Pots: the key to the type-chronology of the Lublin-Volhynian culture ceramics

The Lublin-Volhynian Culture is the oldest community representing the Early Eneolithic socio-economic modelin Lesser Poland. Together with the Wyciąże-Złotniki group, it has been the subject of a multifaceted analysis aspart of the National Science Centre’s project, ‘Adaptation of Transcarpathian cultural patterns of the Copper Age in Younger Danubian cultures in the Lesser Poland Upland,’ which was carried out between 2018 and 2023. A significant element of this research was a typological and chronological analysis of the ceramics of the Lublin-Volhynian culture. It showed that pots show apparent variability in form and ornamentation over time. The clarification of the absolute chronology of the Lublin-Volhynian culture enabled the separation of a group of graves containing pots, whose chronology was defined by AMS dates. These became the base for a pattern of variation in the forms and decoration of the pots. The resulting pattern corresponds to the general dynamics of development of the discussed unit between c. 4050-3700 BC.