DOI Kapitel:
Grenzgänger, traders and the last hunter-gatherers of the North European Plain
DOI Kapitel:Kotula, Andreas: Paths of innovation – the site Dąbki, Poland, and the early forager pottery in the Baltic Sea region
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.66745#0228
Andreas Kotula
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Fig. 1 Location of the site Dgbki and reconstruction of the island situation.
exchange with more western ERT groups, probably
on Riigen island, and two blades of chocolate flint
point to interactions with southern Neolithic LBK
communities (Sobkowiak-Tabaka2015). The pottery
ensemble was especially targeted for new systematic
analyses, as the variability of the assemblage and
possible influences from southern Neolithic commu-
nities had been pointed out before (Ilkiewicz 1989).
The early local vessel types comprise of pointed-
bottom pots and oval bowls (lamps). With the new
examination it was also possible to uncover round-
and flat-based funnel beakers in the material. With
the rejection of remains of domestic animals and
plants, the introduction of Funnel Beaker culture
(TRB) vessels confirmedly was not accompanied by
a change in economy at the site. Additionally, many
sherds could be identified as non-local ware from dif-
ferent Neolithic societies. Some LBK fragments show
the influx of foreign ware starting during an early oc-
cupational phase c. 4,900 calBC, followed by Stroke
Band pottery (SBK), and especially numerous Brzesc
Kujawski ware (c. 4,600-4,000 calBC; after Grygiel
2008; contra: Czerniak et al. 2016). They indicate
long lasting exchange networks to Neolithic societies
in the south, especially Kujawy. Some sherds of an
extremely well-made and richly ornamented ware
could be identified as Bodrogkeresztur culture pot-
tery from Hungary, dating to the late 5th millennium
calBC (Czekaj-Zastawny 2015). Additionally, a per-
forated amphibolite axe was also found which pos-
sibly originates from a late SBK context (Terberger
et al. 2009). The overall evidence of the non-local
ware highlights long lasting and far reaching contact
networks to farming societies, indicating that the
site was an important place of Mesolithic-Neolithic
exchange networks in the southern Baltic area.
Some finds from the assemblage might have
acted as exchange goods. Amber pieces, which occur
regularly at Dqbki, both processed and unprocessed,
represent a raw material of probable importance to
227
Fig. 1 Location of the site Dgbki and reconstruction of the island situation.
exchange with more western ERT groups, probably
on Riigen island, and two blades of chocolate flint
point to interactions with southern Neolithic LBK
communities (Sobkowiak-Tabaka2015). The pottery
ensemble was especially targeted for new systematic
analyses, as the variability of the assemblage and
possible influences from southern Neolithic commu-
nities had been pointed out before (Ilkiewicz 1989).
The early local vessel types comprise of pointed-
bottom pots and oval bowls (lamps). With the new
examination it was also possible to uncover round-
and flat-based funnel beakers in the material. With
the rejection of remains of domestic animals and
plants, the introduction of Funnel Beaker culture
(TRB) vessels confirmedly was not accompanied by
a change in economy at the site. Additionally, many
sherds could be identified as non-local ware from dif-
ferent Neolithic societies. Some LBK fragments show
the influx of foreign ware starting during an early oc-
cupational phase c. 4,900 calBC, followed by Stroke
Band pottery (SBK), and especially numerous Brzesc
Kujawski ware (c. 4,600-4,000 calBC; after Grygiel
2008; contra: Czerniak et al. 2016). They indicate
long lasting exchange networks to Neolithic societies
in the south, especially Kujawy. Some sherds of an
extremely well-made and richly ornamented ware
could be identified as Bodrogkeresztur culture pot-
tery from Hungary, dating to the late 5th millennium
calBC (Czekaj-Zastawny 2015). Additionally, a per-
forated amphibolite axe was also found which pos-
sibly originates from a late SBK context (Terberger
et al. 2009). The overall evidence of the non-local
ware highlights long lasting and far reaching contact
networks to farming societies, indicating that the
site was an important place of Mesolithic-Neolithic
exchange networks in the southern Baltic area.
Some finds from the assemblage might have
acted as exchange goods. Amber pieces, which occur
regularly at Dqbki, both processed and unprocessed,
represent a raw material of probable importance to