ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the Assembly Houses of the mega-sites. At Nebelivka, the perimeter of the site covers a linear distance of c. 5.9 km, of which seventy-three per cent was available for geophysical investigation. The resultant interpretation of the Nebelivka mega-structure requires a much more subtle model of site depositional practices than one has so far managed to create. It considers the location of assembly houses to be of critical importance for the spatial division of the outer and inner house circuits and inner radial streets into the second level of spatial order the Quarters'. The missing perimeter ditch and the absent Assembly Houses at Taljanky seem to us to be two sides of the same coin an alternative social structure in which different ways of integrating a large population were used in contrast to those at Nebelivka and Maidanetske. The results of the excavation of the Nebelivka mega-structure have interesting implications for our understanding of the question of Trypillia urbanism.
