This paper, in an abridged form, presents materials obtained from a cemetery of the Lusatian Culture at Januszewice site 14, Opoczno district. Its main aim is to try and interpret the cemetery’s spatial organization, as well as its presentation in comparison to other funeral sites with similar, specic burial forms. The cemetery at Januszewice belongs to a group of cemeteries with mixed burial rituals. Here, urn and pit graves have been recorded (together 33 objects). All the graves were very poorly furnished and badly damaged. Only the lower parts of vessels and bottoms of grave pits have been recorded. No metal artifacts have been found, and anthropological material was very poor. The Chronology of the discussed site should be connected with the Hallstatt D. It was located in an area of different inuences of the upper Silesian – Little Poland, central Poland and east Great Poland groups.
Due to availability of laser scanning results, new possibilities have emerged for studying areas overgrown with forests. On the border of Konin and Mogilno Districts, 13 new burial grounds have been discovered, with Kuyavian tombs representing the Funnel Beaker culture. The paper describes two of them – site 27 in Kownaty and site 24 in Góry. The burial ground in Góry is situated within the planned “Ościsłowo” open-pit lignite mine. It has been decided that the burial ground would be entered in the register of monuments of the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship so as to ensure its protection. Surveys were carried out to verify and delineate the boundaries of the site. As a result, 14 Kuyavian tombs, arranged in 4 groups, were identified in total. In addition, the finds included 1 barrow, a settlement and a settlement trace of the Lusatian culture in the form of a golden ornament. The burial ground in Góry is the last so well preserved burial ground with non-chamber graves of people of the Funnel Beaker culture in the eastern part of Greater Poland.
A scale of recently made rescue excavations enabled large areas to be uncovered and thus developed our understanding of the functional and spatial organization of settlements, previously studied to a small degree compared to cemeteries. Among recently excavated sites, including the discussed settlement, fenced structures have prompted great interest owing to their unique spatial organization. The focus of this paper is on the interpretation of the site when compared with other settlements containing similar spatial structures discovered in SW Poland.
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