Northern shore of the Black Sea (present-day Moldova and Ukraine). Villages and small towns were founded and flourish, discovered in the 1970s AD. These are Taljanky, Maidanetske, and Nebelivka, and are called “mega-sites” due to their truly enormous size for the time. These black soils (chernozem) are legendary for their fertility. They are therefore agricultural communities. Each settlement covers approximately 300 hectares. They contain no traces of central administration or communal storage areas. They have an oval layout with concentric settlements and a hollow center. All pulp and no stone. There are a thousand or more houses per mega-site, measuring 5m by 10m, made of reeds, clay, mud, and stone, and with an adjoining vegetable garden. They have up to 10,000 inhabitants per mega-site, but they are seasonal: they are only inhabited for part of the year. It is therefore still a question of agriculture for fun: not a serious and structured system for subsistence throughout the year, but rather of vegetable gardens and experiments in complete freedom.
