Published: 2020-04-18

Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków

Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna , Albert Zastawny
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.1.013

Abstract

In 1964 Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, located 45 km east of Kraków. These materials were obtained 40 years earlier by Józef Żurowski, a Krakow archaeologist, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924, discovering the settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture and the Corded Ware culture cemetery.  J. Żurowski has never published the results of his research, and B. Burchard and A. Eker is so far the only comprehensive study of the Funnel Beaker culture settlement (Burchard and Eker 1964). The funeral materials of the Corded Ware culture, published by J. Machnik (Machnik 1964, 1966), were also studied. Since then, this site has not been the subject of detailed research and analysis. The huge, still unused, research potential of this site has become the reason for a scientific return to Książnice Wielkie. After almost 100 years of J. Żurowski's field work, the Archaeological Museum in Kraków resumed research. In 2017, magnetic prospecting was carried out, and since 2018 rescue excavations have been conducted in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University. Stone artefacts and radiocarbon analysis of materials obtained in the 1920s are also being studied.

Keywords:

Funnel Beaker culture, Funnel Beaker-Baden assemblages, Lublin-Volhynian culture, Corded Ware culture, Globular Amphora culture

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Brzeska-Zastawna, A., & Zastawny, A. (2020). Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 72(1), 277–312. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.1.013

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