The simple life of LBK settlers in Kuyavia?

Płaza, Dominik Kacper; Papiernik, Piotr

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“…Hofmann 2020), and this heavily influences the interpretation of any traces of occupation outside this area -a perfect example of which being the Polish lowlands stretching along the middle and lower Vistula River. Up until now, opinions regarding the special function of lowland sites, diminishing new discoveries and stressing any hint of a temporary and ephemeral character, have been prominent in the discussion (Grygiel 2004;Bogucki 2020), which leads to the necessity of emphasizing the opposite -the similarity of these sites with the LBK loess norm (Pyzel 2010a;Płaza and Papiernik 2020). Similar discussions take place regarding the LBK further west, for example in Brandenburg (Cziesla 2008;Ismail-Weber 2017).…”

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

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On the Bandkeramik on the Lower Vistula River

Pyzel¹

2021

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The Vistula River is the most important river in Polish history and culture. This paper discusses whether this could influence the hypothesis regarding the crucial role of this river for the Early Neolithic colonization of the Polish lowlands. It presents an overview of the Linear Pottery culture settlement on the lower Vistula River. The main sources of information are broad-scale survey programmes, which provide an impressive number of sites, while the extent of large-scale excavations is very limited. This is an important caveat with respect to statements on similarities and differences in occupation between the lowlands and other regions. Nevertheless, according to the present state of research, the lower Vistula region can be regarded as a remote, but important settlement area of the LBK.

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Section: Regional Settingmentioning

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On the Bandkeramik on the Lower Vistula River

Pyzel¹

2021

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Novel method of ancient pottery analysis based on radioactive isotope ratios: a pilot study

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The proposed method has been applied to a multi-phased settlement complex and pottery manufacturing centre in Ostrowite in northern Poland. In this study the radioactive isotope ratios method has been applied to a set of ceramic pottery specimens from the same multi-layered archaeological site and probably produced from local raw material. The pilot radiometric research was based on: 24 Neolithic (5200–5000 BCE), 21 Early Iron Age (800–600 BCE), 4 Roman Period (100–400 CE), and 13 Middle Ages (1030–1320 CE) pottery fragments, and also 8 samples of local clay (glacial till) and 3 burned clay samples. The method shows the similarities within the ceramic material used to manufacture the pottery. The variations in the quantitative and qualitative compositions of the basic products (clay, silt, loam, sand, ash and organic admixtures) used in the preparation of the ceramic paste change the isotopic composition and activity ratios. Pottery from each ceramic manufacturing centre, based on the specific composition of the raw materials, have characteristic isotope ratios. Radioactive isotope ratios as fingerprints of ancient ceramic manufacturing centres have not yet been applied as an archaeometric method. In this study two isotope ratios have been selected and applied: 40K/228Ac and 226Ra/208Tl. All analysis have been done using gamma spectrometry system, with quality and quantity analysis of the spectrums. Low-background passive shield was used for obtain improvement of results quality. The pilot study confirms the grouping of isotope ratio results for each sample type, even in terms of similarities with the base clay material collected in this region.

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Early Neolithic Settlement Patterns in the Polish Lowlands – A Case Study of Selected Micro-Regions in Eastern Kuyavia

Pyzel

2021

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The purpose of this paper is the presentation of the settlement of the first farming communities of the Linear Pottery culture in the Polish lowlands. A case study of three neighboring micro-regions excavated on a large scale in eastern Kuyavia was conducted, which offered the possibility of analyzing various levels of the settlement. Based on the results obtained a local model of the LBK occupation in Kuyavia could be reconstructed. I argue that despite some regional variability a very general common settlement pattern existed for the whole LBK consisting of an iconic longhouse as the basic unit, the presence of micro-regional clusters of more or less contemporary sites, and the preference for regions with optimal environmental conditions. However, a detailed comparison within and between separate sites in the study area revealed some degree of variability inside this supposedly homogeneous pattern which can indicate the existence of different social units among small regional communities and their changes over time.

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The simple life of LBK settlers in Kuyavia?

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On the Bandkeramik on the Lower Vistula River

On the Bandkeramik on the Lower Vistula River

Novel method of ancient pottery analysis based on radioactive isotope ratios: a pilot study

Early Neolithic Settlement Patterns in the Polish Lowlands – A Case Study of Selected Micro-Regions in Eastern Kuyavia

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