Dobrovody

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Dobrovody

| native_name = Доброводи

| native_name_lang = uk

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = DobrovodyUman8.JPG

| pushpin_map = Ukraine Cherkasy Oblast#Ukraine

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Dobrovody

| mapframe =

| mapframe-coordinates = {{Coord|48|45|58|N|30|23|23|E}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Ukraine

| subdivision_type1 = Oblast

| subdivision_name1 = Cherkasy Oblast

| subdivision_type2 = Raion

| subdivision_name2 = Uman Raion

| subdivision_type3 = Hromada

| subdivision_name3 = Dmytrushky rural hromada

| elevation_m = 181

| population_total = 975

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 20335

}}

Dobrovody ({{langx|uk|Доброводи}}) is a village located within the Uman Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), Ukraine.

Archaeological site

Dobrovody is a 4th millennium BC site of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture. The newest research (2014) indicates that Dobrovody could have contained up to 16,200 citizens,{{cite book|author1=Johannes Müller|author2=Knut Rassmann|author3=Mykhailo Videiko|title=Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory: 4100-3400 BCE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3twCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT347|date=22 January 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-24791-3|pages=347–}} and was one of the largest cities in the world in its day. The total area is about 2.5 km2. Using aerial photography, a fortified city with blocks and streets can be seen. The excavated dwellings had a standard size of 12 × 5 m with a typical interior for the buildings of the Tomaszów group: a stove, a long bench-podium under the wall, a round altar, pithos. At the angle of one of the inhabitants found a ritual burial of a bull's skull. The main category of finds are fragments of pottery collected on the surface and from excavations. Dominated by tableware painted with dark brown paint on orange engobe. A fragment of a housing model with a stove similar to the well-known Sushkiv housing model was found.{{Cite web |date=2010-06-29 |title=Трипольская культура: почему это так круто - Главное™ |url=http://glavnoe.ua/articles/a2259/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629043346/http://glavnoe.ua/articles/a2259/ |archive-date=29 June 2010 |url-status=dead}}

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