Knives with full tang handle construction from the Luboszyce culture

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Agata Andrzejewska, Karol Demkowicz
KnIvES wITh full Tang handlE ConSTRuCTIon
fRom ThE luboSzyCE CulTuRE
Ke y w o r d s :       
Elbian circle
Sł o w a k l u c z o w e :

Although the distinctive character of the archaeological material found
between the middle Elbe and middle Oder basins was recognized as early
              
    Kultura luboszycka między Łabą a Odrą w II–IV w.
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
in the graves of the Luboszyce culture1. In fact, this information concerns
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blades of these artifacts varies and is generally consistent with the forms seen in
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from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw who kindly gave us access to the
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           
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University of Warsaw) 
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            


  

–
––  

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
          
     –       
3, but they are also often in grave contexts of
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 – 
           
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3
1998.
4 

          



9
Knives with full tang handle construction...


  
It could be easily concluded then, that the mentioned artifacts are one of many

culture. In general, the dating of knives with full tang in Scandinavia as well as
    
     

         


–5. One of them however stands out of this


       





laboratory analysis6.

– the external one



– 


all, the full tang should be regarded as a strictly structural characteristic, having
      
5
6
             
  – 
            
           


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
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

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
   

  

should not be linked by any means with their function.
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Katedra Historii Sztuki
ul. Uniwersytecka 3
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     Groty broni drzewcowej o cechach
skandynawskich w kulturze luboszyckiej   

     Der Opferplatz von Nydam. Die Funde aus den
älteren Grabungen: Nydam-I und Nydam-II
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Knives with full tang handle construction...
Anmerkungen zu Waffenbeigabensitte und Waffenformen während
der jüngeren Römischen Kaiserzeit und der Völkerwanderungszeit in
Mitteldeutschland, 
   Badania na cmentarzysku w Grabicach, woj. Zielonogórskie
w 1975 roku
Kultura luboszycka między Łabą a Odrą w II–IV wieku, Ossolineum,
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Engelhart C. (1869), Vimose fundet, 
Die späte Kaiserzeit, Heimatkunde für den Kreis Liebenwerda,

   Illerup Ådal. Die Gürtel. Bestandteile und Zubehör, 

Das Gräberfeld bei Sadersdorf, Kr. Guben, und ändere Niederlausitzer
Fundstellen der La-Téne und provinzialrömischen Zeit, 

Leube A. (1975), Die römische Kaiserzeit im Oder-Spree-Gebiet

Leube A. (1985), Zur Niederlausitzer Gruppe der römischen Kaiserzeit, 

Das germanische Gräberfeld von Zauschwitz, Kr. Borna

   Ejsbøl I. Waffenopferfunde des 4.-5. Jahrh. Nach Chr. 

Schulz W. (1931), Ost- und Elbgermanen in spätromischer Zeit in den Ostkreisen
der Provinz Sachsen,      

   Zwischen Wilhelmsaue und Lampertheim. Bemerkungen zur
Burgundenproblematik, 
  Das jungkaiserzeitliche Gräberfeld von Wilhelmsaue in
Brandenburg, 

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of Warsaw
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Knives with full tang handle construction...
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Grave 3
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Eggers, fragment of an iron needle, clay whorl, clay double conic vessel, shards of
another clay vessel
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           
University of Warsaw
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