STUDIES ON THE OLDEST LINEAR POTTERY CULTURE PHASE IN SOUTHEASTERN POLAND GWOŹDZIEC PROJECT
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2020-09-25

Neolithisation process is one of the most intensely debated issues in studies of the Stone Age. This applies particularly to areas of Central Europe, where there has been the emergence of the LBK. The oldest stage of cultural development is poorly known. Beginnings of the Linear Pottery culture settlement in the Southeastern Poland are identical to neolithisation of this area. This was a very important turning point, not only for the prehistory of that region, but for the whole of Central Europe. Areas of the Upper Vistula

River basin played very important role, because there were within the first stage of LBK expansion. The Gwoździec Project is focused on the earliest stage of LBK settlement in Southeastern Poland. It will require analyses of settlement distribution, obtaining new evidences on inner-structures and functions of domestic sites, and examining economic issues, analyses of artifacts and absolute chronology. All these procedures should create the basis for reconstructing processes accompanying the settlement of the first farmers, including the question of their origin and their inter-regional contacts, and also chronological frames of the early phase of LBK in Southeastern Poland, in correlation with the neighboring territories (occupied by other LBK groups and groups of the East Linear circle). The project is currently realized (National Science Centre, Poland, NCN 2014/15/B/HS3/02460)


Author(s): Czekaj-Zastawny, Agnieszka - Rauba-Bukowska, Anna (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Kukułka, Agnieszka (Regional Museum Tarnów)