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'''Shypyntsi''' ({{lang-ua|Шипинці}}; {{lang-ro|Şipeniţ}}), a village in [[Ukraine]], is located within the ''[[Kitsman Raion|Kitsman]] [[Raion]]'' (district) of the ''[[Chernivtsi Oblast|Chernivtsi]] [[Oblast]]'' (province), about {{convert|530|km|mi|sp=us}} driving distance southwest of [[Kiev]], and about {{convert|30|km|mi|sp=us}} northwest from the provincial capital of Chernivtsi. Shypyntsi is about {{convert|48|km|mi|sp=us}} from the Ukrainian/Romanian border, about {{convert|64|km|mi|sp=us}} from the Ukrainian/[[Moldova]]n border, and about {{convert|80|km|mi|sp=us}} from the city of [[Suceava]], [[Romania]]. This village is located on the left bank of the [[Prut River]], amid rolling hills covered with farms and forests, in the region generally known as the [[Dniester Hills]].
To the north of the village are the ancient ruins of a [[Cucuteni-Trypillian culture]] settlement, dating back to the 5th Millennium to early 4th Millennium BC. Archaeological excavation began at this site in the late 19th century by a team of Ukrainians: J. Shombathy, R. Kindle, F. Volkov, O. Kandyba and Tatiana Sergeyevna Passek. Houses, earthenware, and ceramic shards were discovered, and in 1938 Kandyba published a collection of images from this site of beautifully decorated pottery.<ref name="Videiko">{{Cite web|last=Videiko |first=Mykhailo Yu. |title=Settlements of the Trypillian culture in Ukraine : a short guide |work=The Trypillian Civilization Society |publisher=The Trypillia-USA-Project |url=http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/se3.pdf |accessdate=15 December 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905100639/http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/se3.pdf |archivedate=September 5, 2008 }}</ref>
This settlement was part of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, which lasted from 5100 to 2750 BC, and which had some of the largest communities in the world at the time. The members of this society plowed their farms, raised livestock, hunted and fished, created textiles, and developed a beautiful and highly refined style of pottery with very intricate designs. Their settlements were built in oval or circular layouts, with concentric rows of houses interconnected to form rings around the center of the community, where often a sanctuary building would be found. They left behind a large number of clay figurines, many of which are regarded as Goddess fetishes. For over 2500 years their culture flourished with no evidence left behind that would indicate they experienced warfare.<ref>{{Citation | last = Tringham | first = Ruth | authorlink = Ruth Tringham| url = http://web.mac.com/chimeraspider/Ruth_Tringham/About_Ruth_Tringham.html | editor1-last = Bailey | editor1-first = Douglass W. | editor2-last = Whittle | editor2-first = Alasdair W.R. | editor3-last = Cummings | editor3-first = Vicki | title = (Un)settling the neolithic | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxbow | year = 2005 | chapter = Weaving house life and death into places: a blueprint for a hypermedia narrative | url = http://diva.berkeley.edu/projects/tringham/RET_DigPub/RET_Unsettling_Fire.pdf | isbn = 1-84217-179-8 | oclc = 62472378}}</ref> However, at the beginning of the [[Bronze Age]] their culture disappeared, the reasons for which are still debated, but possibly as a result of invaders coming from the Steppes to the east.<ref>{{Citation | last = Gimbutas | first = Marija Alseikaitė | author-link = | title = The civilization of the Goddess: the world of Old Europe | place = San Francisco | publisher = HarperSanFrancisco | year = 1991 | url = http://csp.org/chrestomathy/civilization_of.html | isbn = 0-06-250368-5 | oclc = 123210574}}</ref>
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