Dąbki: where hunters met farmers

1/2. Vessel fragment from Hungary. Photo by A. Czekaj-Zastawny.

Dąbki (West Pomerania) is a unique place, offering an insight into the social relations 7-6 thousand years ago, between hunters-gatherers and farmers and growers. The site is unique in the whole of Europe. Remains of human settlements from many millennia ago were discovered in Dąbki, located 30 km north-east of Koszalin, in the 1970s. 

However, only the study started in 2003 as part of a new international Polish-German project led by Prof. Jacek Kabaciński of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS in Poznań and Prof. Thomas Terberger of the University of Greifswald provided data that electrified the researchers studying the Mesolithic and the Neolithic period in Europe. The place was inhabited from 5100 to 3600 BC. The first locally made ceramic objects - vessels with pointed bottoms - come from layers from around 4800 BC. Originally, the settlement was located on an island on the lake near the Baltic Sea.

"In the settlement layers we also found fragments of about 70 pottery pieces attributed to a variety Neolithic agricultural archaeological cultures, [...] naukawpolsce.pap.pl  /  Via Archaeologica.org

Link 2: Relations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Pomerania (Poland) with Neolithic cultures of central Europe