Is it a long or short-duration phenomenon? Existence of Funnel Beaker Culture Societies in the Rzeszów Foothills in the Context of the Current Set of Radiocarbon Dating Models

Król, Dariusz

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“…The ra diocar bon dat ing re sults of 4 out of 5 sam ples taken from this layer are very sim i lar (Ta ble 1 and Fig. 13), in di cat ing that the ma terial of this layer was formed ~4800-5300 cal BP, and so taken from a cul tural layer re lated to the ac tiv i ties of the Fun nel Beaker cul ture pop u la tion whose multi-phase set tle ment and cem e tery are lo cated in nearby Paw³osiów (Rybicka, 2011;Król, 2017Król, , 2018Król, , 2019.…”

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“…These may be at trib uted to in ten tional ac tiv ity (lo cal burn ing) by Mesolithic peo ples or to the ag ri cul tural econ omy of the Early Neo lithic com mu ni ties. The sec ond stage of anthropogenic impacts oc curred at the turn of the At lan tic and Subboreal pe ri ods and may be re lated to the eco nomic ac tiv ity of peo ple be long ing to the broadly un der stood Lengyel-Polgár cir cle and Fun nel Beaker cul ture (Kadrow and Zakooecielna, 2000;Dêbiec et al, 2015;Rybicka, 2016;Król, 2017Król, , 2018Król, , 2019Rybicka et al, 2017). This stage was char ac ter ized by an in creas ing pro portion of plants in di cat ing the en large ment of for est clear ings, the ap pear ance of weeds, ferns (bracken), and the oc cur rence of char coal par ti cles in de pos its as a fos sil in di ca tor of hu man-induced and/or nat u ral fire.…”

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Inside and outside a burial mound: when, how and in what environment were the kurgans built by Late Neolithic communities on the Subcarpathian loess plateau (SE Poland)?

ŁANCZONT,

NOGAJ-CHACHAJ,

ŻOGAŁA

et al. 2023

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In side and out side a burial mound: when, how and in what envi ron ment were the kur gans built by Late Neo lithic com mu ni ties on the Subcarpathian loess pla teau (SE Po land)? Geo log ical Quar terly, 67: 32; https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1702The unique, well-pre served kur gan com plex near Cieszacin Wielki (SE Po land) is a spe cific type of ar chae o log i cal site with its own land scape form. This com plex of pre his toric earth burial mounds, lo cated on a wide, flat wa ter shed hill top with NW-SE ori en ta tion, be longs to a chain of sim i lar forms found in the loess fore land of the Carpathians. The kur gans were prob a bly built by Late Neo lithic com mu ni ties of the Corded Ware cul ture en gaged in pastoralism with ro ta tional graz ing. Taking into ac count the need to pre serve this valu able el e ment of the cul tural land scape and ar chae o log i cal her i tage in its orig inal form, in stead of by ex ca va tion that would ir re triev ably de stroy the site, non-in va sive and min i mally in va sive in ves ti ga tions were car ried out at the Cieszacin Wielki site. The re sults of lithological, geo chem i cal, palaeopedological and palynological anal y ses as well as com bined geo phys i cal prospection were used to ex am ine the struc ture of the kur gans, and to re con struct their orig i nal ap pear ance and the nat u ral palaeoenvironment in their sur round ings. The time when the mounds were built was de ter mined based on ra dio car bon dat ing of or ganic ma te rial in the sam ples taken from bore holes made into them. The kur gans near Cieszacin Wielki are of dif fer ent sizes and oc cur close to each other. The cover of the mounds con sists of two lay ers. An in ner dark layer con tains hu mus ma te rial ev i dently in di cat ing ear lier hu man ac tiv ity due to a high con tent of phospho rus. Ra dio car bon dat ing shows that the ma te rial of this layer was formed about 4800-5300 cal BP, so it is a rem nant of the Fun nel Beaker cul tural layer. Pol len anal y sis in di cates that each mound was dec o rated with bloom ing birch twigs af ter the first stage of kur gan con struc tion. This prac tice could have been an ex pres sion of magic and rit ual cer e mo nies as well as be ing aimed at pro tect ing the mound from ero sion. Grooves around the cir cum fer ence of the mounds marked their orig i nal ex tent. Sub se quently, the whole mound was cov ered with pale loess ma te rial taken from a nearby pit. Geo phys i cal in ves ti gations in di cated the ex is tence of sev eral anom a lies, dif fer ing in size and shape, in side the mounds. These rep re sent burial cham bers lo cated at var i ous depths both un der and within each mound. Based on pol len anal y sis, we think that the kur gans were orig i nally lo cated not in open land scape but in a mid-for est clear ing, in an area pre vi ously used by the peo ple of the Funnel Beaker cul ture, prob a bly for cat tle graz ing. Key words: llithological method, com bined geo phys i cal ap proaches, pol len anal y sis, stra tig ra ph...

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Inside and outside a burial mound: when, how and in what environment were the kurgans built by Late Neolithic communities on the Subcarpathian loess plateau (SE Poland)?

ŁANCZONT,

NOGAJ-CHACHAJ,

ŻOGAŁA

et al. 2023

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“…The number of SE FBC sites is very high, although the majority of them are only known from surface surveys (e.g. Król, 2019; Nowak, 2001; Pelisiak, 2018). They differed in their size and possibly functions, ranging from small (1 to 2 ha), and middle (2–5 ha) to large settlements (up to 30–40 ha).…”

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Middle Neolithic agricultural and land-use models in southern Poland: A case-study of the long-term settlement in Mozgawa

Korczyńska-Cappenberg

Nowak

Mueller-Bieniek

et al. 2023

The Holocene

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Palaeoecological and archaeological studies conducted in Mozgawa (southern Poland) demonstrated a long-term sustainable land-use by inhabitants of a large settlement occupied during the second half of the fourth millennium BC. The Middle Neolithic society established a settlement that covered an area of about 30–35 ha and functioned during at least three centuries, as validated by the absolute chronology. A thorough analysis based on the fuzzy-logic principle combined with archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data showed that the subsistence model was based on agricultural practices, related with both crop cultivation and animal husbandry, together with an important component of hunting, fishing and gathering. Ecological requirements of plants and animals represented by fossil remains suggested that the exploited area included a variety of habitats. In the open landscape, wet and dry grasslands, used partly as pastures, cultivated fields and marshes were present. Wooded areas included deciduous lime-oak-elm forests, also of open canopy type, and riparian forests. This was due to the transitional location of the Mozgawa site on a loess-mantled hill, covered with fertile soils, but right on the border with a vast alluvial plain of the Nida River. Such ecologically diversified micro-region became a managed landscape, which provided rich resources for seasonal diets of the settlement’s inhabitants. The case study of the Mozgawa site offers a unique insight into the palaeoeconomy of the Funnel Beaker culture in central Europe.

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Plant macro-remains from a large middle Neolithic settlement in SE Poland – Internal diversification and possible status of the settlers

Mueller-Bieniek

Hoyo

Korczyńska-Cappenberg

et al. 2023

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Is it a long or short-duration phenomenon? Existence of Funnel Beaker Culture Societies in the Rzeszów Foothills in the Context of the Current Set of Radiocarbon Dating Models

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Inside and outside a burial mound: when, how and in what environment were the kurgans built by Late Neolithic communities on the Subcarpathian loess plateau (SE Poland)?

Inside and outside a burial mound: when, how and in what environment were the kurgans built by Late Neolithic communities on the Subcarpathian loess plateau (SE Poland)?

Middle Neolithic agricultural and land-use models in southern Poland: A case-study of the long-term settlement in Mozgawa

Plant macro-remains from a large middle Neolithic settlement in SE Poland – Internal diversification and possible status of the settlers

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