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Stryczowice, site VII, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski district. Site location. Topographic map, map emblem Waśniów 144.41. Graphic design B. Sałacińska
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The cemetery of the Funnel Beaker culture at Stryczowice is situated in the Sandomierz Upland region. Three megalithic tombs and a flat cemetery were discovered and examined. The most well-preserved tomb is about 30 m long, and its plan has a trapezoidal shape. Its stone settings formed a kind of dry-stone wall – a phenomenon on a European scale. I...
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... megalithic cemetery of the southeastern group of the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) at Stryczowice is one of several objects of this type situated in the Sandomierz Upland region. The site is situated in the peak zone ( Fig. 1) of a loess upland stretching between the valley of the Garbatka stream (in the south) and the Pokrzywianka stream (in the northeast), at a local, exposed culmination, on an elevation of 281.60 m. (50°52'22''N 21°17'33''). A picturesque landscape extends from the site, offering excellent conditions for an unobstructed 360-degree view, ...
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... other cist, dug below the original surface level was built of flat sandstone slabs, less massive than those of the overground one. The internal dimensions of the cist were 0.9×2.1 m, with a height of about 30-40 cm (Fig. 10). It was only in such a cist that the deceased was buried, probably lying extended on his back, and oriented along a SW-NE axis, with the head to the SW (Fig. 11). Unfortunately, the skeleton preserved only in the form of fragments of the lower limb bones and some bones of a very massive cranium -of a male, adultus or maturus (Wróbel ...
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... surface level was built of flat sandstone slabs, less massive than those of the overground one. The internal dimensions of the cist were 0.9×2.1 m, with a height of about 30-40 cm (Fig. 10). It was only in such a cist that the deceased was buried, probably lying extended on his back, and oriented along a SW-NE axis, with the head to the SW (Fig. 11). Unfortunately, the skeleton preserved only in the form of fragments of the lower limb bones and some bones of a very massive cranium -of a male, adultus or maturus (Wróbel 2006). Unfortunately, the burial was devoid of grave ...
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... was laid with his head to the NW; the children were laid alternately -one with its head to the SE, the second to the NW. On the other hand, the burials deposited between the central grave and the tomb face, as well as the one in the antechamber were oriented on a SW-NE axis. In the double burial of adults and the single burial in the ante- fig. 11. Stryczowice, site VII, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski district. Central grave (feature 38) -a burial deposited into the in-ground cist. Photo B. Sałacińska chamber (both burials destroyed by a rifle-pit) the dead were buried according to the orientation of the central grave, perpendicular to the stone settings of the tomb (Fig. ...
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... Matraszek and Sałaciński 2003; fig. 8). The burial pits each had a length of about 2 m, and a width of about 90 cm. The construction of the burial pits consisted of a low cist made of flat stone slabs (mainly sandstones, sometimes limestones). They were covered with a compact, multi-layered stone pavement with a thickness up to about 50 cm (Figs. 12, ...
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... side at the height of the forearm (the hand was not preserved), lay flint tools (a retouched blade, a sickle inset of Volhynian flint and a flake of Volhynian flint). At the left hip (pelvis) a four-legged collared flask was placed, while by the right leg (at the height of the femur), a quartzite object (probably a quartz fire-starter) was found (Fig. 14). However, in grave No. 21 -the most destroyed feature in the flat cemetery -a collared flask and a retouched blade of Volhynian flint (Fig. 15) were found, laid probably next to the head of the deceased (only a few fragments of the skull have survived). Moreover, in grave No. 7A, a large number of hematite lumps (about 1 kg) were found ...
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... of Volhynian flint). At the left hip (pelvis) a four-legged collared flask was placed, while by the right leg (at the height of the femur), a quartzite object (probably a quartz fire-starter) was found (Fig. 14). However, in grave No. 21 -the most destroyed feature in the flat cemetery -a collared flask and a retouched blade of Volhynian flint (Fig. 15) were found, laid probably next to the head of the deceased (only a few fragments of the skull have survived). Moreover, in grave No. 7A, a large number of hematite lumps (about 1 kg) were found laid down intentionally, and arranged above the head of the deceased (B. Matraszek, S. Sałaciński 2003;2006, 241-243, Figs. 10-13). A similar ...
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... site V, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski district (Bąbel 2006), Czyżów Szlachecki, site 13, Sandomierz district (Florek 2008, 101), Święcica, barrow I, Sandomierz district ( Szeliga and Florek 2007, 41, 43, fig. 5;Florek 2008, 101), and Złota, site 6, Sandomierz district (Florek 2008, 101). Judging by the megalithic cemeteries that have thus far been located, the population of the southeastern FBC community chose elevated places on the upper parts of valley slopes (e.g. ...
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