Semiotic analysis of Trypillia-Cucuteni sign systems

Prof. Dr. Yaroslav Melnyk is a Ukrainian philologist, linguist, Slavic scholar, doctor of philology, in November 2014 he received the title of professor at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Department of General and German Linguistics. He was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk. Educated as an artist-designer, he studied at the Polytechnic in Kharkiv as well as at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. In 1986 graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Ivano-Frankivsk-whom the pedagogical institute. Melnyk Yaroslav is the author of more than 200 publications (including more than 5 monographs, 30 textbooks, and manuals) on the problems of linguistics, linguistic philosophy, semiotics, culturology. His doctoral dissertation is devoted to modern problems of linguistics, micro-and macrosystem levels in language, linguoculturology, semiology, linguoanthropological philosophy, neo-rhetoric studies.

Taras Tkachuk, Ph.D. is the head of the department of archaeology of the National Reserve “Ancient Halych”, Ukraine. In 1985 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. From 1985 to 1992 he worked at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a senior laboratory assistant. From 1992 to 1995 he studied at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, the Fulbright Scholarship at Stanford, the University of Arizona, and others. Taras Tkachuk is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists and author of over 100 articles. His research interests include the neo-Eneolithic archaeology of South-Western Europe, semiotics, philosophy, and methodology of science.

Oleksandr Melnyk, MSc. received his master's degree in renewable energy systems engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. In his thesis, he investigated the energy flexibility potentials based on building information modeling. For this work, he received the “Energietechnik-Preis 2020” award from the Austrian Association of Electrical Engineers - OVE. In 2017, at China, Three Gorges University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning) Oleksandr worked on the development of energy-efficient construction concepts in a subtropical Asian climate with a specific focus on improved quality control of innovative building renovation projects. Apart from renewable energy systems and engineering, his interests include the methodology of science, social sciences, history of art, and philosophy. This book is his second Ukrainian-English translation in the field of semiotics.