From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 666
Date: 1999-12-23
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From: Mark Odegard
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Bronocice pot.
Gerry Reinhart-Waller writes to Piotr
Have you posted to Lucyna on the Bronocice pot? Her date of 3400BC
(2775+-50) was from a published article by Janusz Kruk and S.
Milisauskas entitled _Rise and fall of neolithic Societies_ (1999)
Mark: I remember reading a similarly sensational date. This would put it
in the right place at the right time for the start of the Globular
Amphora culture (3400-2800), though its attributed to TRB
(Trichterbecher, funnel beaker) culture (4500-2700), which brackets it.
This really is one of the very oldest depictions of a wheeled vehicle
anywhere.
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It's THE very oldest one known so far rather than 'one of'. It's some
two hundred years older than the Uruk wagon pictograms. Only the
Flintbeck cart ruts are still older.
I've just bought the book by Kruk and Milisauskas. It's in Polish but
there is an English summary of all the chapters. The book is really
fascinating. It is not about the Neolithic in general but about the
cultures of Central Europe, from Linear Pottery to Corded Ware. It
covers some of the topics we've discussed, such as Funnel Beaker wheeled
vehicles and the Neolithic salt industry.
Piotr
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Gerry here: I also tried to acquire the book by Kruk & Milisauskas
from Amazon.com both US and UK but neither place listed it. Is the
title actually _Rise and fall of neolithic societies_? Could you
perhaps recommend a place where I might order it?
Thank you,
Gerry