Published: 2020-12-16

Złota culture grave from Kleczanów, Sandomierz district, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Monika Bajka , Marek Florek
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.1846

Abstract

In 2014, a niche grave linked with the Złota culture was accidentally discovered in Kleczanów (Sandomierz district, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship). An approximately 25-year-old man was inhumed inside. He was crippled: one of his legs was shorter as a result of an improperly healed fracture. His body was subjected to magical rituals. For example, his skull was separated from the rest of the body and placed in a stone-lined cache. The grave inventory was composed of at least three vessels (a mug with a handle and two amphorae), two bone plaques (belt elements), a bone awl, and a flint arrowhead, as well as animal bones (a pig mandible, limb bones of the following animals: roe deer, medium-sized bird, and sheep or goat). A 14C date obtained from a bone fragment allows us to date the grave to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC.

Keywords:

Złota culture, grave, Eneolithic, Sandomierz Upland, Lesser Poland

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Bajka, M., & Florek, M. (2020). Złota culture grave from Kleczanów, Sandomierz district, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 72(2). https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.1846

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