Święte 11: Cemetery of the Corded Ware Culture

Abstract

the rescue excavations at site 11 in Święte, Radymno Commune, Jarosław District, were conducted prior to the construction of the A4 motorway. thirteen Corded ware culture (CwC) features, including eleven graves, were discovered. the Final eneolithic cemetery was placed in the neighbourhood of FBC graves, possibly at megalithic tombs. Most of the CwC graves have a niche construction -typical of the Lesser Poland funerary rite. the furnishings found in these features are characteristic of Subcarpathia as are inventories from nearby sites in the Lower San Valley and Rzeszów Foothills. their typo-chronological assessments point to the younger phase of the CwC. Ceramic artefacts include vessels finding analogies in the assemblages of the Middle Dnieper culture and the cultures of the steppe/forest-steppe of the North-western Black Sea Area. Among the latter is the spectacular find of a round-base pot from Feature 1149B. A series of five dates estimate the origins of the Święte cemetery graves at the interval of 2530-2375 BC.

Intrusions of the steppe population into the Balkan-Carpathian region in the Early Bronze Age: factors and aspects

“…The vessel from this has analogies in the Budzhak culture (Ivanova and Voitovych 2021, 64). In Święte, Poland, a ritual complex was found with a combination of traits that can be associated with the CWC, Yamna culture and Catacombna culture (Olszewski and Włodarczak 2018). However, the vessel of Yamna culture was connected not with the Northwest Pontic region, but with the territory between the Dnipro and Southern Bug rivers.…”

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)?

“…The graves of the Corded Ware cul ture with the re mains of par tially pre served mounds have been ex am ined by ex ca va tion at the Szczytna site (Hozer et al, 2017), in the area of Mirocin (Machnik et al, 2019), and at the OErednia (Machnik and Sosnowska, 1999) and Wola Wêgierska (Machnik and Sosnowska, 1998) sites lo cated in the Dynów Foot hills. Graves of the Corded Ware cul ture have also been inves ti gated at the Sko³oszów (Rybicka, 2016) and OEwiête (Kooeko et al, 2018;Olszewski and W³odarczak, 2018) sites located on the Up per Pleis to cene loess ter race of the San River (Rybicka et al, 2017).…”

Chronometry of the Final Eneolithic Cemeteries at Święte, Jarosław District, from the Perspective of Cultural Relations Among Lesser Poland, Podolia and the North-Western Black Sea Region

“…The excavations of site 11 at Święte produced a vessel characteristic of Early Bronze Age cultures of the north-western Pontic area [Kośko et al 2012;2018]. The discovery has already been discussed in the context of relations linking Corded ware culture (CwC) groups from Lesser Poland (Małopolska) with cultures of the steppe/forest-steppe zone [Kośko et al 2012;włodarczak 2014].…”