Title:

Amber treatment workshops of the Rzucewo Culture in Żuławy

Subtitle:

Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 32 (1985)

Creator:

Mazurowski, Ryszard F. (1949– )

Publisher:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Date issued/created:

1985

Description:

ill. ; 29 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

late Neolithic -- Poland ; Rzucewo culture ; late Neolithic amber workshops ; late Neolithic amber objects ; late Neolithic amber objects -- typoplogy ; late Neolithic amber objects -- production techniques ; Rzucewo culture pottery ; Rzucewo culture flint objects ; Żuławy Wiślane (Poland)

Abstract:

Amber treatment workshops of Rzucewo culture communities have been discovered in recent years at the mouth of the lower Vistula in the Żuławy depression. Following morphological, technological and raw material classifications of discovered amber relics, the author discussed ceramic, flint and stone finds. Reconstructions of the production process of various forms of amber ornaments from the late Neolithic in the lower Vistula region have been based on the author's findings and on experimental studies. A comparative analysis of relics with well investigated assemblages of the Rzucewo culture on the south coast of the Baltic made it possible to date the Żuławy sites to the end of the III and beginning of the II millennium. There occurred in those times significant climatic changes resulting in a rather rapid draining of areas so far covered by the Vistula Gulf. Its western bank line shifted several kilometers to the east. This created advantageous conditions for the development of seasonal settlement of Rzucewo culture groups arriving from morainic plateaus. An inviting factor was the relatively easy access to amber the popularity of which rose rapidly in those times in distant inland areas. This led to the development of an animated barter in amber

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

32

Start page:

5

End page:

60

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open