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Warsaw Studies in Archaeology, vol. 16
Subneolithic Communities in the Basin of the Narew and the Lower and Middle Bug
Sylwia Domaradzka
- Pages: approx. 528 p.
- Size:216 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:322 b/w, 29 col., 51 tables b/w., 17 maps b/w
- Language(s):English, Polish
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61960-6
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Monograph presenting hunter-gatherers group from Central and Western Europe and their transformations under the influence of the Neolithic agrarian and pastoralist world, especially the westernmost cultural unit of the “Forest”-Eastern European Subneolithic with its Neman Culture.
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BIO
Dr Sylwia Domaradzka is a specialist in the field of Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age research in Central and Eastern Europe. Her research interests include issues related to the Subneolithic communities from their western branch, identified with hunter-gatherers group making pottery. She conducts extensive research on the networking, connections and transformations of these communities and their relations with the Neolithic agrarian cultures.
Summary
The book explores the Subneolithic communities that existed in Central and Eastern Europe between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (c. 3500–1800 BC), with a particular focus on the hunter-gatherer and fishing communities who made use of pottery. Archaeologists focusing on this period have long-questioned why these communities adopted ceramics, and yet rejected other technological advances from this period, among them agriculture and pastoralism. This volume seeks to engage with this key question through the analysis of archaeological sources from Poland, including the Bug and Narew River basins. Drawing on the latest research from both Central and Eastern Europe, as well as from Eastern Asia, this far-reaching volume argues that, in contrast to common opinion, the adoption of ceramics by these communities did not occur through contacts with agricultural cultures and offers a new understanding of the Subneolithic communities of the central and eastern European lowlands.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Territorial Coverage
Chronological Coverage
Chapter 2. History and State of Research
Chapter 3. Characteristics of the Natural Environment in the Basins of the Bug and Narew Rivers
Physical and Geographical Location
Natural Environment
Chapter 4. Taxonomic Perspective
Characteristics of Source Materials
Chronological Systematization of Sources
Chapter 5. Development of Subneolithic Communities in the Bug and Narew River Basins
Littoral ‘Stream’
Continental ‘Stream’
Chapter 6. Subneolithic Communities of the Bug and Narew Basins against the Background of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Transformations
Chronological Perspective
Settlement Structure and Development
Economic Rules and Strategies
Chapter 7. Summary
Catalogue of Archaeological Sites
Maps
Plates
Works Cited
