Stanisław Wilk

• PhD
• The Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra

Wilk S. 2014. An elite burial from the Copper Age: Grave 8 at the cemetery of the Lublin- Volhynian culture at Site 2 in Książnice, Świętokrzyskie Province. Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 9, 209–258 The paper describes an inhumation burial (Grave 8) discovered at the cemetery of the Lublin- Volhynian culture at Site 2 in Książnice, Świętokrzys...

This paper presents four Złota Culture (ZC) niche graves from site 2 in Książnice, and discusses the chronology of the cemetery based on both radiocarbon dates obtained for all the burials and analysis of the ceramics. Separate articles published in this volume deal with the anthropological, archaeozoological and palaeobotanical analyses of the pre...

The Early Eneolithic period in Lesser Poland is represented by the Lublin-Volhynian culture and the Wyciąże-Złotniki group. For both of them, the main cultural references were the Middle Copper Age groups from the Carpathian Basin (the Bodrogkeresztúr, the Hunyadihalom-Lažňany, the Balaton-Lasinja cultures, as well as the Ludanice, and the Bajč-Ret...

The Lublin-Volhynian culture retouched blade daggers are unique forms of flint tools in the Eneolithic in Poland. They are most often found in male graves, around the chest or skull, as signs of prestige and high status of men possessing them. Anna Zakościelna also suggested that such kind of tools did not served utilitarian function. Contrary to p...

The subject of this article is connections from Carpathian Basin in the Lublin-Volhynian (LV-C) culture – the first Eneolithic culture in Lesser Poland. Comparative analysis of the pottery from the LV-C child grave no 7 in Książnice (Lesser Poland) points towards the Hunyadihalom-Lažňany horizon as the mainstream source of analogies; and, according...

The genomic landscape of Stone Age Europe was shaped by multiple migratory waves and population replacements, but different regions do not all show similar patterns. To refine our understanding of the population dynamics before and after the dawn of the Neolithic, we generated and analyzed genomic sequence data from human remains of 56 individuals...

The genomic landscape of Stone Age Europe was shaped by multiple migratory waves and population replacements, but different regions do not all show the same patterns. To refine our understanding of the population dynamics before and after the dawn of the Neolithic, we generated and analyzed genomic sequence data from human remains of 56 individuals...

Objective We aim to identify maternal genetic affinities between the Middle to Final Neolithic (3850–2300 BC) populations from present-day Poland and possible genetic influences from the Pontic steppe. Materials and methods We conducted ancient DNA studies from populations associated with Złota, Globular Amphora, Funnel Beaker, and Corded Ware cul...

The third millennium BCE was a period of major cultural and demographic changes in Europe that signaled the beginning of the Bronze Age. People from the Pontic steppe expanded westward, leading to the formation of the Corded Ware complex and transforming the genetic landscape of Europe. At the time, the Globular Amphora culture (3300–2700 BCE) exis...

Trapezoidal flint microliths have been attributed to various early agricultural cultures in Central Europe. They are found in both settlements and cemeteries. The cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynian Culture in Książnice, Site 2, one of the two biggest necropolises of younger Danubian cultures in southern Poland, has provided the greatest number of tr...

From around 4,000 to 2,000 BC the forest-steppe north-western Pontic region was occupied by people who shared a nomadic lifestyle, pastoral economy and barrow burial rituals. It has been shown that these groups, especially those associated with the Yamnaya culture, played an important role in shaping the gene pool of Bronze Age Europeans, which ext...

The aim of this article is to define the character of the relations between Lesser Poland and the world of Copper Age civilization in the Carpathian Basin in the second half of the 5th and the first half of the 4th millennium BC. Based on the analysis of the two largest investigated necropolises of the younger Danubian cultures in Lesser Poland (Kr...

The subject of this article is the fi rst eneolithic cremation burial in south-eastern Poland which was discovered on the cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynia culture at site 2 in Książnice, voiv. świętokrzyskie. Grave 14 was unearthed while exploring the western part of the necropolis in August 2012. The burial pit, 122 x 75 cm, was shaped like a recta...

This article presents a typological and physical metallurgy analysis of copper artifacts found in child grave (no 7) at the Lublin-Volhynian culture cemetery in Książnice (Lesser Poland). The burial, dating to approx. 4050–3940 BC, contains a rich set of copper jewellery: a massive earring, small earring, bracelet - made of copper wire, and two bea...

This paper presents a metallographic analysis of copper artifacts from an extraordinary Polish cemetery of Lublin–Volhynian culture dated 4000–3800 BC (Wilk in Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia, 2014, pp. 209–243). The Książnice necropolis, Busko-Zdro´j county located in South Poland, is characterized by an unprecedented collection of prestigious...

This paper presents a metallographic analysis of copper artifacts from an extraordinary Polish cemetery of Lublin–Volhynian culture dated 4000–3800 BC (Wilk in Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia, 2014, pp. 209–243). The Książnice necropolis, Busko-Zdrój county located in South Poland, is characterized by an unprecedented collection of prestigious...

The subject of this article is the first eneolithic cremation burial in south-eastern Poland which was discovered on the cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynia culture at site 2 in Książnice, voiv. świętokrzyskie. Grave 14 was unearthed while exploring the western part of the necropolis in August 2012. The burial pit, 122 x 75 cm, was shaped like a rectan...

The subject of the analysis in this article are three skeletal graves of the Mierzanowice culture, excavated in the seasons of 2008 and 2010 at site 2 in Książnice, Świętokrzyskie province. From the graves discussed above we have one radiocarbon date, obtained from grave 1 MC, which is 3715±35BP. The burial inventory is relatively rich, consisting...