Materials of Neolithic cultures from site 2 in Zagórze, Małopolskie Voivodeship

The article is devoted to the presentation of pottery and sunken features of Neolithic cultures discovered at site 2 in Zagórze. The rich materials were acquired as a result of large-scale rescue excavations on the A4 motorway on the Wieliczka-Bochnia loess. 67,948 fragments of pottery were excavated, deposited in the fills of 1237 Neolithic features or in the so-called cultural layer. This material has been classified within the Linear Pottery culture (mainly its older Zofipole phase), the Malice culture (classical phase) and the Lengyel culture (Pleszów and Modlnica phase). On the said site, 11 long houses of the Linear Pottery culture and 4 houses of the Malice culture were discovered, while large clay pits, containing numerous ceramic materials, were connected with the Lengyel culture. Different ways of organising the settlement space by the inhabitants of these cultures were established