This small ceramic model was made in the 4th millennium BC in a society archaeologists call the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. Which covered parts of modern Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine between about 5000 BC and 3000 BC, which was the Chalcolithic era of European prehistory. Some researchers suggest this design is related to the annual procession of the sun - the yearly cycle being vitally important for an agricultural society dependent on grain – so perhaps the motif represented the proper order