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SPRAWOZDANIA ARCHEOLOGICZNE 66,2014 PL ISSN 0081 -3834

Stanisław Wilk¹

EARLY BRONZE BURIAL MATERIALS FROM SITE 2 IN KSIĄŻNICE, ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE PROYINCE

ABSTRACT

Wilk S. 2014. Early Bronze burial materials from site 2 in Książnice, świętokrzyskie province. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 66,241-278.

The subject of the analysis in this article are three skeletal graves of the Mierzanowice culture, excavated in the seasons of 2008 and 2010 at site 2 in Książnice, Świętokrzyskie province. From the graves discussed above we have one radiocarbon datę, obtained from grave 1 MC, which is 37i5±35BP. The burial inventory is relatively rich, consisting of flint arrowheads, a bonę pin, boar tusk pendants, bonę and shell beads, as well as copper arte-facts, is characteristic of the classical and late phases. Remains of the settlement and cemetery of the Mierzano-wice culture mark the youngest chronological horizon on site 2 in Książnice. With certainty, we can relate all of the three skeletal graves, as well as the ditch running along the N W-SE-S axis across the central part of the eleva-tion on which the site is located and the sacrificial pit.

Keywords: Mierzanowice Culture, funeral rites, Early Bronze Age, Książnice

Received: 25.04.2014; Revised: 30.05.2014; Accepted: 28.07.2014

Site 2 in Książnice, Pacanów commune, is located on top of one of the loess-covered elevations in the eastern part of the Wójczańsko-Pińczowski Ridge (AZP 95-67: 100). To the west, round that terrain flows a smali, unnamed watercourse, forming a distinct valley. To the north, the terrain smoothly falls towards the Kraków-Sandomierz road. The site was discovered by Jan Machnik and Leszek Gajewski in 1955. In 1993 Andrzej and Barbara

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