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Re:Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling c... by xdennis on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:00AM (#40367069)
As a Romanian, the renaming of the culture really bugs me. We discovered it first, in a village called Cucuteni, so we called it Cucuteni culture. The Russian imperialists discovered it afterwards in Ukraine and called it Tripolie culture. After independence the Ukrainians renamed it after the proper name of their village: Trypillia.

But it doesn't change the fact that it was first discovered in Cucuteni.

Re:Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling c... by digging on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:00AM (#40367840)
Most English publications refer to it as the "Cucuteni–Trypillia culture", apparently in reference to the fact that two distinct discoveries were made in different locations and later recognized as belonging to the same culture. Seems TFA is an outlier in preferring only the latter name. Of course, neither name accurately describes the actual neolithic culture at all.

(Wikipedia elides the ~5-10 year gap between publication of Cucuteni and publication of Trypillia... very possible the latter discovery was just Ukranian Vincenc Chvojka trying to "get in on the action" after hearing about Cucuteni.)