Published: 2022-12-30

The Early Medieval pottery with admixture of calcium carbonate in ceramic fabric (samples from hillforts in the Nida Basin)

Anna Tyniec
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.2.2838

Abstract

Among vessels used in the Early Medieval Ages in the area of western Lesser Poland, special attention should be paid to specimens made of ceramic fabric with a tempering agent composed of minerals containing calcium carbonate. Such vessels are usually labelled as Kraków “white” pottery. The “white” pottery from the area of the Nida Basin may be characterized on the basis of vessels made of clay with calcium carbonate admixture discovered in archaeological features. The most numerous materials derive from hillforts in Stradów and Szczaworyż. This pottery could have been some kind of a tribal emblem. For more than 200 years it was dominating among vessels in western Lesser Poland. The group producing vessels made of calcium carbonate fabrics may be the Vistulans mentioned in written sources.

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Early Medieval Ages, Lesser Poland, pottery, ceramic fabric with calcium carbonate, Kraków “white” pottery, hillforts in the Nida Basin

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Tyniec, A. (2022). The Early Medieval pottery with admixture of calcium carbonate in ceramic fabric (samples from hillforts in the Nida Basin). Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 74(2), 317–336. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.2.2838

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