Vir Bimaris. Od kujawskiego matecznika do stepów nadczarnomorskich. Studia z dziejów międzymorza bałtycko-pontyjskiego ofiarowane Profesorowi Aleksandrowi Kośko (red.) M. Szmyt, P. Chachlikowski, J. Czebreszuk, M. Ignaczak, P. Makarowicz, Poznań, 2019
The study was carried out using materials of the Funnel Beaker culture’s (FBC) eastern group from... more The study was carried out using materials of the Funnel Beaker culture’s (FBC) eastern group from its late phases (Figs. 1 & 2). The sample selected for the study comprised 55 flint assemblages from 50 archaeological sites (Tabs. 1 & 2). The sites concentrated in several settlement agglomerations: north-western Kujawy, south-eastern Kujawy, Gostynin Lakeland, Chełmno Land, Wielkopolska and central Poland. A few assemblages come from the Dobrzyń Land and Gdańsk Pomerania. The total number of flint specimens studied was 15,000. The article discusses only one aspect of flint working, namely the incidence of non-local raw materials (not occurring naturally within the reach of the FBC
eastern group). The presence of various flint types, their frequency and share in the assemblages may be considered markers of ties with remote cultural centres (FBC southeastern group and Tripolye culture).
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Strzyżów, south-eastern Poland. The dagger was customized as a pendant and deposited in an inhumation burial that contained
the remains of an adult male and over ten other grave offerings dating to the 2nd quarter of the 4th millennium BC.
This paper presents the results of archaeological and metallographic examinations of the dagger from Strzyżów and relates
them to a wider cultural context of the region. The results of our study show that the dagger has no signs of use-wear, and
furthermore indicate that the metal used for its production is fahlore copper which could have been sourced from the Slovak
Ore Mountains. The two other Cucuteni-Vădastra type daggers that were discovered in the vicinity of Strzyżów mark
the Western Volhynian Upland as a distinct cluster of the Cucuteni-Vădastra dagger industry in Europe. Furthermore, the
daggers from Poland evidence a close relationship between the Lublin-Volhynian culture and the Cucuteni-Tripillia complex
and attest to the intercultural landscape of the Eastern Carpathians region during the Eneolithic.
Małecka-Kukawka J., Kukawka S. and Adamczak K. 2022. New insights into the use of "imported" flint raw materials in the younger phases of the Funnel Beaker culture in the Starogard Lake District. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 74/1, 187-204.
has been proposed on many occasions but only limited direct evidence has been secured to test this functional association. This study presents the results of molecular and isotopic analysis of preserved organic residues obtained
from 115 oval bowls from 25 archaeological sites representing a wide range of environmental settings. Our findings confirm that the oval bowls of the circum-Baltic were used primarily for burning fats and oils, predominantly for the purposes of illumination. The fats derive from the tissues of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial organisms. Bulk isotope data of charred surface deposits show a consistently different pattern of use when oval bowls are compared to other pottery vessels within the same assemblage. It is suggested that hunter-gatherer-fishers around the 55th parallel commonly deployed material culture for artificial light production but the evidence is restricted to times and places where more durable technologies were employed, including the circum-Baltic.
Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture from the territory that is today Poland. In this paper we contribute to this debate by
closely examining the geochemical characteristics (using INAA, ICP-MS, SEM-EDS, γ-ray spectrometry and OM)
of six ceramic vessels collected from the archaeological site in Kałdus, northern Poland. Particular emphasis is
placed on the need to clarify whether the bones in the pottery from Kałdus were deliberately added or incidentally
incorporated in a clay paste. Through exploring the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic composition
of ceramics, we also investigate whether different pastes were used contemporarily by potters from
Kałdus for different types of wares during the mid-4th millennium BC.
The results has allowed us to hypothesise a local provenance of the bone-tempered vase from Kałdus.
Furthermore, the TRB potters’ choices to add crushed and burned bones to a clay paste seemed to lack a
technological basis. Rather, it appears that a temper made of bones had strong symbolic associations and was
most likely ritualised in the working memory of the TRB potters from Kałdus, or even the entire TRB East Group
milieu.
eastern group). The presence of various flint types, their frequency and share in the assemblages may be considered markers of ties with remote cultural centres (FBC southeastern group and Tripolye culture).
Strzyżów, south-eastern Poland. The dagger was customized as a pendant and deposited in an inhumation burial that contained
the remains of an adult male and over ten other grave offerings dating to the 2nd quarter of the 4th millennium BC.
This paper presents the results of archaeological and metallographic examinations of the dagger from Strzyżów and relates
them to a wider cultural context of the region. The results of our study show that the dagger has no signs of use-wear, and
furthermore indicate that the metal used for its production is fahlore copper which could have been sourced from the Slovak
Ore Mountains. The two other Cucuteni-Vădastra type daggers that were discovered in the vicinity of Strzyżów mark
the Western Volhynian Upland as a distinct cluster of the Cucuteni-Vădastra dagger industry in Europe. Furthermore, the
daggers from Poland evidence a close relationship between the Lublin-Volhynian culture and the Cucuteni-Tripillia complex
and attest to the intercultural landscape of the Eastern Carpathians region during the Eneolithic.
Małecka-Kukawka J., Kukawka S. and Adamczak K. 2022. New insights into the use of "imported" flint raw materials in the younger phases of the Funnel Beaker culture in the Starogard Lake District. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 74/1, 187-204.
has been proposed on many occasions but only limited direct evidence has been secured to test this functional association. This study presents the results of molecular and isotopic analysis of preserved organic residues obtained
from 115 oval bowls from 25 archaeological sites representing a wide range of environmental settings. Our findings confirm that the oval bowls of the circum-Baltic were used primarily for burning fats and oils, predominantly for the purposes of illumination. The fats derive from the tissues of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial organisms. Bulk isotope data of charred surface deposits show a consistently different pattern of use when oval bowls are compared to other pottery vessels within the same assemblage. It is suggested that hunter-gatherer-fishers around the 55th parallel commonly deployed material culture for artificial light production but the evidence is restricted to times and places where more durable technologies were employed, including the circum-Baltic.
Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture from the territory that is today Poland. In this paper we contribute to this debate by
closely examining the geochemical characteristics (using INAA, ICP-MS, SEM-EDS, γ-ray spectrometry and OM)
of six ceramic vessels collected from the archaeological site in Kałdus, northern Poland. Particular emphasis is
placed on the need to clarify whether the bones in the pottery from Kałdus were deliberately added or incidentally
incorporated in a clay paste. Through exploring the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic composition
of ceramics, we also investigate whether different pastes were used contemporarily by potters from
Kałdus for different types of wares during the mid-4th millennium BC.
The results has allowed us to hypothesise a local provenance of the bone-tempered vase from Kałdus.
Furthermore, the TRB potters’ choices to add crushed and burned bones to a clay paste seemed to lack a
technological basis. Rather, it appears that a temper made of bones had strong symbolic associations and was
most likely ritualised in the working memory of the TRB potters from Kałdus, or even the entire TRB East Group
milieu.
eastern group). The presence of various flint types, their frequency and share in the assemblages may be considered markers of ties with remote cultural centres (FBC southeastern group and Tripolye culture).