The economic foundations of the Bronze and early Iron Age in the Łęczna-Włodawa Lake District in the light of archaeological and palynological sources

• Authors: Halina Taras , Krystyna Bałaga

Title variants

PL

Podstawy gospodarcze w epoce brązu i wczesnej epoce żelaza na Pojezierzu Łęczyńsko-Włodawskim w świetle źródeł archeologicznych i palinologicznych

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the Łęczna-Włodawa Lake District drawing on archaeological and palynological data sources and presents a model of economic activity in the Bronze and early Iron Age. The economy of the early Bronze Age was predominantly based on animal husbandry with hunter-gatherer elements, while the later Bronze Age witnessed a change in balance between crop cultivation and animal husbandry, with an increase in the former

Keywords

EN

economy; subsistence; settlement; Bronze Age; early Iron Age; archaeological sources; natural resources

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 179–200

Contributors

author

Halina Taras

• Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, M. Curie-Skłodowska sq. 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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Krystyna Bałaga

• Deparment of Geoecology and Palaeogeography, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Kraśnicka av. 2cd, 20-718 Lublin, Poland