A complex view of the prehistory in southern Jordan emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of fieldwork at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of finds from the previous season were underway. Human communities living here in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natural erosion processes and periodical climate change, is also taken into consideration while interpreting the explored relics.

Brzeska-Zastawna A. 2020. Flint axes from the Funnel Beaker and Funnel Beaker-Baden settlement phases at site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 72/1, 197-211. Excavations at site 1 in Książnice Wielkie were conducted between 1921 and 1924 by Józef Żurowski. It is one of the most important sites of the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) in western Lesser Poland (Zastawny and Brzeska-Zastawna 2020). The materials of the FBC with Baden elements were published by Barbara Burchard and AnnaEker, and graves of the Corded Ware culture were published by Jan Machnik (Burchard and Eker 1964;Machnik 1964). This article is focused on the issues related to flint axes discovered in the context of FBC and Funnel Beaker-Baden assemblages. So far they have not been the subject of detailed elaboration.

In 1964, Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district. These materials were obtained by Józef Żurowski, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924. He has never published the results of research, and the study by B. Burchard and A. Eker is so far the only comprehensive one of the Funnel Beaker culture settlement there. Since then, this site has not been the subject of detailed research and analysis. The huge, as yet untapped, research potential of this site has become the reason for a scientific return to Książnice Wielkie. After almost 100 years since J. Żurowski's fieldwork, the Archaeological Museum in Kraków resumed research. In 2017, magnetic prospecting was carried out, and since 2018, rescue excavations have been directed. Stone artefacts are also being studied, and radiocarbon analyses of materials obtained in the 1920s are being conducted.