Ritual ceramics from Early Iron Age funerary contexts at Domasław, Lower Silesia, Poland
Anna Józefowska·Joanna Kałużna‐Czaplińska·Joanna Sekulska-Jaworska·Jarosław Gocławski·Angelina Rosiak
Abstract This study investigates the functional and symbolic roles of ceramic vessels from Early Iron Age funerary contexts at Domasław (Lower Silesia, Poland). We analysed 40 ritual-type objects against a comparative set of 34 standard cemetery vessels, integrating archaeological context with GC–MS organic residue analysis and multivariate statistics (PERMANOVA, NMDS, LEfSe). Presence/absence data for compound classes indicate that ‘added/offering’ vessels and morphologically ‘special’ forms di