Abstract
Barbara Burchard and studies on the chronology of the Funnel Beaker culture in Lesser Poland
Highlights
Of crucial importance to Polish taxonomic and chronological research concerning the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) was Konrad Jażdżewski’s work, published in the 1930s (Jażdżewski 1936)
In that period and in subsequent decades there was a lack of valuable publications of sufficiently large collections of Middle Eneolithic materials originating from regular excavations, despite the awareness of an abundance of finds in the loess uplands of Lesser Poland
They concerned the following: (1) the origins of the FBC in Lesser Poland, (2) the process known as Badenisation, and (3) the reception of the megalithic burial rite
Summary
Of crucial importance to Polish taxonomic and chronological research concerning the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) was Konrad Jażdżewski’s work, published in the 1930s (Jażdżewski 1936) It was important for Lesser Poland, an area included in the southeastern (or Lesser Poland) group of this culture, which was distinguished at that. It continued to influence the nature of research carried out from the 1960s onward, in acceptance of many assumptions of the “new archaeology” This is true with respect to settlement studies in the Lesser Poland loess uplands, which included the development of models of the Neolithic economy (primarily: Kruk 1973; 1980). There is little doubt that, in her studies, Barbara Burchard managed to highlight certain crucial problems related to these issues They concerned the following: (1) the origins of the FBC in Lesser Poland, (2) the process known as Badenisation, and (3) the reception of the megalithic burial rite.
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