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ot sitcs a iv found ulong the lakes Żnińskie, Sobiojuakie, Wąs oskie and tho rivct ol Gąsaw ka as lar as to us conftucnce into tho ri\er of Notce (Kośko 1979, Map 1HB). Another remams left atlcr Crossing tho ntarshy bottom of the Toruń Basiu are encampmenu front ihc Ute Neolithic and rtnds of single słone tools of the Corded Wturtł culture m the vicmity of Nakło. Kruszyna and Bydgoszcz (Woźny 2001: 91-105),

The importance of the bonlerland between Kuvavia and Pomerania rosę sig-mttcantly m the lanc w hen early Brotue lw no culture and Inter Tr/ciniec horizon dcsclopcd. The phystogruphical fromier in the fonu of the vust Noteć iec ntarginal \alles, could ha\e a rcstrninmg cITect on infiltration of thosc societics to the north. In the early phasc of the Bron/c \gc that barricr was o\ ereoinc in two a\es: the Bydgos/c t wadutg place (fig 4) and the wadtng place located on the linę linking Kesnut vs ith U\r,-\-k Uoth of thern ans marked by umque presence of rnctals in the tce maiytnal valley /one. especially in the case of the Bydgoski wading place, wioch funcuoncd tn 171H» I 500 BG That fact ntay be interpreted as a sign prov-mg herc the slage relay /ones w uhm the Iwno culture system, or minor contact wmm M te raUM of far-rcaching cireulation of materiał culture pruducts and rew matcnals that were sought for (Kosko 1979: 138). Thcy would complete the acftvit> ot the Utsitnguishutg contact /one bctwcen Pomerania and Grcat Polarni whwh was located fart het to the north. by the Noteć estuary to the Warta (Bukowski 1998 un

4 THt BORDERLAND BE TWEEN KUYAYIA AND POMERANIA IN THt 11 SAT1AN CULTURAL TRAD1TION

The hnal stgn of long-lasimg cultural process laking place front the begin-aagof the Bronie Agc was ansmg of a new system, originating front the Umticld cwhurc treduion Ku\avta bcctuttc a i nem ber of the eastem zonę of the Lusatian pntabh much carltcr than the sca regions (Kośko. Cofta-Broniewska p.ttl proccar cultural unificalton was slow er in East Pomerania. Re-t role of mediator in the contacts with south played ■na howesc*. the mis communicattoti zonę w as the mtddle Noteć val-H teteMtd tmgratton ftom Kuya\ ta and northem Great Poland to the M ■( Cwani ad kann Pomerania (Gedl 1989: 25 51). Thcre ąre w ■MM* aad I >—han burial grounds in the south-castem regions of the •f Ba Whnyca. the Wda and the Brda t Bukowski 1998: 160), thus ais' tejwrnPaawnwan borderiand. As an e\planation of that phenomenon. M whaa H Lusatian culture arose. is the collapse of ant bor cxchange łl-łf) ftmetiouiitg so wrell m the carlier periods (C/cbres/uk H^HHKIf^tes tang dtotance travcls to the Baltie Sca. lead-®S hmiugfr the htmkrtand hctwcem Kuyasta and Pomerania and ulong the Iow er Vnwh. ««M tanpenrs rclmąutshcd

The bonferlnnd hotwecn Kuynvin and Pomerania ii the tum of the Neolithic and the Brotue Age wtlh marked Kttlcmenl potnu and pi