Thursday, August 13, 2015

Beaker Media Day in Northeast Poland

The Suprasl site in Northeastern Poland continues to yield artifacts and now possibly burnt human remains.  So far, several fine vessels, ornaments, flints and a dagger have been found.  The photos are from the media day, August 12.  The Suprasl site dates from the second half of the third millennium (2500-2000).

Fot. Ewelina Andrzejewska via Akadera FM

The Beakers of Poland are an interesting frontier group being, at least in the Southeast, a physically differentiated group.  (Budziszewski, Haduch, Wlodarczak, 2003) Their heads have flattened occipitals, their faces are squat and their bodies are large.

Fot. Ewelina Andrzejewska via Akadera FM
It is tempting to see some correspondences between their deliberately destroyed mortuary pottery and some of the customs and superstitions of pre-modern Europe.

fot. Anatol Chomicz via Wspolczena.pl
According to Adam Wawrusiewicz from the Museum of Podlasie in Bialystok, it would appear that the Beakers were being buried on a holy mountain and that their involvement in the Suprasl valley was a sort of access corridor to the river Ros, where important prehistoric flint mines were located.

fot. Wojciech Wojtkielewicz via Poranny.pl

Here's some links to the articles from the media day.  [Poranny], [Wspolczena.pl], [Akadera FM]


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8 comments:

  1. la señora bibiloniAugust 13, 2015 at 2:54 PM

    I read your description of the Polish Bell Beakers and I thought of tenor Piotr Beczala... kind of flat face, flat occipital and born in the south of Poland. (Photo in http://www.wroclaw.pl/files/cmsdocuments/4623359/Piotr-Beczala-31.jpg)

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    1. bellbeakerbloggerAugust 13, 2015 at 7:04 PM

      Certainly modern Euros inherited some traits from this ancestry, maybe a lot

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    2. la señora bibiloniAugust 14, 2015 at 8:59 PM

      Or maybe it just happened by chance - the fact remains that I'll never be able to watch again the suave Piotr on the opera stage without picturing him holding a beaker full of beer!

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    3. bellbeakerbloggerAugust 14, 2015 at 9:30 PM

      Ha

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  2. UnknownAugust 18, 2015 at 9:38 PM

    Thank you for this blog. I check in regularly. Thought I'd share a link showing a few more pictures of the grave goods that were found: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2015/08/bronze-age-urn-burial-found-in-north.html?m=1

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    1. bellbeakerbloggerAugust 18, 2015 at 10:27 PM

      Thanks Mandy, I appreciate it. The link has some great pics. Thanks for sending.

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