this map is fascinating for a variety of reasons but the particular part of it that made me fall down a wikihole was the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture, which I was not familiar with. they seem pretty cool for a variety of reasons but what caught my eye is that they’d build a city, literally the largest city in the world they would build, and then they’d live there for about sixty years, and then they’d burn the fucker down. Why? Nobody knows. They’d move somewhere else and do the whole thing over, and then maybe move back and rebuild the first city identically on the same foundations. In one place they did that thirteen times.
this is some SCP type shit. what was chasing them. what happened in these cities that they needed burning down over and over
…what
right????? also i forgot my favorite part: we can’t get buildings to burn down this way. we’ve tried, nobody has actually managed to set a fire that leaves the same kind of rubble. it is not…traditional…fire
I’m having a hard time finding anything other than wiki articles on the stuff about the nontraditional fire, but this has been just a cursory search. There is a term for the region this practice was in, called the Burned House Horizon, and here’s a wiki article on that
no bodies were ever found in the rumble, pointing to this not being from an attack on any settlement. If anyone can find more from academic sources, that would be cool!
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