Published: 2017-11-28

The The first cremation traces in the Eneolithic period north of the Carpathian Mountains

Stanisław Wilk , Anita Szczepanek
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA69.2017.014

Abstract

The subject of this article is the first eneolithical cremation burial in south-eastern Poland which was discovered on the cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynia culture at site 2 in Książnice, voiv. świętokrzyskie.

Grave 14 was unearthed  while exploring the western part of the necropolis in August 2012. The burial pit, 122 x 75 cm, was shaped like a rectangle with rounded corners, elongated along the north-south axis. In the southern part of the grave, at the depth of 40-45 cm, a concentration of charred human bones, belonging to an individual at the age of maturus,  was found. Grave goods consist of two clay vessels (a pear-shaped cup with knobs on the larger bulge of its body, and a miniature pot with a gooseneck profile and notched spout) and twelve flint artefacts.

Analyzed burial is another proof of the intense cultural influences of the Hunyadihalom-Lažňany horizon to the late younger Danubian communities inhabiting Lesser Poland at the turn of the 5th and 4th millennia BC.

Keywords:

Lublin-Volhynia culture, burial rites, cremation, Hunyadihalom-Lažňany horizon, Carpathian Basin, Lesser Poland, Copper Age

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Wilk , S., & Szczepanek, A. . (2017). The The first cremation traces in the Eneolithic period north of the Carpathian Mountains . Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 69, 353–371. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA69.2017.014

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