bump:D     As we were first learning about the ancient  Trypillians  during the early 20th century, the first evidence was also emerging that  the Trypillians who lived on Ukrainian soil were related to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.     Anatoly Kyfishyn made the first solid connection between the two cultures  when he deciphered pictograms on the so-called Stone Tomb in the south of Ukraine. These pictograms, chiseled into the walls of this unique artifact dating from 12,000 to 3,000 BC were samples of the early Sumerian writing. Ceramics created by the ancient Trypillians also bore Sumerian script, leaving no doubt that Sumerian writing originated with the Trypillyan civilization. The pictograms on the Stone Tomb clarify the origin of inscriptions made during the 12th to third millennium BC. So Sumerian writing, the first writing in the history of mankind, is a product of the development of a human civilization that for many thousands of years thrived in Europe and the Middle East.   As soon as similarities between the two forms of writing became known, previous contradictions were explained.     First, it became clear who brought a developed culture to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. Second, scholars managed to discover traces of mass migration from Trypillia (also known as Koukoutenya) to the Middle East. The migration to Mesopotamia was probably due to climatic changes and demographic factors such as overpopulation, as the ancient technology of land cultivation and cattle-breeding required favorable climatic conditions and huge expanses of land. Finally, it was determined that the large Sumerian cities, including Ur, Uruk and Djamjet-Nasra were reflection of the huge Trypillian agrocities. Pre-Sumerians brought city-states and social structures characteristic of Trypillians to Mesopotamia. This structure, void of social, ethnic and tribal antagonisms, explains the extraordinary stability of both Sumerian and Trypillyan societies over long periods of time.     Today, scholars are trying to explain the disappearance of the Trypillian civilization after 3,000 years. :confused:    http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/197/413     http://www.is.svitonline.com/matrix/Trypillya.htm     http://www.artukraine.com/trypillian/trypcult.htm     Under the quiet fields of a collective farm here lies a gigantic prehistoric settlement that challenges textbook assumptions about where civilization arose.     The 6,000-year-old settlement’s existence, discovered a century ago but still virtually unknown in the West, was built by Ukraine’s first farmers, the Trypillians, and excavated just this summer.     “There was nothing else like this in the world at that time,” said archeologist Olexi Kolesnikov     But the Ukrainian sites were apparently three to five times larger than the Mesopotamian proto-cities, Kolesnikov says. “They were by far the largest concentrated settlements in the world,” said archeologist David Anthony of Hartwick College in New York.   http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/03/local/me-19162           