Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (4.1992(1993))

"flotation pits" of 1 sq. metre each were excavated. Flotation
yielded a considerable amount of charred macroremains. The
remains turned out impossible to identify during later examination
in the laboratory, having been totally decomposed by flotation.
Only the charred remains of wood found in the remains of hearths
localized on the outskirts of the midden where the Neolithic burial
ground was already encroaching, seem to be an appropriate
material for further studies by a botanist.
The "flotation squares" excavated in the midden also
yielded a typical habitation offal such as potsherds, lithics (flaked
and flaked-and-partly-ground implements as well as fragments of
grindstones) and bones of animals, domestic and wild.
One of the most important result obtained so far at the
burial ground is the discovery of the two separate clusters of
Neolithic burials: poor and rich graves. The objective of the
fieldwork carried out during the last season was to enlarge the pit
excavated prior to this campaign, thus making the spatial extent
of both these clusters clearer. A further 528 sq. meters were
explored in the central part of the site. In the excavated squares
17 Neolithic graves were found and 7 more inhumations of this
date were spotted on the eroded surface of the ground and
explored. The distribution of the graves in the trench followed the
same pattern as was established in the previous seasons. Both
clusters of inhumations, poor and rich, were defined in terms of
space. In addition another cluster of rich graves seems to have
been encountered in last season's excavations.
Similarly to the previous seasons, the rich graves - the
inhumations of the elite of the local social group - are characteris-
tic by their complex construction and impressive furnishing. The

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