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In the area of the Podolsk Upland and the Upper Dniester in the second half of the 5 th and first half of the 4 th millennia BC the communities of three Eneolithic cultures periodically co-existed: Tripolye (stages BII, CI), Malice (late phase) and Lublin-Volhynian (classical phase). For these cultures, the mentioned area was a peripheral zone of ranges upon which various mutual relations, manifested in ceramic and flint production, took place. The most explicit evidence of intercultural relations are manifested in the pottery production, when the technical and stylistic traditions are diffused among culturally different communities, living on the same or neighbouring territories. To identify the nature of the intercultural relationship, an analysis of selected ceramic collections was carried out, taking into account the successive stages of production: raw material selection, ceramic mass preparation, forming vessels along with surface treatment, decorating and firing. We also used petrographic analyzes and chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine the organic components of the ceramic painting of the Tripolye and Lublin-Volhynian cultures.

The article is an attempt to characterize and assess the intensity of far-reaching, intercultural contacts of the LBK community from the Sandomierz Upland and its northern foreland with the Eastern Linear cultural groups from the northeastern part of the Carpathian Basin. The basis for these considerations was the discovery of diagnostic material (pottery, obsidian products) from the Sandomierz region -in particular, from one of the largest inventories of this type in the Vistula basin: the settlement site Tominy 6. Important data in this context were also provided by products made of Chocolate and Świeciechów flints from the Świętokrzyskie Mountains Region discovered within the Transcarpathian zone. The entire collection of findings reveals the previously unknown and very large-scale bilateral, intercultural relations between the LBK communities of the Sandomierz settlement cluster and the younger phase of Alföld-LBK groups, especially the Bükk culture, settled in eastern Slovakia, or more precisely in the Košice Valley and East-Slovak Lowland.

The subject of this article is a hoard of Volhynian flint blades discovered in Świątniki. The collection encompasses 12 macrolithic Volhynian flint blades. The blades cannot be refitted together. The morphological and technological features of the blades suggest that they were produced with the use of indirect percussion or the lever pressure technique. The traceological analysis did not reveal any utilization patterns. Only slight polishing traces were recorded, perhaps resulting from keeping/transporting the blades in a wrapping made of light material. The makers of the blades should be associated with the populations of the Trypilian, Lublin-Volhynian, or Funnel Beaker culture, which does not indicate unequivocally the cultural attribution of the hoard.

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