The presented article is a contribution to the topic of amber circulation in Europe during the Bronze Age. Its main goal is to explain, based on archival and new data obtained in the course of the latest research, the issue of the origin and routes of influx of amber to the Central Balkans in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC . The discussion focuses on a group of amber finds from the contemporary Bosnian-Serbian borderland. The provenance analyses carried out so far prove that the amber found there is of Baltic origin. Observations from the typological overview of amber artefacts, as well as bronze and ceramic finds cooccurring with them, have been compared with the results of recent analyses of the origin of copper and tin used in the production of bronze. Based on these observations, it can be concluded that amber reached the Central Balkans via the Tumulus Culture communities from Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin along the exchange routes of raw metals and bronze products.
In the autumn of 2016 a geomagnetic survey was conducted in Skołoszów, site. 7, Dist Jarosław. The magnetic prospection took place on a low hill spanning 2.12 ha in total. Distribution of the anomalies, as visible on a map depicting obtained data, reflects numerous structures related to human activity in the area during the prehistory and historic times. Among them are two features interpreted as residues of funerary rituals taking place at the site. One of them pertains to Middle Neolithic earthen long barrow, whereas the second by its shape resembles Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age tumuli. Apart from the latter, one can discern numerous anomalies potentially related to pits and ditches. Interpretation of the geophysical imagery was based upon the results of excavations conducted in 2010 in the nearby section of Skołoszów, site 7. In the process, funeral structures in the types of earthen long barrow and a presumable tumulus were recorded. Thus, it is possible to confront observations inferred from the results of non-invasive, magnetometric survey, with data obtained by means of more direct exploratory methods. Besides the prehistoric record, our investigation resulted in reconstruction of the trenches most probably dating to the First World War.
This article evaluates the potential of magnetometry to establish the internal structure of three mounds in the barrow cemetery of Bukivna in the Upper Dniester River Basin in Ukraine.We also evaluate the effects of geomorphological processes on the magnetometric results. The three-stage research method we applied comprises the preparation of a digital elevation model of the mounds, conducting geomagnetic surveys and, finally, targeted excavations, the latter enabling the verification of previously detected magnetic anomalies. In effect our studies show exceptionally complex geophysical anomalies, difficult to interpret with any certainty. In the peculiar case of the barrows 6 and 7 in group I, partly connected by an earthen mantle, the overlapping magnetic fields did not allow the two mounds to be distinguished from each other; it was possible to achieve only through subsequent excavations. In both barrows, a series of ritual and sepulchral structures were discovered that provided clear magnetic signals. The arrangement of the anomalies in the mound 1, group II, potentially reflects various aspects of the barrow’s structure and its state of preservation, beginning with postdepositional processes related to erosion or to the run-off of material down the slope, and ending with the mound’s stratigraphy, formed over the course of two phases. In turn, in the case of mounds 6 and 7, it can be assumed that the effects of these processes have been somewhat “suppressed” in the magnetometric image, due to the strong impact of the burnt wooden structures located underneath the features
Upowszechnienie się w archeologii metod nieinwazyjnych umożliwiło w znacznie większej skali badania obszarów leśnych. W badaniach cmentarzysk kurhanowych położonych na Wale Krotoszyńskim (Las Krotoszyn), w celu rozpoznania morfometrycznego cmentarzyska kurhanowego i identyfikacji kopców, które weryfikowano dodatkowo w terenie, zastosowano metody lotniczego skaningu laserowego do wykonania numerycznego modelu terenu. Wykonanie prospekcji magnetometrycznej, na podstawie oceny zróżnicowania anomalii magnetycznych, dało możliwość uchwycenia złożonej struktury wewnętrznej badanych kurhanów. Wyniki magnetometrii weryfikowane były poprzez odwierty geologiczne w miejscach występowania anomalii magnetycznych w obrębie kurhanu, a pobrany z nich materiał poddano badaniom litologicznym oraz analizie podatności magnetycznej.
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The spread of non-invasive methods in archaeology made it possible to study forest areas. In the study of barrow cemeteries located on the Krotoszyn Ridge (Krotoszyn Forest), aerial laser scanning methods were used to implement a numerical terrain model for morphometric recognition and identification of burial mounds, which were additionally verified in the field. Magnetometric prospection made it possible to study the complex internal structure of the studied mounds on the basis of the diversity of magnetic anomalies. The verification of the geomagnetic surveys was based on geological drillings in the places with the largest magnetic anomalies within the burial mounds; the material collected from them was subjected to lithological tests and analysis of magnetic susceptibility.
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