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The relics of a possible settlement were identified at Ramiszów, site 4, in the course of archaeological excavation made in advance of the construction of expressway S8 linking Wrocław and Warsaw. Excavation was made of SE fragment of a site designated by a scatter of archaeological finds observed during a surface survey, an area of less than 4000 m2. Regrettably, the area available for excavation was restricted by the scope of the road construction project and could not be extended. Despite the relatively large size of the site subjected to exploration only two archaeological features were identified on the western boundary of the trench, suggesting it was the eastern outlying area of a settlement extending more to the west of the excavation. Ceramic finds determined the dating of one of the pits as early medieval (no. 1) and assigned the other pit (no. 20) to the Neolithic age and to the Linear Pottery Culture. Archaeological finds from this second pit are the subject of the present analysis. The 2.24×1.26 m pit survived only in its bottom fragment, as shown by its depth of just 0.24 m, with a fill of dark grey compacted humus. The inventory consisted of 131 pottery fragments and 69 flints. Despite substantial fragmentation of the sherds it was possible to identify nine vessel forms (Fig. 8, 9). It is characteristic that not one of them was a globular vessel typical for the older phases of Linear Pottery Culture; next to a single barrel-shaped form (Fig. 9c) there were only pyriform vessels with a flattened body and marked rim (Fig. 8a-c, f, 9b). Also notable is ornamentation which does not feature the musical notation motif, so typical for the older phases of Linear Pottery Culture. The designs observed on all the decorated sherds (except for the barrel-shaped form) are of Šarka variety, its most representative forms shown in Fig. 8a-g. The ornamentation of the barrel-shaped vessel is also striking, a typical stroke-ornamented design similar to the earliest ornamentation seen on Stroked Pottery Culture ceramics encountered in Lower Silesia in settlements dated to the final stages of Linear Pottery Culture (Skoroszowice, Strachów). All ceramic attributes named here help in dating the pit no. 2, and the settlement to which presumably it belonged, to the final stage of the Linear Pottery Culture, to be more precise - its youngest stadium, phase Šarka, transitional to the Stroked Pottery Culture. The flint inventory is of two varieties: Baltic moraine flint (89.8%) and Jurassic flint from the region of Kraków (10.2%). The series of 59 flints included cores, mostly of splintered piece type, flakes, blades and retouched tools (5 specimens). The pit is interpreted as a waste pit based on the presence of refittings of production waste (Fig. 15 and 16) from the working of cores by its edge. The site under discussion of truly exceptional relevance for the study of the extent of Linear Pottery Culture settlement bordering on the Odra River in Lower Silesia. This is because it is the first evidence, so well-documented by diagnostic ceramic material, of penetration of the areas on the right bank of the Odra, after the people of the said culture had forded the great river in the region where its joined by its tributaries the Oława, the Ślęza and the Bystrzyca. The source area of this group would have been the centre of dense settlement formed between the Oława and the Bystrzyca, with the river Ślęza as its axis. Ties with this region are indicted by some of the technological attributes of the pottery (copious tempering with mica or with coarse quartzite) and finds of Jurassic flint from the region of Kraków, which in settlements of this centre of settlement in southern Silesia is definitely the dominant variety, imported from western Lesser Poland.
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The article evaluates the lithic industry from the site of Košice-Galgovec within the Eastern Linear Pottery Culture and in comparison with finds from Košice-Červený rak and Čečejovce. The finds were obtained during investment investigations in 1997 – 2000 along the route of the Myslavský stream where the settlement of the oldest phases of the Neolithic – the protolinear phase (Košice-Červený rak), Tiszadob group (Galgovec I – III), Bükk culture on both sites – was concentrated. The settlement by the Tiszadob group is found on the site of Galgovec III, feature 2/97, dated to: 6310 ± 40 BP, calibrated 5300 – 5210 BC and 6261 ± 35 BP, calibrated 5170 – 5140 BC. 654 chipped stone artefacts of the Tiszadob group were analysed as well as 28 examples of rough industry and 204 artefacts from the mixed horizon of the Tiszadob group and the early phase of the Bükk culture (feature 8/2000). Compared to older periods, obsidian was used more frequently in the Tiszadob group. The changes in the typological-technological content of the inventories probably reflect the various functions of the settlements.
Studia Historica Nitriensia
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2014
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vol. 18
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issue 2
213 – 249
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Following paper is focused on burials and burial customs of the Linear Pottery culture and Želiezovce group in the southwestern Slovakia. The region of Moravia, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Transdanubia and part of Germany came into the center of interest as well. Collected units are critically analyzed and followed by evaluation of burial customs of the Linear Pottery culture and Želiezovce group. The evaluation comprehensively summarizes the results of the analysis in the Middle Danube region. These outputs are compared with the results of previous researches and finally interpreted.
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The presented study studies the region of former Gemer represented by the Rimavská kotlina basin as a distinct geomorphological unit by means of exploitation of geospatial information (GIS) and their statistical evaluation. As a result, a model of settlement structures in selected prehistoric sequences (Neolithic and Eneolithic in our case) is presented. With regard to the state of research of prehistory, it evaluates only the sequences which are represented in the Rimavská kotlina basin by a certain number of exactly/relatively exactly localizable components, i. e. the Middle Neolithic (Linear Pottery culture and the Bükk culture), Middle, possibly also Late Eneolithic (Baden culture).
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The subject of this paper is focused on the evaluation of the Neolithic settlement of a poly-cultural site in Bajč-Vlkanovo (dist. Komárno), processed within the earlier research on the site “Tehelňa“(also as Tehelňa “S“ or “Göböljárás“). Archaeological research excavation on this endangered and devastated site was carried out in 1959–1960, 1981 and 1982– 1983 by the Institute of Archaeology of SAS. During the excavation of rescue character in particular, larger amount of finds, especially pottery was collected from the pit backfills and cultural layer. 38 settlement pits are dated to the Neolithic period (Later linear pottery, Želiezovce group). Quantitative analysis of the Neolithic pottery was based on the model of descriptive database created on the numeric code used in the processing of other early Neolithic sites in Slovakia (e. g. Štúrovo, Bajč-Medzi kanálmi, Hurbanovo-Veľký Šárad).
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The Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava has made systematic archaeological prospecting efforts for several years in the surroundings of Studénka that led to identification of two micro-regions of Neolithic settlement, territorially partly overlapped. The older one consists of six dwelling places and belongs to the Linear Pottery culture. The younger settlement around Studénka corresponds to the Lengyel culture and it was found at seven localities so far. The micro-region of the Linear Pottery culture is situated at the left bank of the Odra Gate corridor, right on the transport road of the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic silicites and represents on this route the nearest settlements from the source area in the direction to central Moravia. Although the micro-region is located in the area of natural occurrences of silicites from glacial sediments (also denominated erratic silicites or erratic ‘flints’), the presence of Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic silicites among raw materials of lithic chipped artefacts is the most numerous comparing similar collections from the Czech Lands and Polish Silesia. Temporary nature of the micro-region settlement limited to a single phase of the Linear Pottery culture IIb and evidence for a short duration of the dwelling places indicate purposefulness of founding and duration of the dwelling places. The authors believe the purpose of their arising was not enlarging of the agricultural area but the mediation services in the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic silicites transport. The starting point for this raw material transport could be contemporary another Neolithic micro-region represented by the settlement near Spytkowice at the mouth of the river Skawa to Wisła in the recent Polish territory. This Spytkowice micro-region is unusually located on the opposite bank of the Wisła. The supposed route of the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic silicites to Moravia is only a working hypothesis naturally.
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Burials and burial customs themselves are among the best sources of information about the “gender” structure of the surveyed society. The characteristics of “gender” in the Linear Pottery culture (LPC) are generally most often associated with everyday activities, in which both men and women played an irreplaceable role. However, the prevalent opinion in the scientific literature is that women and children had a lower social status than men, due to the smaller amount of grave goods, moreover “gender”-atypical, in case of women and their more frequent burial within settlements. The aim of the paper is to verify this hypothesis and a subsequent attempt to trace the potential “gender” specificity of the female grave inventory on selected sites of LPC using statistical analysis.
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