificial platform. Maidanetske is one of the most complex of the Trypillia sites, composed of ca. 3000 houses and dating to 3900–3650 BCE.