Addressing the issue of the Early Neolithic pottery exchange through a combined petrographic and geochemical approach: a case study on LBK ware from Dzielnica (Upper Silesia, southern Poland)

Borowski, Michał; Golitko, Mark; Furmanek, Mirosław; Nowak, Marek; Szczepara, Norbert

doi:10.1007/s12520-020-01244-6

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“…It remains an open question, however, whether these were lumps of raw graphite or rather graphite-coated vessels themselves that were transported. The results of an extensive archaeometric study on the late LBK ceramic assemblage from the Dzielnica site indicate that at least one of the graphite-coated vessels was probably produced elsewhere, as evidenced by its assignment to the non-local fabric group (Borowski et al 2021). The Dzielnica site has also provided several graphite-tempered pottery fragments.…”

Section: Graphite-coated Pottery From Więckowice In Territorial and Chronological Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Dzielnica site has also provided several graphite-tempered pottery fragments. The presence of these coarse-ware sherds, hitherto unrecognised at any other LBK site in Poland, is assumed to have resulted from the occasional trans-Sudetic importation of vessels from northern Moravia (Borowski 2018;Borowski et al 2021). Graphite finds associated with the LBK are much more numerous in the areas of graphite deposits, mainly in Moravia and southern Bavaria (Tichý 1961;Pechtl and Eibl 2011;Hložek 2012).…”

Section: Graphite-coated Pottery From Więckowice In Territorial and Chronological Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These ubiquitous raw materials were eagerly used by LBK potters in Central Europe (e.g. Rauba-Bukowska 2019, 13; Borowski et al 2021). The individual sand-sized mineral inclusions could have been present as either intrinsic components of the clay raw material or deliberately added during ceramic paste preparation.…”

Section: Archaeometric Analysis Of Graphite-coated Potterymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland: Więckowice, site 4, Kraków district

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2021

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In the years 2006-2011, at the site Więckowice 4, rescue excavations were carried out in the eastern part of anextensive (over 15 ha) multicultural zone. The most numerous are the remains of the LBK settlement from the “music note” phase. The south-eastern part of the settlement was explored, discovering lines of building pits and post holes belonging to 3-4 longhouses. A particularly unique discovery was a fragment of a LBK vessel with powdered graphite preserved on the outer surface. In addition to the LBK ornament of engraved lines, it is decorated in a manner referring to the ornamentation of the Eastern Linear circle (Tiszadob-Kapušany group). The presence of graphite on the vessel wall has been confirmed by the results of SEM-EDS analyses. This is the first such find in Lesser Poland. To comprehensively address the cultural significance of this find we provide an upto-date overview of graphite usage in a wide range of LBK contexts.

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Section: Graphite-coated Pottery From Więckowice In Territorial and Chronological Contextmentioning

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Section: Graphite-coated Pottery From Więckowice In Territorial and Chronological Contextmentioning

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The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland: Więckowice, site 4, Kraków district

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Corded Ware and Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from Southeast Lithuania: Technological Insights through Geochemical and Mineralogical Approaches

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A geochemical and mineralogical approach was used to analyze 3rd millennium BCE pottery from Southeast Lithuania that is attributed to the foreign Corded Ware Culture and local hunter-gatherers. SEM-EDS, XRF, XRD, and FTIR were used to study the peculiarities of the pottery and to develop hypotheses about the raw material and technology choices present. The amounts of ten major elements in the bulk and clay matrix compositions (XRF, SEM-EDS) and eleven trace analytes in the bulk compositions (XRF) were compared with the Clarke values and tested to highlight the significance (Mann–Whitney U and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Tests) of the differences in the elemental quantities between the clay matrix and bulk compositions, and between the lighter and darker clay matrixes. These also revealed the advantage of Ward’s clustering method using the City-block distance of bulk compositions as a tool for inter-correlating ceramics in attributing them to specific communities and locations. The XRD, FTIR, and SEM-EDS mineralogical analyses indicated a predominance of iron-rich illite clay, quartz, and alkali feldspar, in addition to very low to medium firing temperatures. All of the pottery samples consisted of hydromicaceous clay from local Quaternary glacial sediments that contain weathered granitoid fragments.

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Addressing the issue of the Early Neolithic pottery exchange through a combined petrographic and geochemical approach: a case study on LBK ware from Dzielnica (Upper Silesia, southern Poland)

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The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland: Więckowice, site 4, Kraków district

The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland: Więckowice, site 4, Kraków district

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Corded Ware and Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from Southeast Lithuania: Technological Insights through Geochemical and Mineralogical Approaches

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