Plants of the Funnel Beaker culture in Poland

Nowak M., Lityńska-Zając M., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Mueller-Bieniek A., Kapcia M., Kotynia K. 2020. Plants of the Funnel Beaker culture in Poland. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 72/1, 87-114. Neolithic communities appeared in Polish territories around the mid-6th millennium BC. However, until the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, they inhabited only small enclaves. This situation changed within the first half of the 4th millennium BC, when the most of the Polish territories became settled by Neolithic groups at-tributed to the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB). There is a fairly large amount of data on plants cultivated by TRB people. Based on this, one can conclude that mainly Triticum dicoccon , T. monococcum and Hordeum vulgare were grown. T. dicoccon and T. monococcum could be sown together. It should be noted that large amounts of weeds typical of cereal fields have been recorded. It is much more difficult to determine the economic importance of other cultivars because of their low numbers. Nevertheless, the TRB inventories contain remains of Pisum sativum , Lens culinaris , Linum usitatissimum and Papaver somniferum .