JANÁK, Vratislav. The possible participation of autochthonous Mesolithic inhabitants in the Neolithisation of Upper Silesia. In Paweł Valde-Nowak, Krzysztof Sobczyk, Marek Nowak, Jarosław Źrałka. Multas per gentes et multa per saecula. 1st ed. Kraków: Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 2018, p. 369 - 374. ISBN 978-83-948382-3-2.
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Original name The possible participation of autochthonous Mesolithic inhabitants in the Neolithisation of Upper Silesia.
Name in Czech Možná účast autochtonních mezolitických obyvatel v neolitizaci Horního Slezska.
Authors JANÁK, Vratislav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 1. vyd. Kraków, Multas per gentes et multa per saecula, p. 369 - 374, 6 pp. 2018.
Publisher Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 60102 Archaeology
Country of publisher Poland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/18:A0000385
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN 978-83-948382-3-2
Keywords (in Czech) Horní Slezsko; neolitizace; autochtonní demografická složka; možná akulturace; afinita k rybolovu
Keywords in English Upper Silesia; Neolithisation; autochthonous demographic component; possible acculturation; affinity to fishing
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Abstract
Many reflections about the relation between Mesolithic autochthones and the peasant population at the beginning of the Neolithic in Central Europe have already been made. As far as the area of Upper Silesia is concerned, it is widely accepted that the Neolithic was bought to this area by the oldest peasant settlers of the Linear Pottery culture (LPC). Around a half of the 6th millennium BC, the Linear Pottery culture people inhabited a traditional settlement area of Upper Silesian loesses. Although these areas also became well-known Mesolithic localities a long time ago, there is a lack of any evidence or even indicia to put the LPC into correlation with the settling of the oldest peasants. Currently, the significant indication of any potential acculturation of the Mesolithic inhabitants seem to be numerous discoveries of stone net sinkers in certain localities of the Linear Pottery culture on the banks of the Opava mid-river and more recently also in the Odra Gate Corridor. It is a singular phenomenon of the Neolithic in Central Europe (Banát on the border of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkan is the closest contemporary area with a higher number of discoveries of these sinkers). The concept of the esolithic origin of some clans or families in Linear settlements on the southern edge of the Upper Silesian region gains gnificant relevance. On the other hand, there are numerous counter-indications of this interpretation. Fishing with nets and stone sinkers from rubble in the Mesolithic in Upper Silesia is impossible to prove or even presume – there is still a lack of relevant discoveries. We cannot unequivocally answer the question of prospective participation of local Mesolithics in the creation and establishment of the Upper Silesian facies of the Linear Pottery culture.
Abstract (in Czech)
Do Horního Slezska přinesli neolit nejstarší zemědělci kultury s lineární keramikou LnK a okolo poloviny 6. tisíciletí BC obsadili tradiční sídelní území a hornoslezských spraších. Je možné, že na tom nějakým způsobem participovala též autochtonní populace, ale přímé důkazy o akulturaci mezolitických lovců a sběračů scházejí. Nejvýznamnější indicií pro případnou participaci Mesolithiců se zdají početné nálezy kamenných zátěží rybářských sítí na některých lokalitách LnK na březích střední Opavy a dočasně také v koridoru Oderské brány. Jde o fenomén v rámci střední Evropy ojedinělý a je možné, že afinita některých rodů či rodin na lineárních sídlištích ukazuje na mezolitický původ.
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