Published: 2025-12-16

Imported artefacts from the site Brzezie 17 (Lesser Poland) in the light of the Linear Pottery culture exchange contacts with the Eastern-Linear circle

Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/77.2025.2.3992

Abstract

In the second half of the 6th millennium BC, two cultural circles developed on both sides of the Carpathians – the Linear Pottery Culture and the Eastern-Linear Culture. Contacts between these two units were based mainly on the long-distance exchange of richly decorated ceramics and stone raw materials. Very strong connections are visible primarily between the area of the upper Vistula river basin and eastern Slovakia. A very good example of these contacts are imported objects from the LBK settlement in Brzezie Site 17. As the analyses carried out have shown, they come from the territories of eastern Slovakia – the Šariš Basin and East Slovak Plain. As the LBK developed, the exchange of goods gradually flourished. The intensification of contacts with the south is legible at most of the settlements in south-eastern Poland, mostly starting from the decline of the LBK II phase. These contacts ceased suddenly as the Linear Pottery Culture and the Bükk Culture diminished.

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Eastern Linear circle ornamentation, obsidian, Linear Pottery culture, Tiszadob-Kapušany group, Bükk Culture, ceramic imports, import

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Czekaj-Zastawny, A. (2025). Imported artefacts from the site Brzezie 17 (Lesser Poland) in the light of the Linear Pottery culture exchange contacts with the Eastern-Linear circle. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 77(2), 195–215. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/77.2025.2.3992

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