Between History and Archaeology : papers in honour of Jacek Lech

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The studies on the sickle-shaped, bifacially formed knives showed that the crescent-like forms (with the maximum width around the middle of the specimen) found in Lesser Poland should be associated with the people of the Trzciniec and/ or Lausatian culture. Some premises seem to indicate for the possibility of connecting the relatively narrow specimens with well-defined bases as well as those with base similar to distal tip with a straight or concave inner edge (the latter ones show similarities to crescent-like forms) with the ‘Lausatian’ culture settlements. In direct vicinity of Świeciechów flint deposits, at a place called Kopiec, a workshop of bifacial forms was discovered, at which – in the context of the Lausatian culture pottery – around 70 crescent-like sickle shaped knives in various stages of completion and state of preservation were found. At least 20 ‘pottery’ sites of this culture are known from earlier and later verified surface surveys (Polish Archaeological Record). These sites are located within on the area of in direct vicinity of grey flint, i.e. Świeciechów and Gościeradów flint, outcrop

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