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adam_text | SPIS TREŚCI
Od
Autora
.......................... 9
Część I. ZAGADNIENIA WSTĘPNE
.................. 10
1.
Cel i zakres pracy
....................... 10
2.
Próba definicji budownictwa
.................... 11
3.
Budownictwo a architektura
.................... 12
4.
Podział budownictwa neolitycznego
.................. 13
5.
Budownictwo jako jeden z atrybutów neolityzacji Europy Środkowej
........ 14
6.
Uwarunkowania budownictwa neolitycznego
................ 14
6.1.
Warunki naturalne
...................... 14
6.2.
Surowce
........................ 14
6.3.
Czynniki społeczno-gospodarcze i produkcyjne
............. 15
7.
Źródła archeologiczne i możliwości badań budownictwa neolitycznego
........ 15
7.1.
Źródła do badań budownictwa naziemnego
. ............ 16
7.1.1.
Źródła bezpośrednie
.................... 16
7.1.2.
Źródła pośrednie
..................... 16
7.2.
Pozostałości budownictwa podziemnego
............... 17
7.3.
Możliwości poznawcze. Fakty i wyobrażenia
.............. 17
7.4.
Rodzaje obiektów, konstrukcji i technik budowy
............. 18
7.4.1.
Obiekty
....................... 18
7.4.2.
Konstrukcje i techniki budowy
................. 20
8.
Charakter informacji i układ ich przekazu
................ 21
8.1.
Pochodzenie informacji i ich dobór
................. 21
8.2.
Podziały terytorialne ziem Polski
................. 21
8.2.1.
Podziały geograficzne
................... 21
8.2.2.
Podział administracyjny
................... 22
9.
O budownictwie schyłkowomezolitycznym, czyli co zastali pierwsi rolnicy na ziemiach Polski
. 22
Część
II.
CYKL NADDUNAJSKICH KULTUR WSTĘGOWYCH
.......... 25
1.
Podział kulturowo-chronologiczny i terytorialny
............... 25
2.
Okres starszy. Kultura ceramiki wstęgowej rytej
............... 25
2.1.
Początki budownictwa neolitycznego na ziemiach Polski i zagadnienie reliktowych form
zabudowy
........................ 25
2.2.
Wstępne informacje o naziemnych domach słupowych kultury ceramiki wstęgowej rytej
w Europie
........................ 28
SPIS TREŚCI
2.2.1.
Charakterystyka i klasyfikacja domów
............... 28
2.3.
Domy słupowe i ich otoczenie w świetle znalezisk na ziemiach Polski
....... 30
2.3.1.
Małopolska. Dorzecze górnej Wisły
............... 31
2.3.1.1.
Podział i charakterystyka pozostałości domów
........... 31
2.3.2.
Kujawy i ziemia chełmińska
................. 39
2.3.3.
Dolny Śląsk
...................... 39
2.3.4.
Otoczenie domów
.................... 42
2.3.5.
Uwagi końcowe
..................... 45
3.
Okres młodszy
........................ 45
3.1.
Kultura ceramiki wstęgowej kłutej
................. 45
3.1.1.
Pozostałości budownictwa naziemnego
.............. 45
3.2.
Kultura lendzielska. Grupa brzesko-kujawska
.............. 48
3.2.1.
Baza źródłowa
..................... 49
3.2.1.1.
Rejon brzesko-kujawski
.................. 49
3.2.1.2.
Osady w innych rejonach osadniczych na Kujawach i Pałukach
..... 52
3.2.1.3.
Ziemia chełmińska
................... 58
3.2.2.
Charakterystyka pozostałości budownictwa
............. 59
3.2.2.1.
Małe domy słupowo-plecionkowe
............... 59
3.2.2.2.
Długie domy trapezowate
................. 62
3.2.2.3.
Obiekty podziemne
................... 66
3.2.2.4.
Polepa
....................... 70
4.
Zagadnienia ogólne związane z budownictwem kultur wstęgowych
........ 72
4.1.
Przeznaczenie mieszkalne i gospodarcze długich domów
......... 72
4.2.
Przemiany budownictwa w kulturach wstęgowych
........... 74
4.3.
Najstarszy stył w architekturze europejskiej
............. 75
Część III. KULTURY PUCHARÓW LEJKOWATYCH I CERAMIKI PROMIENISTEJ
.... 77
1.
Kultura pucharów lejkowatych
.................... 77
1.1.
Zagadnienie rodowodu budownictwa kultury pucharów lejkowatych
....... 77
1.2.
Sposób przekazu informacji o budownictwie
.............. 78
1.3.
Polska środkowa i pomocna
................... 78
1.3.1.
Kujawy i wschodnia Wielkopolska
................ 78
1.3.1.1.
Obiekty częściowo zagłębione w ziemię
............. 78
1.3.1.2.
Domki w grobowcach w Gaju i Zberzynie
............ 78
1.3.1.3.
Domy słupowe z wczesnej i środkowej fazy
............ 81
1.3.2.
Ziemia chełmińska
.................... 87
1.3.2.1.
Obiekty naziemne
................... 87
1.3.2.2.
Obiekty podziemne
................... 87
1.3.3.
Pojezierze Gostynińskie
.......... 87
1.3.4.
Wyżyna Łódzka. Dorzecze Grabi
................ 89
1.3.5.
Pomorze Zachodnie. Pojezierze Bytowskie
............. 91
1.3.6.
Pomorze wschodnie. Pojezierze Starogardzkie
............ 91
1.4.
Polska południowo-wschodnia
......... 93
1.4.1.
Przyczyny ograniczonego zasobu źródeł do badań budownictwa naziemnego na wyży¬
nach lessowych
........... 93
1.4.2.
Znaczenie odkryć w Niedźwiedziu i Słonowicach
........... 94
1.4.3.
„Pseudopłoszczadki w osadach kultury pucharów lejkowatych
....... 96
1.4.4.
Źródła pośrednie i polepa budowlana
...... 98
1.4.4.1.
Polepa z osady w Ćmielowie, stan. Gawroniec
........... 98
1.4.5.
Domniemane domy w świetle danych pośrednich
........... 101
1.4.5.1.
Zawarża, pow. Pińczów
......... 101
1.4.5.2.
Ćmielów, stan. Gawroniec
....... 103
1.4.6.
Budownictwo podziemne
........ 109
SPIS TREŚCI
7
1.4.6.1.
Charakterystyka i klasyfikacja jam z Ćmielowa
........... 109
1.4.6.2.
Piece i paleniska
......... .......... 118
1.4.6.3.
Jamy z innych osad
................... 118
1.5.
Polska południowo-zachodnia
.................. 123
1.5.1.
Domy
........................ 123
1.5.2.
Obiekty podziemne
.................... 125
2.
Kultura ceramiki promienistej
.................... 126
3.
Podsumowanie części III
..................... 128
3.1.
Budownictwo naziemne
.................... 128
3.1.1.
Techniki budowlane
.................... 128
3.1.2.
Domy
........................ 128
3.2.
Budownictwo podziemne
.................... 129
Część
IV.
KULTURY SCHYŁKOWONEOLITYCZNE
............. 131
1.
Kultura amfor kulistych na Niżu
................... 131
1.1.
Pozostałości budynków naziemnych
................. 132
1.1.1.
Obiekty z rowkami fundamentowymi
............... 132
1.1.2.
Domy słupowe
..................... 132
1.1.3.
Obiekty częściowo wkopane w ziemię
.............. 136
1.2.
Zagadnienie rodowodu budownictwa kultury amfor kulistych na Niżu
....... 137
2.
Kultury amfor kulistych i złocka na Wyżynie Sandomierskiej
........... 137
2.1.
Osady kultury amfor kulistych w Mierzanowicach, stan.
1
i
4,
i Wilczyc, stan.
5 ... 137
2.2.
Kultura złocka
....................... 138
3.
Kultura ceramiki sznurowej
..................... 140
4.
Kultura rzucewska
....................... 140
5.
Kultury subneolityczne
...................... 142
5.1.
Szałasy naziemne
...................... 143
5.2.
Półziemianki
....................... 145
5.3.
Domy słupowe?
...................... 145
5.4.
Jamy
......................... 145
5.5.
Pomosty nad wodami
..................... 146
Część
V.
NEOLITYCZNE BUDOWNICTWO MIESZKALNE I GOSPODARCZE NA ZIEMIACH
POLSKI W ŚWIETLE FAKTÓW I WYOBRAŻEŃ
............. 147
1.
Uwarunkowania gospodarcze rodzajów zabudowy
.............. 147
2.
Procesy budowlane
....................... 148
2.1.
Budownictwo naziemne
.................... 148
2.1.1.
Umiejętności i narzędzia pracy
................. 148
2.1.2.
Planowanie i fazy procesu budowy
............... 150
2.1.3.
Jakość budynków
..................... 152
2.2.
Budowa pomieszczeń podziemnych
................. 153
3.
Rozwój, stagnacja i regres
(?)
w pradziejach budownictwa neolitycznego na ziemiach Polski
. 153
3.1.
Rozwój budownictwa o obcym pochodzeniu
.............. 153
3.2.
Przemiany w budownictwie o miejscowym rodowodzie
........... 154
4.
Zakończenie
......................... 155
Aneks. Próba określenia materiałochłonności budownictwa naziemnego w neolicie ziem Polski
. 157
Summary. Dwellings and utility constructions in the Neolithic of Poland
........ 162
Bibliografía
.......................... 171
SUMMARY
DWELLINGS AND UTILITY CONSTRUCTIONS
IN THE NEOLITHIC OF POLAND
PART I. INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS
The intention of this paper is to present the re¬
sults of the research run in Poland on the Neolithic
architecture. In its first part the author discusses
theoretical questions. He assumes that architecture
is defined as an erection of constructions on earth
surface or preparing rooms under the earth. It is
a sphere of production counting as an element of
material culture which ensembles environmental
management. In many languages the terms archi¬
tecture and constructing have a definite meaning.
They can also be taken for names of two realms:
one related to projecting and one related to the ex¬
ecution of the project. General forms and details of
the buildings or their archaeological remains display
the ideas of the designer. Several replicated features
of the buildings allow the determination of archi¬
tectural styles. One of them has been singled out in
the architecture of the later period of the
Danubian
cultures development (see Part II).
Architecture is divided into the overground
kind (superstructures)
-
meaning objects being built
on the ground s surface
—
and the underground
kind- which means preparing space and devices
under the ground s surface. The basic material used
for the overground architecture was wood from the
forests, omnipresent in the Neolithic era. Wood used
in the first line was oak and pine, but also maple,
birch, ash, poplar, willow, linden, alder and hazel.
Building material utilized was the stems and the
branches of the trees. The embranchments allowed
combining horizontal and vertical elements. Clay
was the helping material of post-glacial origin and
the wooden constructions of the buildings as well
as the inside arrangements were all pasted with it.
The Neolith architecture on Polish territories may
be defined as wooden-earthen and very different
from the stone architecture of Neolithic in the Near
East. Its remains are very meagre and scarce, since
the material easily decayed in the ground, was re¬
duced in position in different degree due to site
lowering caused by erosion. They were also de¬
stroyed in later periods due to human economy.
Direct information is given by the remains and
traces preserved in the ground such as post holes
and foundational ditches, while the source of indi¬
rect information are the arrangements of the bur¬
rows, hearths, daub, garbage and movable relics
belonging to the buildings of which the walls dis¬
appeared without a trace. Especially precious is the
so called burnt clay bearing traces of wooden
constructions and fragments of appliances. In com¬
parison to the ethnological data the archaeological
Neolithic sources found on our territories give at
most a fraction of a percent information on the en¬
tire construction and most often none on the par¬
ticulars of the superstructures and the interior ar¬
rangements. The authors of descriptions refer to
ethnographic analogies, which may suggest false
images.
Undefined object names often get confused,
therefore the author specified the meaning of such
names as the tent
-
portable object; the hut
-
not portable; objects partially dug into the ground
-
pit houses and basin houses; houses
-
living
quarters, family dwellings set on the earthen sur¬
face. Constructing houses was one of the symptoms
of the Neolithic revolution. Agriculture demanded
living in one place for at least several years. The
SUMMARY
163
invention of a wooden-earthen house consisted in
building roofs in a form of a hut supported by walls
standing on the ground. Some of the constructions
used were archaeologically detectable, since partially
dug into the ground, such as: post houses with wattle
and houses on stilts; some of them, located on the
ground surface and therefore usually undetect-
able, such as: frame constructions and timber-wall¬
ing constructions.
Information used in this work was the one ac¬
cessible to the author, dated until the mid of
2008.
Presented are the most representative finds from
territorial groups of particular cultures. The dating
of
Danubian,
Funnel Beaker and Globular Amphora
cultures is given by the author after J.
Kruk
and
S. Milisauskas
(1999),
while the dating of all other
cultures
-
according to the authors of their respec¬
tive elaborations. Due to cultural and natural cir¬
cumstances the architectural rests in Central Poland,
on Central-European Lowland and on the Highland
of South-East Poland are very differentiated. Both
zones cross-contact on the area of South-Eastern
Poland.
In the end of the first part the architecture of the
Mesolithic societies, which still endured in Neo¬
lithic, has been characterized (Fig.
1)
(Schild
1967:
194
f; Schild,
Marczak,
Królik
1975;
Galiński
1986: 74).
PART II.
CONSTRUCTIONS IN
DANUBIAN
CULTURES
ИЛ
.
Early period. The Linear Pottery culture
(4600/
4500-3800
be,
5440/5380-4580
ВС)
The dominating feature of this culture was the
constructing of long houses (Buttler, Haberey
1938;
Modderman
1958-59;
Pavlů, Rulf, Zápotocká
1988;
Coudait
1998;
Pavlů
2000).
Post-Mesolithic
archaic
objects were the pit houses and basin houses (Fig.
2)
(Podkowińska
1959;
Godłowska
1986;
Czekaj-Za-
stawny
2008: 79),
as well as houses partially dug into
the ground (Fig.
3).
The biggest number of house
remains having a post construction with wattle was
discovered on the Highlands of South-Eastern Po¬
land
(Aksamit
1971;
Milisauskas
1976; 1986;
Cze-
kaj-Zastawny and others
2003;
Naglik
2005;
Czekaj-
Zastawny
2008).
They are dated on the latest III
Želiezovce
phase, while some other ones on phase II
-
the note phase (particulars given by
Czekaj-Za¬
stawny
2008: 38-55).
The remaining of the houses
form
2
rows of after-post-holes close to the walls
and
3
rows
ofinside
supports of the roof (Fig.
4-6).
Houses had a rectangular plan and were, with some
variations, North-South oriented. In none of them
a hearth was found.
A. Czekaj-Zastawny
(2008,
51
ff)
uses the classification by P.J.P. Moddermann
(1986; 1988)
into
3
types of houses (Fig.
7).
Houses
of about
6
m
width (table
3)
can, on the basis of
their length, be divided into
4
metrical categories:
small, medium, big and very big (table
1-2).
The
medium-sized houses, two or three-roomed, are
dominating by number (after
Czekaj-Zastawny
2008: 40
ff,
table HI). Small houses take an area of
30-40
m2, the biggest ones of over
300
m2 (Valde-
Nowak
2007)
(table
4).
Traces of mending and
maintenance works have been discovered
(Czekaj
-
Zastawny
2008: 49, Fig. 18).
Houses of the culture
discussed are also found in
Kujawy (Fig.
10)
(Czer-
niak
1988, 26-27;
Grygiel
2004: 185;
Pyzel
2006)
and in Lower Silesia (Fig.
11;
table
5)
(Kulczycka-
Leciejewiczowa
1993: 63; 1997: 139).
Along every house some big constructional pits
were present, left after the quarrying of clay used
for pasting the walls (Fig.
4-6,
7B-C), (Kulczycka-
Leciejewiczowa
1997: 117;
Czekaj-Zastawny
2008:
55-58).
Some of the pits, used for housekeeping,
were sheltered under roof overhang of the house
(Fig.
бЬ-с).
In some of the constructional pits
a fire was held, which was not kept inside the houses.
Remains of outhouse constructions, small roofs and
enclosures built between the houses were discov¬
ered (Czekaj-Zastawny
2008: 61).
II.2. Later Period
(3800-2900/2800
be,
4800-3640/
3310
ВС)
Linear Stroked Pottery culture
Designates a transitive period where the post-and-
wattle technique is dominating but some of the houses
already possess trapezoidal outlines (Fig. ^a-b),
(Zych
2002: 14).
J.
Romanow (1977)
differentiated
two types of houses discovered in Lower Silesia and
presented their reconstructions (Fig. ^c-d).
Lengyel
Culture.
Brześć-Kujawy
Group
(4700/
4600
ВС
after Grygiel
2008)
Information on architecture of the Polgar-Lengy-
el circle are limited to the
Brześć-Kujawy
group,
Kujawy
and the neighbouring
Chełmno
lands. Ex¬
amined there have been the richest and most repre¬
sentative on Polish lands remains of the
Lengyel
culture architecture, which are absent in Silesia and
only very few discovered in Little Poland (Kulczy-
cka-Leciejewiczowa
1993: 95).
The dominating occurrence was constructing
long
trapezoid
houses, but in two settlements some
remains of small relict post houses with wattle were
discovered (Grygiel
2008:
22ff, Fig.
8;
Czerniak
164
SUMMARY
1978) (Fig. 13).
They are affiliated to the forms and
building techniques of the houses in Stroked Pot¬
tery Culture.
The largest number of long houses has been dis¬
covered in the central settlements of
Brześć Kujaw¬
ski,
in
Osłonki (Fig.
14),
in the neighbour satellite
settlements (Grygiel
1986; 2008),
in the neighbour
sites of
Kujawy
region (Fig.
15-16),
(Maciejewski
1956;
Czerniak
1979; 1998; 2004;
Grossman
2003)
(table
6)
and on
Chełmno
lands (Czerniak
2000;
Kukawka, Kukawka-Małccka, Wawrzykowska
2002).
The house remains consist of wall-foundation-
ditches and a few post-holes left after posts support¬
ing the roof. The weight of the houses was also
carried by the palisade walls (Fig.
1
8a). The founda¬
tion ditches, with a profile in a U-form (Fig. lSd-e),
had the depth from
40
cm to
2
m
(Jażdżewski
1938;
Grygiel
1986),
maximum width of about
40-50
cm,
the widest were
1
m
wide. The walls in the ditches
were settled in a post-palisade technique (Fig. 15c,
f; 16b; 17b). The only entry to the dwellings was
placed in the southern frontal walls. Some of them
possessed side annexes (Fig. 14a) (Grygiel
2008,
Fig.
7
and
941;
Czerniak
2000:
Fig.
3-4).
The houses
were divided into the same
4
metrical categories as
in the Linear Pottery Culture. Their proportions are
depictured by: index
S
-
slenderness of outline
=
length
:
maximal width; index
Z
-
degree of nar¬
rowing
=
maximal width
:
minimal width (tables
7-9).
The interiors of the houses in the categories II-IV
were two- and three-partial.
Represented is one type
—
long
trapezoid
house.
Differentiated was only its type from
Biskupin
—
houses with furrows on side-walls prolongation.
(Fig. 15a; 16c).
On the basis
ofinformation
elaborated by R. Gry¬
giel one can assert that all small houses originate in
an earlier phase
(4700-4500
ВС,
Grygiel
2008:
1851
ff). In the classical phase
(4500-4300
ВС,
Grygiel
2008: 1855
ff) dominating were middle-
sized houses
(70%),
but big and huge houses are
also to be found. In the late phase the quotient of
middle-sized and big houses amounted to
47%.
Huge
houses were still very few.
To the underground objects we count the home
pits, located at the side of eastern walls, in the mid¬
dle parts of the houses. The house-side pits ap¬
pear between the houses in the courtyards (Grygiel
1986, 147
f). Little roofs were constructed above the
pits (Fig. ^b-c, f). Some of the pits were assumed
to be water containers or wells (Grygiel
2008: 342).
Outside of the houses big ground-holes were found,
excavations after quarrying the clay for pasting the
walls. Used for this purpose, among the tools known,
were pickaxes and spades (Grygiel
1986: 276,
Fig.
28: 3-5).
Two kinds of daub come from the settlements;
I
-
with imprints of massive pillars and logs, inclu¬
sively daub which was pasted between the round
posts of walls on stilts (Fig. 20a-g) and flat logs
(Fig. 20d-e); II
-
daub with imprints of rods
(Fig. 20f-k). There are traces of finger-forming on
the clay (Grygiel
2008:
Fig.
1467, 1468, 1470.2),
smearing (Grygiel, Fig.
1470)
and rubbing (Grygiel,
Fig.
1440.3).
In the later period of
Danubian
cultures a break¬
through took place. The rectangular post houses with
wattle were replaced by
trapezoid
houses on stilts.
In comparison with the Linear Pottery culture
(table
11)
the percentage of houses with length of
15-40
m
has grown by
20%
and amounted to
88%.
Using the houses of Linear Pottery culture was com¬
monly difficult due to dense placing of roof pillars
inside them. Their reduction to necessary minimum
in the
Lengyel
culture has made the houses more
comfortable and spacious.
In the research on many house functions a con¬
troversy may be raised over the possibility of keep¬
ing animals in them and over the placing of human
bedrooms (table
10).
The author has admitted into
the view that small animals like pigs, goats, sheep
and calves could have been kept in the wintertime
in the southern, airy house parts, behind the house-
entrances. In the houses of
Biskupin
type, places
between the wall extensions could have been used
as enclosures for cattle. Bedrooms for people could
have been located in the northern house segments,
situated the furthest from the entrances (Czerniak,
Coudart
1998).
In the Linear Pottery culture the
foundational ditches in the northern house parts can
testify the existence of walls on stilts, which were
denser than in the other parts. These parts covered
about
30%
of the house interior with a total area of
30
to
100
m2, where one or more multigenerational
families could have lived. The central parts of the
houses, where cellar pits were placed, have prob¬
ably had a utility purpose.
The long
trapezoid
houses bear testimony to
a high level of architecture development. In both
periods of Linear Pottery culture, within its wide
reach, the in-earthen remains of the long houses
display similar, replicated features, sometimes al¬
most identical. On this basis, even without the on-
earth remains, we can stipulate, that the original long
trapezoid
houses, in the later period of
Danubian
cultures, represent the oldest style of European ar¬
chitecture. Its range is comparable to the range of
buildings in classical, Romanic and Gothic styles in
SUMMARY
165
antiquity and middle ages. Great socio-cultural
changes were connected with the decline of
Danu¬
bian
Cultures and the fall of their architecture.
PART III. ARCHITECTURE
IN THE FUNNEL BEAKER
AND RADIAL-DECORATED CULTURES
Discussing these cultures jointly in the III part
of the work is motivated by the process of their
integration on the Upland in the beginning of final
Neolithic.
Funnel Beaker culture
(3200-2500
be,
3970-3060
ВС)
In this culture local Mesolithic traditions of hab¬
itable architecture have proved stronger then the
Southern influences
(Niesiołowska-Śreniowska
1983: 220, 240).
The megalithic tombs in
Kujawy
were recognized as metaphors of the long houses
in the Linear Pottery culture (Czerniak
1994: 150-
152;
Zych
2002: 65-72;
Rzepecki
2004: 164-165).
The remains of the architecture of Funnel Beaker
culture on the Lowland and Upland are radically
different. They are discussed according to the divi¬
sion of Poland in three geographic parts.
Central and Northern Poland:
Kujawy,
Eastern Great Poland and
Chełmno
Land
About
85%
of the entire superstructures are
known from the Lowland zone (table
12: 1-41): 70%
of the finds were discovered in
Kujawy
and in the
neighbouring part of Great Poland (table
12: 1-33).
Rooms partially dug into the earth, with hut-like
roofing, confirm the Mesolithic tradition. They are
labeled as basin houses (Tezlaff
1977: 193)
or cab¬
ins
(Kabaciński, Sobkowiak-Tabaka
2004),
(Fig.
21),
(Rzepecki
2004: 112-113,
Fig.
41.6).
An extraordi¬
nary discovery are the cultic houses in the tombs of
Kujawy
in
Gaj (Chmielewski
1952: 88-90)
and
Zberzyn (Gorczyca
1981),
(Fig. 22a) with a timber-
walling construction. They attest the knowledge of
this technique, which could also be used in dwell¬
ings. All houses from the settlements of Early and
Middle phases of the Funnel Beaker culture on the
Lowlands have had a post construction with wattle,
daubed with clay. Their remains are the after-post-
pits and burnt clay. The differentiation of metric
features of these four-sided houses has been shown
in table
ІЗа-с.
Dominating were small houses having
length of up to 10 m, bigger ones were very few.
The oldest houses were discovered in a settle¬
ment in
Sarnów, site
la, under the earthwork of
Kujawian type long barrows (Wiklak
1990),
(table
12: 3-4).
They were parted in two rooms, a porch
and a main room with a hearth (Fig.
ИЪ-с).
Such
houses were discovered on many sites in
Kujawy
(Czerniak,
Kosko
1993;
Domańska
1995;
Domań-
ska, Rzepecki
2001;
Rzepecki
2004).
From
Chełmno
Land only the rests of a post frame house found on
one site are known. An animal tomb was discov¬
ered beside it, which could have been a hostage
sacrifice connected with the construction of the
house
(Kukawka, Małecka-Kukawka, Wawrzykow-
ska
2002: 93-94).
In the so called
Mątwy
Group
(Kosko
1981:
123
f;
Prinke
1987: 81
f,
Fig. 5)
in
Inowrocław-
Mątwy
and Tarkowo (table
12: 14-18; Fig. 23)
dis¬
covered were house-remains, pits with roofing and
a large amount of burnt clay. The betterment of the
daub was not considered by the author an effect of
Tripolyean culture influence
(Kosko
1988: 104).
This
processing has been exercised on Polish lands since
the beginnings of Neolithic in
Danubian
cultures.
Lake District of
Gostynin
Only very few post- holes were discovered there,
therefore very important was the discovery of burnt
clay
(Rybička
2004).
In
Annopol, Gostynin
district,
aggregations of burnt clay earmarked places of sev¬
eral houses (table
12: 19-22;
Fig. 24a),
(Papiernik,
Rybička
2002).
Only in
Białka, Gostynin
district
(Fig. 24b), remains of a house with two pits inside
were discovered
(Rybička
2004: 178).
Łódź
Highland
In the basin of
Grabią
river, on several places,
rests of post frame houses were discovered (Pelisiak
2003:
p.
97 ff),
(table
12: 22-33).
Distinctive was
the reconstructed house
1
(Fig.
25С-Є)
from
Dobroń,
Pabianice
district, site
1,
with an annex and traces
of mending (Pelisiak
2003: 99
ff). Beside the house
walls some hutch pits with walls strengthened by
wattle were found (Pelisiak
2003: 107
ff), one of
them surrounded by post-holes after posts support¬
ing the roof.
Lake District of
Bytów
In the Lupawa Group in Poganice,
Słupsk
dis¬
trict, also some rests of a post house with wattle were
discovered, one of them with a hearth. Inside one
of the pits a hearth was found and traces of roof
braces (Jankowska
1980).
Lake District ofStarogard
In
Barłożno, Stargard Gdański
district, site
9,
rests of three post houses with wattle have been
discovered (Felczak
2005: 19
fi)
(table
12: 37-39;
166
SUMMARY
Fig.
žóa-b). A
very big house no
2,
with side roof
overhangs, was reconstructed in a drawing (Fig. 26c)
(Felczak
2005: 26).
South-East Poland
Superstructures. On the highland territories we
lack almost any direct sources for studies of super¬
structures in settlements. The lowering of site sur¬
face, due to erosion of loess heights, we count to
natural causes of this deficiency. A cultural cause
would be the construction of houses not dug into
earth
-
with a frame construction, but we lack proof
to this. Confirmed is the knowledge of two build¬
ing techniques. In
Niedźwiedź, Kraków
district,
traces of post houses with wattle were found (Bur-
chard
1973: 62
ff), (table
12: 42-43;
Fig.
27).
In
a pit, beside one of them, skeletons of three animals
were discovered (Fig. 43c-d) and considered to be
a hostage sacrifice. This is doubtful though, since
there may be several possible interpretations of this
find. In
Niedźwiedź
and in Stradowski
Zagaj
(Bur-
chard
1973; 1998)
and also in
Słonowice
wooden-
earthen megaliths were found with walls built in
a palisade technique (Tunia
1985; 1990; 1998;
Her-
bich, Tunia
2006),
(Fig. 28b-d). This technique had
probably been used in dwellings.
In settlements on the West of
Wołyń
Highlands,
in
Gródek Nadbużny (Kowalczyk
1956;
Gumiński
1989)
and
Zimno
in Ukraine (Bronicki
et al.
1998)
aggregations of burnt clay debris were found.
W. Gumiński
(1989: 22 ff)
considered them to be
rests of walls fallen to the inside of the quadrangle
houses (table
12:44-45).
These houses were as small
as the houses in the Lowlands (Fig. 29a). No pits
after posts were found and the daub carried traces
of beams and poles. One fragment of the clay cor¬
nice was artistically ornamented (Fig. 29c).
Rubble of some daub with traces of posts was
found in a settlement in Bronicice, in the syncline
of
Nida
River
(Kruk, Milisauskas
1981: 71
if; Mili-
sauskas,
Kruk
1981: 70).
On a loess height Gawroniec in
Ćmielów,
dis¬
trict
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (Podkowińska
1950:
Balcer
1989; 2002),
only the pits remained with
a large amount of daub carrying traces of round poles
(Fig.
30),
flat piles and corner tiles between them
(Fig.
31),
as well as constructions built of narrow
rods pasted with clay, such as ovens and other de¬
vices (Fig.
32, 33,
34b-f). Fragments of burnt clay
with artistic ornaments were found (Fig. 29c, 34a).
In the Southern part of the settlement in
Ćmielów
the pits formed
2
or
3
patterns. On this basis the
horizontal outlines of houses, each taking an area
of about
90-100
m2, were reconstructed (Balcer
1989: 355; 2008)
(Fig.
36).
These houses would
have then been as big as the biggest houses on the
Lowlands (table
12: 37
and
43;
13c). Under their
roof overhangs small pits were localized and inside
them
-
large cellars. Fragments of daub between the
posts with a
Т
-formed cross-section (Fig.
30)
con¬
firm the usage of palisade technique. The roofs of
the houses were probably pitched roofs, as the pic¬
ture on a horn object from
Złota, Sandomierz
dis¬
trict, shows
(Bąbel
1992)
(Fig.
37).
In the settlement in
Zawarża, Pińczów
district (Kul-
czycka-Leciejewiczowa 2002a:
63),
places where the
houses stood were demarcated by the arrangement
of the findings and the kitchen hearth (Fig.
35).
These were probably small houses of light construc¬
tion, maybe smeared with clay in some degree.
Underground architecture. The consistent, loess
soil favoured its development. The classification of
the pits was settled on the basis of numerous ones
found in
Ćmielów
(Balcer
1989: 299-346).
Dis¬
cerned were:
A. singular pits:
Al
-
cylindrical (Fig. 38a;
43
II A); A2
—
widening to the bottom,
trapezoid
in
cross-section (Fig. 38a-c) and in form of a pear
(Fig. 38d-f),
A3 -
syncline pits (Fig.
43
IV).
B. pits of a complex form, consisting of two and
more parts placed on one, two or even three levels.
В
1 -
two-part pits with a silhouette in form of an
eight (Fig. 41a, d); B2
—
intersecting pits into
which upper level bottoms further pits were dug,
forming long storeys in these underground build¬
ings (Fig. 40b-c). Original are double-trapezoid
pits (Fig. 43C,
b
-с)
and double-cylindrical pits
(Fig. 43B).
In the pits: pot holes formed for keeping pots were
found (Fig. 39d), big hollows, stairs (Fig. 39a-c),
niches (Fig. 40a), benches on the bottom (Fig. 38a).
Retained were traces of an open wooden pot
(Fig. 39d); scarce were the traces of hearths laid out
with stones.
In the pits in a form of an eight , known as pits
with stair entries, on some of the stairs rests of ovens
were found, while deeper parts were used as ash-
disposals (Fig. 41a, d).
As a consequence of digging pits in places where
there already were some filled up ones, older ob¬
jects, big aggregations of pits had been formed in
horizontal
stratigraphie
systems. Cave
13
(Podko¬
wińska
1950: 103-110)
consisted of
8
caves (Balcer
1989:
table
1, 164-171);
cave
204
(Podkowińska
1957: 30,
Fig.
7
and
9)
consisted of
4
caves (Balcer
1989: 297-298,
Fig.
3).
These complexes were
erroneously considered to be dwellings
(Podko¬
wińska
o.e.).
SUMMARY
167
Pits and pit complexes occur commonly in set¬
tlements of the culture discussed. They were dis¬
covered in
Zawichost-Podgórze, Sandomierz
district
(Balcer
1967: 330-332,
Fig.
6, 16, 26, 29, 40, 41)
and most often
- 650
pits
-
in Bronocice,
Pińczów
district. On the basis of a laconic description
(Kruk,
Milisauskas
1981: 69-71,
Fig.
3)
we can assert, that
they were analogous to the pits in
Ćmielów
(Fig.
42).
In a settlement in
Zawarża, Pińczów
dis¬
trict,
77
pits were discovered (Kulczycka-Leciejewi-
czowa 2002a:
63-65),
with two-leveled, original
objects with moulds in a form of crescents among
them (Fig. 43b-c). In
Gródek Nadbużny
37
pits were
found (Guminski
1989: 21-22, 32).
A big, two-level
pit with a ruin of an oven (Kowalczyk
1956)
was
considered a dwelling pit house (Fig. 29b). Cylin¬
drical and
trapezoid
pits were also found in a settle¬
ment in
Zimno (Bronicki
et al.
1998).
From a set¬
tlement in Pietrowice
Wielkie,
district
Racibórz (Bu-
kowska-Gedigowa
1980), 73
pits are known. Three
quadrangle pits were considered dwellings with
hearths (Bukowska-Gedigowa
1980: 92-96).
South-Western Poland
On Silesian Lowland and
Sudety
Foreland su¬
perstructures and underground objects were found
in several places (Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
1993:
124
ff;
1996: 168 ff; Romanow 1973;
Wojciechow¬
ski
1973;
Langenheim
1936).
From
Głubczycki
Plateau most known is the settlement in Pietrowi¬
ce
Wielkie, Racibórz
district (Bukowska-Gedigowa
1980).
House remains were found only in two
places. The two houses from Tomicice were inserted
in earth (table
12: 40-41).
One of them had two
moulds and rests of an oven pasted with clay
(Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
1993: 126
ff, Fig.
41)
(Fig. 453-b). Rests of similar houses, perhaps with
roof overhangs, were found in
Głogów-Nosocice
(Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
1993: 127
ff, according
to Langenheim
1936: 170,
Fig.
1)
(Fig. 45c). In the
area of the settlements in
Tomice (Romanow 1973:
46
ff), Janówek
(Wojciechowski
1973: 66
ff) and
Strachów
(Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
1997: 168 ff)
pits connected with houses were found on the area
of household possessions. Hearths constructed of
stones were placed inside them and one of the pits
was lined with broken pottery and pasted with clay.
Burnt clay confirms the existence of roofs made of
branches, placed above the caves.
Radial-Decorated Pottery culture
(2500/2400-
2200-2100
be,
3060/2920-2690/2570
ВС)
Only pits and their complexes were discovered
in the settlements
-
analogous as the ones of the
Funnel Beaker culture:
260
pits in Krakow
Nowa
Huta-Zesławice (Godłowska
1968;
Sochacki
1988);
99
pits in
Kraków Nowa Huta-Pleszowice
(Rook
1971).
Already
E. Rook
(1971: 192)
assumed that
there might have been houses on the free land be¬
tween the pits.
In a publication on the settlement in Grodkowice,
Wieliczka
district (Sochacki
1981: 121,
Fig. 3a) the
placement of several pits makes it possible to re¬
construct the plan of a house (Fig.
46)
with an area
of about
90-100
m2, therefore just like the hypo¬
thetical houses in a settlement known from the Fun¬
nel Beaker culture in
Ćmielów (Fig.
36).
On the site
in
Kraków-
Witkowice II an object
6-а
complex
consisting of several pits
-
has been traditionally
considered to be a pit house (Rydlewski, Valde-
Nowak
1980: 110).
PART IV.
LATE NEOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE
Globular Amphora culture on the Lowland
(3200/2800 - 1700/1650
be,
3970/3590 - 200/1940
ВС)
The societies of this culture have been named
semi-settled
pastoralists
(Kruk,
Milisauskas
1999:
190).
In
Kujawy,
in short-term stage points (Szmyt
1996: 127
ff;
Wiślański
1963: 87)
(Fig.
48-49,
ta¬
ble
14),
only pits with traces of hearths and daub
from the roof construction were left. In
Kruszą
Zamkowa, Inowrocław
district (Czerniak
1990;
Szmyt
1996: 128
f), an object with a horseshoe sil¬
houette (Fig. 47a) and a form of a Mesolithic hut
was discovered (Balcer
1990: 417).
The remains of small post houses with wattle
were found in Lower Silesia
(Wojciechowski
1971:
38ff; Raschke
1932: 26,
Abb.
22;
Wiślański
1970:
280,
Fig.
165;
Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
1993:
146,
Fig.
50)
and on
Kujawy
(Szmyt
1996: 127
ff;
Wiślański
1963: 87)
(Fig.
48-49;
table
14).
Some of
the houses were partially dug into the earth. They
were four- or five-sided, roughly
trapezoid,
two-
parted with a hearth (Fig. 48b). Their original sty¬
listic feature was the sticking out of one corner
(Fig. 48a-b, e; 49a). Houses from Biedrzychowice,
according to A. Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa
(1993:
146)
(Fig. 49a-b) had a timber-walling construction.
A three-storey object from Siciny was dug into the
earth and had two moulds and a hearth pit
(Wojcie¬
chowski
1971: 38),
(Fig. 49c).
The architecture of the Globular Amphora cul¬
ture on the Lowland displays features of Mesolithic
objects, while the technique stems from the Funnel
168
SUMMARY
Beaker culture. Small
trapezoid
houses have a com¬
pletely different character than the houses of the
Danubian
cultures.
Globular Amphora and
Złota
cultures
on the Lesser Poland Plateau
In the settlement of farmers and
pastoralists
in
Mierzanowice, site
1
and
4,
from the transitory
period between the Globular Amphora culture and
Złota
culture, pits and pit complexes were discov¬
ered (Salewicz
1939;
Gardawski,
Miśkiewicz
1958).
On site
4
several pits in two rows were discovered
(Gardawski,
Miśkiewicz
1958: 329,
Fig.
7).
It is pos¬
sible, that they were placed along the house walls,
similarly as in the settlements of the Funnel Beaker
and Radial-Decorated Pottery cultures.
Złota
Culture (the end of III thousand years
ВС)
This syncretistic culture is known mainly from
cemeteries. The co-creators of the great cemetery
in
Złota (Kruk
1973)
have probably built houses but
discovered were only a few pits, rests of hearths and
scarce fragments of burnt clay. Singular pits were
found there (Fig. 50a-b, e-f). Two-leveled pits: one
with a step entry and a cubby hole in a niche
(Fig. 50c), one with a pit in the bottom (Fig.
50
d).
Z. Krzak
had traditionally labeled those two pits
dwelling objects, while other pits were to be utility
and rubbish pits
(Krzak
1976, 65, 68,
Fig.
18)
(Fig. SOa-c, e-f).
Corded Ware Pottery culture
(2800-2700 -
2300-2200
ВС,
according to
Włodarczak
2006: 130)
The great tomb culture, known basically from
numerous cemeteries (Machnik
1979: 339).
On
Polish lands no settlement sites of this culture have
been discovered
(Kruk, Milisauskas
1999: 247-248).
The societies of this culture undoubtedly established
temporary camps with shacks, of which however no
traces survived.
Rzucewo culture
(2400-1700
ВС,
according to
Król
1997: 150)
This culture has been considered a syncretistic
entity, which combined elements of Funnel Beaker,
Globular Amphora and Corded Ware Pottery cul¬
tures. In the reality the societies of these cultures
could independently settle in the same places and
form fisher-hunter settlements, and their remains
could get mixed (Machnik
1979).
The remains of
those objects show architectural features of Funnel
Beaker and Globular Amphora cultures on the Low¬
land, with application of post technique with wat¬
tle. The absence of daub does not confirm wall
pasting with clay. In Rzucewo a multitude of post-
holes in chaotic structures was found, left after walls
and interior appliances such as beds, benches or
shelves. Between them hearths were found
(Żurek
1954;
Król
1997).
J.
Żurek
has discerned only one
house, a rectangle with two hearths
-
so it could
have had two rooms (Fig. 51a). In
Suchacz, Elbląg
district
(Kilián
1954),
the remains of about ten houses
were found and two-three hearths inside each of
them, possibly placed in separate rooms. Some of
the data could give evidence to the existence of front
and side roof overhangs (Fig.
51b-e).
Sub-Neolithic cultures
(3800-3620 - 2120-1970
ВС,
according to
Jóźwiak
2003: 163,
table
25)
On the useless for agriculture territories of Low¬
land, towards the end of Neolithic and beginnings
of the Bronze era, Mesolithic hunters
und
gatherers
were subjects to sub-neolithization
(Jóźwiak
2003:
12-14, 224)
in the period towards the end of
1900
BC (Kukawka
1997: 55,
Fig.
2).
Scarce re¬
mains of
Niemen
culture architecture are occurrence
in Central and Western Poland and traces of them
in Zedmar culture in North-Eastern Poland. Over¬
ground huts of
3
m2 were constructed (Krzyszkowski
1995:
Fig. 52a,
с
-d).
In Korzecznik,
Koło
district,
site
6/7,
basin houses of app.
25
and
15
m2 were
discovered, hearth places (Fig. 50g), post-holes left
after roof-posts and
41
pits (Olszewski
1987;
Ko-
busiewicz
1999: 166,
Fig.
19;
Jóźwiak
2003: 323,
Fig.
23).
Schemes of post-holes and pit placement
in Stobnica-Trzymorgi (Fig. 52k) (Wiklak
1977;
Jóźwiak
2003)
and Swornegacie (Fig. 52i) (Bagnie-
wski
1979;
Kobusiewicz
1999: 166;
Jóźwiak
2003:
323)
were considered post house remains.
In
Chwalim, Zielona Góra
district (Kobusiewicz,
Kabaciński
1999),
in a settlement called aquatic
fishery
(Wiślański
1969: 104),
poles dug into the
lake bed and balks lying horizontally were found.
They were the rests of burnt platforms which ena¬
bled access to the water by crossing over the marsh-
shores in settlements placed over the lakes (Kobu¬
siewicz,
Kabaciński
1999: 73-75).
PART V.
NEOLITHIC DWELLINGS AND UTILITY
CONSTRUCTIONS ON POLISH LANDS
IN THE LIGHT OF FACTS AND IDEAS
The Neolithic architecture was closely related to
the development of the household production and
a sedentary lifestyle. The Neolithic brought the pop¬
ularization of a house. New inventions and object
forms did not oust products with an older genealogy
SUMMARY
169
such as huts, pit houses and basin houses built in
semi-sedentary settlements and encampments related
to the pasturage of domesticated herds away from
the base settlements. The Neolithic pits, developed
underground, with a dwelling appropriation have
also created a new quality. The roof-covered pits
combine elements of superstructures and under¬
ground structures.
Building processes
Within the interpretation frames of architectural
remains bespoken are by the scientists only some
of the constructional activities (Pelisiak
2003:106
f;
Czekaj-Zastawny
2008;
Grygiel
2008: 1884-1909).
Architecture demanded knowledge and high qual¬
ity specialized abilities to assure stability and dura¬
bility of the buildings. Talented people became spe¬
cialists: architects and builders. Their knowledge
was handed on from generation to generation and
spread as a consequence of migrations and other
contacts. Architecture was related first of all to wood
processing, ability to construct buildings and to paste
clay on their walls.
Technical aids of Neolithic architecture are stone
and flint axes, axe-hammers, tranchet-axes and
wooden tools
-
hammers, chocks, levers and spades.
Most common was the post construction with wat¬
tle. Most laborious and material consuming was
building long houses on stilts with the use of small
axes and stone tranchets.
Superstructures demanded organized group work.
Very important was the choice of place for the con¬
struction. The outlines of the houses were demar¬
cated (Grygiel
2008: 1887).
The skeletons of ani¬
mals were considered hostage sacrifices made in
relation to constructing two houses from the Funnel
Beaker cultures. This is not certain, since it is one
of many interpretational possibilities.
The constructional process may be divided into
four phases.
Phase I. Gaining and collecting the raw materi¬
als. It consisted of chopping down the trees, their
transport to the settlements and clay quarrying for
pasting the walls.
Phase II. Preparing parts of the buildings. Mak¬
ing the wooden constructional elements of walls,
roofs and other ones. Digging the ditches and holes
for their fixation.
Phase III. Positioning of the house frameworks.
Connecting and positioning the wall and roof con¬
structions of the buildings. Placing the wattles be¬
tween the poles. Constructing the roofs and connect¬
ing them with the walls was the most difficult
technical undertaking.
Phase IV. Finishing works. Sealing up the walls
and pasting them with clay, roof covering. The
houses were probably ornamented. Only two frag¬
ments of clay ornamented ledges were found and
scarce traces of whitening the walls was left on the
daub.
Phase V. Mending, maintenance and reconstruc¬
tion of the houses. We have evidence of mending
the corner- and central-poles which were dug into
the ground. Possibly the roofs and walls were main¬
tained this way.
Quality of buildings. We posses no data avail¬
able to enable us to know about the end-effect of
construction works. On the basis of often irregular
outlines of elements remaining in the ground we
could talk of a lousy elaboration and a primitive
character of the wooden-ground building, especially
of the small post houses with wattle. We know noth¬
ing on many constructional details and the final
interior decoration of a Neolithic house on our lands.
Ethnological analogies are not decisive here. Con¬
sidering the imperfection of the tools used, the im¬
aginable effects of the work of builders construct¬
ing the monumental long houses of the Linear and
Stroked Pottery Cultures may find our recognition.
The durability of those houses was dependent on
the properties of the material and the construction
used. Buildings of oak-wood were undoubtedly the
strongest. Those from other kinds of wood were
much weaker (see Part I). Usually, though, it is
impossible to determine the kind of wood of which
the house was built. Houses of a post construction
with wattle, most common in Neolithic on Polish
lands, were definitely much weaker than the houses
with walls on stilts.
For the underground constructions probably
wooden spades and smaller shovels were used. The
process of building the underground rooms was also
divided into phases.
Phase I. Digging of the main space and addi¬
tional moulds in its bottom and walls.
Phase II. Building of the interior amenities such
as ovens, hearths, recesses and reservoirs.
Phase III. Finishing works like strengthening and
protecting the walls and bottoms of the pits from
damage. Very seldom we meet traces of pasting the
walls with clay and tiling them with broken pottery
and wattle. Phase III incorporated also activities
known from works with superstructures, like build¬
ing overground roofs for the pits. They were made
of organic materials.
The possibility of forming the caves and the
details of their interior depended from the kind of
subsoil. On suitable for this purpose territories with
170
SUMMARY
loess and clay soils the archeological remaining
inform of inventive abilities of the builders of un¬
derground objects. The interior decoration is un¬
known to us and only sometimes we find the re¬
mains of wall covering.
The development of Neolithic architecture
on Polish territories
In the earlier Neolithic dominating is the archi¬
tecture of Linear Pottery cultures, in the Eneolithic
the architecture of Funnel Beaker cultures and in
the final Neolithic the architecture of all other cul¬
tures. Two lines of architectural development be¬
come distinctive: the one of local and of foreign
origin.
The architecture of foreign origin was introduced
due to the colonization of Polish territories by the
Linear Culture Societies. We can discern two phases
of its development in the early and late period. In
the first phase, in the Linear Pottery culture, domi¬
nating are rectangular post houses with wattle. There
were many roof-piers in its interior. In the second
phase, within the Lengyel-Poglar circle, these houses
were replaced by the construction of
trapezoid
ones
on stilts with spacious interiors. These houses rep¬
resent the highest level of development and the only
distinct style in the Neolithic on Polish lands.
The architecture of local origin developed as
a consequence of the Neolithization process of the
Mcsolithic indigenous societies under the influence
and with participation of assimilated
Danubian
so¬
cieties. On the Lowland, within the circle of the
Funnel Beaker culture, a transition took place from
making huts and basin houses towards building
houses with a light post- construction with wattle.
During the whole period of the Funnel Beaker cul¬
ture the houses represent similar traits and therefore
one could speak of a certain stagnation. On the
Lowland, also in other cultures, it lasted towards the
end of the Neolithic. Progress came with building
on the highlands, in the Funnel Beaker and Radial-
Decorated Pottery cultures, some hypothetical, big¬
ger houses of a more perfected construction on stilts.
In the Sub-Neolithic cultures the Mesolithic tradi¬
tions in architecture hold on, till the very end of the
Neolithic.
The underground constructions were better de¬
veloped in the Southern loess highlands in the
Funnel Beaker, Radial-Decorated Pottery, Globular
Amphora and
Złota
cultures. The underground object
had, maybe not exclusively but most often, a utility
appropriation. They were not meant for living in
them. On the territories of the Highland loess they
show a high level of invention and performance.
The dwelling and utility architecture on Polish
lands in the Neolithic was an important element of
the material culture. It was one of the main adap¬
tive means of the farmers,
pastoralists,
hunter-gath¬
erers of a Mesolithic genealogy, which they used to
adapt to the environment. In later explorations of
the architecture the author postulates using the col¬
lected sources already known in a wider sense and
perfection of the examination methods used on
the sites.
The annex to this work shows the results of an
attempt to determine hypothetically the material
consumption in Neolith constructions. This concerns
the number of trees used as basic material while
constructing a house. Trunk fragments, in whole or
cut in half, were meant to be part of the walls and
roof pillars, while the branches made for other house
elements and different objects. It has been assumed
that in every post hole there earlier was a post of
3-5
m
length, while one tree gave a trunk of about
10
m
length. The number of holes was multiplied
by the supposed post lengths and divided by
10.
Then the hypothetical average number of trees nec¬
essary for constructing different sized houses was
assessed.
The construction of long linear culture houses,
particularly those constructed by implementing
wooden palisade techniques (as in the
Lengyel
cul¬
ture), was most material consuming. Depending on
the size of a house, the type of applied construction
technique and the use of full-volume log or
-
alter¬
natively
-
half-volume log, the number of trees pre¬
sumably used oscillated from
15
up to
137
(as in
case of a big house with palisade walls).
In the Funnel Beaker, Globular Amphora, Rzu-
cewo and
Niemen
cultures as few as two to four¬
teen trees were needed for a small post-with-wattle
house construction (table
17-21).
Hypothetical re¬
sults of this determination attempt, even if over- or
underestimated, still give some idea about the ma¬
terial consumption in Neolith constructions, which
is not entirely lacking in credibility.
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title_full | Budownictwo mieszkalne i gospodarcze w neolicie ziem Polski Bogdan Balcer |
title_fullStr | Budownictwo mieszkalne i gospodarcze w neolicie ziem Polski Bogdan Balcer |
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