About the Journal

Archaeological Review (Przegląd Archeologiczny) is an annual journal dedicated to general archaeology. For the first time, a journal with this title was published in 1876 in Lviv, as an organ of the National Archaeological Society. After a long interval, a journal with the same title started to be published in 1919 in Poznań as an organ of the Archaeological Committee of the Society of Friends of Learning. The founder and editor of the periodical was Professor J. Kostrzewski. The subsequent volumes published in the years 1920-1924, were jointly edited by the Archaeological Commission and the Polish Prehistoric Society, which was founded in 1920. From 1925, the journal became exclusively the medium of the Polish Prehistoric Society. The year 1933 brought further changes; the journal became the forum of the Polish Prehistoric Society and the Institute of Prehistory of the University of Poznań. This joint editorial activity was interrupted in 1939 due to the outbreak of World War II. In total, in the interwar period 21 yearly issues of the journal were edited, forming six volumes, three of which were dedicated to leading researchers: Professor Lubor Niederle (Volume III, 1925-1927), Professor Zygmunt Zakrzewski (Volume V, 1933-1936, 1) and the creator of the three-age system, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (Volume V, 1933-1936, 2-3).

After World War II, the publication of Archaeological Review was resumed with Volume VII, issued jointly by the Polish Prehistoric Society and the Institute of Research on Slavic Antiquities at the University of Poznań. From 1948, the journal was a channel of the Polish Prehistoric Society, which was renamed the Polish Archaeological Society in 1953. In 1973 it became the journal of the Institute of History of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, with the editorial office at the then Department of Archaeology of the Odra River Basin in Wrocław, currently (since 1992) known as the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Wrocław Section. After the death of Professor J. Kostrzewski, Professor T. Wiślański became the editor of the journal (volumes 21-38), and then in the years 1990-2022 prof. dr hab. B. Gediga (volumes 39 to 71).

On the pages of Archaeological Review, issued form 100 years, several generations of Polish and foreign archaeologists have published their articles, significantly contributing to the development of the archaeology of Poland and Central Europe. The topics published in the journal cover issues concerning the methodology and the problems of all periods from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages in Europe, America and the Middle East.

On the one-hundredth anniversary of our journal Przegląd Archeologiczny [download pdf]

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