3-D pit: Linear pottery culture long pit reconstructed through point-cloud analysis

Long-term research of the Linear Pottery Culture easternmost excavated site faced a number of obstacles in the interpretation of stratigraphy and objects shape. It happens mostly because of features of sedimentation and post-deposition processes in Ukraine that are quite different from Central European ones. Newly applied method of 3D-point cloud analysis performed in Kamyane-Zavallia, Ukraine, introduced the opportunity to define the living surface of Neolithic settlement and distinguish stratigraphic units in details using the geoinformational systems and geospatial database as a tools for the object analysis. This raises a number of questions concerning the previous interpretations of Linear Pottery Culture sites in Ukraine and the required accuracy of their archaeological excavation. Moreover, the analysis of stratigraphic units inside the long pit from Kamyane Zavallia had shown the complex and heterogeneous process of its refilling.