The first cremation traces in the Eneolithic period north of the Carpathian Mountains

• Authors: Wilk Stanisław , Szczepanek Anita
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The subject of this article is the fi rst eneolithic cremation burial in south-eastern Poland which was discovered on the cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynia culture at site 2 in Książnice, voiv. świętokrzyskie. Grave 14 was unearthed while exploring the western part of the necropolis in August 2012. The burial pit, 122 x 75 cm, was shaped like a rectangle with rounded corners, elongated along the north-south axis. In the southern part of the grave, at the depth of 40-45 cm, a concentration of charred human bones was found belonging to an individual at the age of maturus. The grave goods consist of two clay vessels (a pear-shaped cup with knobs on the larger bulge of its body, and a miniature pot with a gooseneck profi le and notched spout) and twelve fl int artefacts. The analyzed burial is another example of the intense cultural infl uences of the Hunyadihalom-Lažňany horizon to the late younger Danubian communities inhabiting Lesser Poland at the turn of the 5th and 4th millennia BC.

Keywords

EN

Copper Age; burial rites; cremation; Lublin-Volhynia culture; Carpathian Basin; Hunyadihalom-Lažňany horizon; Lesser Poland

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 353-371

Contributors

author

Wilk Stanisław

• Karkonosze Museum, Jana Matejki 28, 58-500 Jelenia Góra, Poland

author

Szczepanek Anita

• Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska st. 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland