What is it about?
At the site, located close to the well known Brześć Kujawski and Osłonki Neolithic sites, traces of several Neolithic sites as well as some Bronze Age were documented (VI-I mill BC). The results were compared with other Neolithic sites from that region. In Neolithic Smólsk apart from emmer and einkorn wheats and hulled barley, also relatively numerous items of feather grass (Stipa sp.), bison grass (Hierochloe sp.), fat hen (Chenopodium sp.) and bukcwheat (Fallopia convolvulus) were noted. The site is located on a margin of two biogeographical zones.
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Why is it important?
The archaeobotanical data from that region are scarce. The eastern Kuyavia is locate on a 'frontier zone' of the Neolithic agriculture. The plant remains reflect both cultivation of near-eastern 'foundation' crops and use of local plant resources also as fodder.
Perspectives
Till now the archaeological (and archaeobotanical) research was focused mostly on the beginning od Neolithic (Linear Pottery culture and post Linear culture of the Danubian origin (mainly the Lengyel culture) but following groups and cultures were not well studied archaeobotanically till now. The are is known for a large megalithic toumbs of the Funnel Beaker culture. Palaeoenvironmental data , including on-site archaeobotany should bring important information about development of that fenomenon.
dr Aldona Mueller-Bieniek
Polska Akademia Nauk
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This page is a summary of: Plant macroremains from an early Neolithic site in eastern Kuyavia, central Poland, Acta Palaeobotanica, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/acpa-2016-0006.
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