THE STORY OF ONE BURIAL...

Abstract

In brief, the article tells the story of the research on the famous Mesolithic grave in Janisławice – from its discovery in 1937 and the monographic publication of Maria Chmielewska in 1954; through the repeated analyses and verifying field studies of K. Cyrek in the years 1978–1995, and a number of expert analyses that involved modern technologies; lastly, to the exposition organised in the State Archaeological Museum (PMA) presenting, among others, the most recent findings about the assemblage from Janisławice. Many years of studies conducted by over ten researchers of various specialties verified the previous findings, confirming them for the most part. Janisławice can be interpreted as an isolated burial of a man about 30 years of age who most likely, hunting aside, was also obtaining chocolate flint in the older stage of the Atlantic period.