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Ce livre se doit d'etre une contribution a la recherchesur le Quebec en Allemagne et en Autriche ou l'epopee du Quebec ausein du Canada a ete sous-estimee. Encore maintenant, les etudesfranco-canadiennes font figure de discipline recente dans les pays delangue allemande. Ainsi les directeurs de publication de ce volumedésiraient-ils présenter une palette assez large des dernierestendances dans les differentes recherches historique, politique,litteraire et linguistique. Ils desirent presenter, par la-meme, a lacommunaute scientifique et au public interesse, les grandes lignes dela societe quebecoise, de ses identites culturelles et des enjeux quien resultent. Ces derniers ne peuvent-ils pas servir de modele aud'autres societes modernes, elles aussi vivant les tensions entreleurs caracteres distincts et une integration plus globalisante? ... Read more

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The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Cucuteni culture (from Romanian), Trypillian culture (from Ukrainian) or Tripolie culture (from Russian), is a late Neolithic archaeological culture that flourished between ca. 5500 BC and 2750 BC, from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dniester and Dnieper regions in modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, encompassing an area of more than 35,000 km2 (13,500 square miles). At its peak the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture built the largest Neolithic settlements in Europe, some of which had populations of up to 10,000 to 15,000 people. One of the most notable aspects of this culture was that every 60?80 years the inhabitants of a settlement would burn their entire village. The reason for the burning of the settlements is a subject of debate among scholars; many of the settlements were reconstructed several times on top of earlier settlements, preserving the shape and the orientation of the older buildings. One example, in Poduri, Romania, a total of thirteen habitation levels were constructed on top of each other at the same site. ... Read more