Olkhovets

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Olkhovets is the site of an ancient mega-settlement dating to 2750 B.C. belonging to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, located in present day Ukraine. The settlement was for the time very large, covering an area of 180 hectares. This proto-city are just one of 2440 Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements discovered so far in Moldova and Ukraine. 194 (8%) of these settlements had an area of more than 10 hectares between 5000 - 2700 B.C. and more than 29 settlements had an area in the range 100 - 300 - 450 Hectares.{{cite book| url=http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf38/38_29.pdf | work=Mykhailo Videiko Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, UA | title=The 'disappearance' of Trypillia culture | page=374 | date=2011}}{{cite book| url=http://www.trypillia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104:videiko-m-yu-trypillia-culture-proto-cities-after-40-years-of-investigations&catid=54:archaeology&Itemid=66 | work=Mykhailo Videiko Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, UA | title=VIDEIKO M. YU. TRYPILLIA CULTURE PROTO-CITIES: AFTER 40 YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS | date=2011}}