Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

Współczesna paleoantropologia i paleoarcheologia w muzeach w Polsce w kontekście turystycznym. Niewidoczne dziedzictwo?

Dagmara Chylińska — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Dziedzictwo prehistorii, zarówno w dziedzinie paleoantropologii, jak i paleoarcheologii, stanowi ogromny zasób fizyczny i interpretacyjny, mimo że większość artefaktów nigdy nie opuściła magazynów muzealnych. Znaczący rozwój badań nad skamielinami ludzkimi skłania jednak do rozważań nad sposobami eksponowania zbiorów muzealnych dotyczących tego rodzaju dziedzictwa. W Polsce artefakty pradziejowe, w tym kopalne szczątki praludzi, znajdują się w różnych typach muzeów – historycznych, archeologicznych, przyrodniczych, geologicznych, a także muzeach uczelnianych i instytutach naukowych. Żadne z nich nie buduje swojej marki w oparciu o artefakty paleoantropologiczne. Co więcej, od czasu zaprzestania prac wykopaliskowych, miejsca tego typu odkryć pozostają nieczytelne dla ogółu społeczeństwa ze względu na brak oznaczeń na miejscu oraz odpowiedniej infrastruktury dydaktyczno-turystycznej. Wszystkie to razem podkreślają problem ograniczonej widoczności dziedzictwa paleoantropologicznego i paleoarcheologicznego na polskim rynku muzealnym i turystycznym.

Attempts at spatial analyses of data from the Polish Archaeological Record

Rafał Solecki, Patrycja Smereczyńska — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since the mid-1970s, the Polish Archaeological Record has been a national program in Poland with the primary objective of cataloguing archaeological sites, providing detailed descriptions and exact geographical locations. It is in operation to this day. So far, approximately 90% of the area of Poland has been prospected and almost 470,000 archaeological sites catalogued. Currently, work is underway to digitise the entire database. This paper presents our attempts to use the digitised data from this database to study the intensity of settlement processes in the past as well as how to visualise these data on a map. For the purpose of this research, archaeological data from an area in the northeast of Poland were digitised in a GIS environment. Examples of similar spatial analyses were taken from Scottish and Czech research and adapted to this case. The results, a series of maps showing the intensity of traces of human habitation in different time periods, demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of such visualisations.

Radiocarbon Chronology of the post-LBK Malice Culture in Lesser Poland

Sławomir Romuald Kadrow — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A series of new radiocarbon dates from Neolithic Malice Culture (MC) sites in Lesser Poland allow for making significant corrections in the absolute chronology of this culture. Bayesian modelling of a series of MC dates made it possible also to specify the absolute chronology of individual phases of the development of this culture. The early classic phase (MC1a) is around 4800-4700 BC, the classic phase (MC1b) between 4700 and 4450 BC, and the late phase (MC2) between 4450 and 4200 BC. In addition, the review of the definitions of the MC phases and their new absolute chronology allow for the synchronization of their development with the cultural
units in the Tisza basin. Phase MC1b developed parallel to phase III of the Herpály culture, phase MC1c to Proto-Tiszapolgár (layer 5 on the Herpály tell), and phase MC2 with the Tiszapolgár culture.

Wczesnoneolityczni osadnicy na granicy lessów wschodniej Polski: nowe dane z Płaskowyżu Nałęczowskiego

Marcin Szeliga, Katarzyna Gawryjołek-Szeliga — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article is an interim presentation of the colonisation of the loess upland border of the western Lublin Region
by LBK societies. The main point of reference are materials discovered in Bogucin (Nałęczów Plateau) in 2011,
which are currently the only homogenous Early Neolithic collection from this region. The results of the research indicate that the LBK settlement on the loess borderland started at least at the end of the 6th millennium BC, in the classical stage of the Music-Note phase (NII). It clearly intensified during its latest part (NIII), which was linked with the adaptation of the early-Želiezovce ornamentation style. The obtained data confirms the existence of at least two settlement micro-regions in the discussed period. They dynamically developed through intense and far-reaching interregional contacts and exchange of goods (especially flints and flint artefacts). The initial territories of the LBK societies inhabiting the analysed loess borderland were most probably the areas of the northern foreland of the Sandomierz Upland.

From pots to potters: reconstructing group and individual variability in pottery production. A case study of the LBK site Cząstków Polski XII, Comm. Czosnów

Joanna Pyzel, Louise Gomart — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents the results of the analysis of the manufacturing macrotraces on the LBK pottery from Cząstków Polski, Site XII, Czosnów commune. It is a small, highly fragmented, and eroded assemblage and the usefulness of such material for the study of pottery production was tested. Different lines of evidence could be combined and led to the recognition of various vessel forming methods and to the reconstruction of distinct chaînes opératoires and even individual traits within them, indicating the occupation of the site by one community of practice with multiple manufacturers. Pottery production at Cząstków Polski followed general LBK
potting standards but also shows some peculiarities indicating some degree of idiosyncrasy within this community of practice.

Baltic Amber in Hungarian Bronze Age. New data and current stage of research

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Artykuł stanowi z jednej strony podsumowanie stanu badań nad obecnością bursztynu bałtyckiego w epoce brązu na obszarze dzisiejszych Węgier, z drugiej strony natomiast dostarcza nowych informacji. Te ostatnie dotyczą kluczowych kwestii pochodzenia bursztynu oraz chronologii absolutnej jego depozycji. W świetle pozyskanych datowań radiowęglowych możliwe było ukazanie stałej obecności sukcynitu na obszarze Węgier od okresu Pucharów Dzwonowatych po późną epokę brązu. Jednocześnie udokumentowano różnice ilościowe i jakościowe w zbiorze znalezisk bursztynu pomiędzy poszczególnymi okresami epoki brązu. Uzupełnieniem tekstu są załączniki, w których wyjaśnione zostały kwestie dotyczące stanu zachowania publikowanych wcześniej znalezisk, ich aktualna dostępność dla badań specjalistycznych oraz historia badań i depozycji w poszczególnych muzeach i kolekcjach innego typu.

A multidisciplinary assessment of disability in early medieval Culmen, Poland

Magdalena Matczak, Tomasz Kozłowski, Wojciech Chudziak — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This study bridges a gap between palaeopathology and the textual analysis, with the aim of investigating which
diseases and pathological lesions could have been associated with disability in Early Mediaeval Culmen in Poland.
We used palaeopathological methods to examine 661 skeletons, as well as reviewed Early Mediaeval hagiographies
and chronicles. The textual analysis revealed three types of disability: mobility difficulties, an abnormal posture, and blindness, which were also identified in the osteological materials from Culmen. Eight skeletons display lesions corresponding to Pott’s disease, poliomyelitis, leprosy, osteomyelitis, multiple myeloma, and amputation, which were identified as disabilities. The prevalence of disability depended on the age, with adults affected more frequently. This interdisciplinary study is the first to analyse people with disabilities on a population level, using textual sources and osteological materials from mediaeval Central Europe. The protocol for
research on disability in archaeology presented by us may be applied to other archaeological contexts, also from sites outside Poland, from historical periods of time.

Chipped lithic artefacts from Paradimi and Krovili (Thrace, Northern Greece). Remarks from the 2020 surface investigations

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The paper presents flaked lithic materials from two tell-type Neolithic sites Paradimi and Krovili located in Eastern Thrace. They were obtained during systematic and detailed surface surveys. All the collected lithic materials were examined and described. Some conclusions about processing and sources of raw materials were presented along with comparisons to other Neolithic sites in northern Greece.

Early Neolithic red-painted pottery from the Prandocin site, southern Poland. Indirect transfer in a technological context

Anna Rauba-Bukowska, Maciej Nowak, Gabriela Jużwińska, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The paper presents the results of specialized research on a small collection of artifacts of the Linear Pottery Culture in southern Poland. Among the 27 pottery fragments discovered at the Prandocin site, a few painted fragments were identified. Such kind of painting style directly relates to the Želiezovce group of this culture in western Slovakia. Painted vessels are rarely found in the context of the Linear Pottery Culture in Lesser Poland (Małopolska), which is why special attention was given to raw material and technological studies of the ceramics. The study aimed to answer the question of whether the painted vessel was produced locally or if it represents evidence of direct migration of people, objects, or ideas from the areas of present-day western Slovakia at the turn of the 6th and 5th millennium BC.

Results of a palynological study of the contents of small glass bottles of the Late Antiquity from the Kanchaani Cemetery (Southeastern Georgia)

Eliso Kvavadze, Inga Martkoplishvili, Kakha Kakhiani, Nana Rezesidze — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Eight small glass bottles (vials) have been obtained from five graves of the Kanchaani cemetery, dating to the 1st-3rd centuries AD. The objects came to the laboratory almost intact, and their contents have also survived. Analysis of the plant pollen and the study of non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) of these contents showed that there was a set of various medicinal plants in seven bottles, and one bottle contained an infusion made from in-sects, which also had medicinal properties. The pollen of 23 medicinal plants has been determined to genus and species levels in the contents of the bottles. The paper describes in detail the characteristics of all found medici-nal plants and their use in folk medicine. It turns out, that the ethnopharmacology of the Late Antiquity Period in the region under consideration was rather well developed.

Cmentarzysko w Luzinie - najbardziej na wschód położone stanowisko grupy dębczyńskiej w Polsce (Pomorze)

Magdalena Piotrowska, Daniel Żychliński — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Luzino burial ground is the easternmost site of the Dębczyno group, located in Wejherowo county, in the northern Polish province of Pomerania. The cemetery occupied the summit of a slightly elevated terrain ridge. The remains of 20 graves, most probably only skeletal burials, were recorded, in which, apart from one case, no bone material survived. Grave goods were recorded in five of them. In four graves, small-sized hand-made vessels were recorded whose state of preservation allowed their reconstruction, while in one burial an elaborate necklace of beads (glass and amber, see below), a brooch and probably a belt buckle were discovered.
The materials found at the Luzino site should be associated with the late stages of Migration Period. The burials with grave goods, however, show mainly links to the Elbe circle, while Scandinavian influences are lacking in the mobile materials.

Early medieval burial from the culmination of the Old Town Hill in Sandomierz

Marek Florek, Anita Szczepanek — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The subject of this article is a grave dated to the end of the 10^th c. AD discovered in 2016 at the culmination of the so-called Old Town Hill in Sandomierz. The grave, just like a burial found in 2006 – located a dozen or so metres from the discussed feature – was unusually oriented – approximately along the N-S axis. Specialist analyses and examination of the burial goods found in the grave – a knife, a firesteel, a flint strike-a-light and a vessel fragment – indicate that the buried man probably lived in Sandomierz or its surroundings. The graves discovered in 2006 and 2016 are not part of a vast cemetery that occupied the middle and upper part of the Old Town Hill in the 11^th c., but they are separate burials. It is possible that they attest to an abandoned attempt to establish a cemetery by an unspecified group inhabiting Sandomierz at the end of the 11^th c., desiring to stress their distinctiveness from the rest of the population not only by having their own necropolis, but also by digging graves that were oriented in a different direction.

In the middle of nowhere. Unique sword scabbard chape from Niepołomice Forest

Andrzej Janowski, Krzysztof Sojka; Ewa Włodarczak — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Poszukiwania z uzyciem detektora metali prowadzone w Małopolsce w ostatnich latach dostarczyły wielu cennych zabytków archeologicznych. Jednym z nich jest trzewik pochwy miecza ze stopu miedzi znaleziony w środku Puszczy Niepołomickiej. Artykuł omawia ten zabytek w kontekście istniejących klasyfikacji i analizy porównawczej, opisuje datowanie i charakter etnokulturowy. Trzewiki pochew mieczy tego typu są znaleziskami rzadkimi a większość z nich odkryto w Europie południowej i wschodniej w Bułgarii, na Węgrzech i Ukrainie, i są datowane na 2. połowę X-XI wiek. Okaz z Puszczy Niepołomickiej powstał przypuszczalnie tam i trafił tu jednym ze szlaków handlowych krzyżujących się w Krakowie

(Review) Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Anna Rauba-Bukowska, Agnieszka Kukułka (eds), Najstarsza osada kultury ceramiki wstęgowej rytej z terenu Polski. Gwoździec stan. 2, gm. Zakliczyn/ The earliest settlement of the Linear Pottery Culture from the territory

Marcin Szeliga — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

(Review) Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller, Alena Bistáková, Maria Wunderlich, Nils Müller-Scheeßel (eds), Archaeology in the Žitava valley I: The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble (= Scales of Transformation in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies 9)

Anna Głód — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

(Review) Andrzej Buko, Świt państwa polskiego

Paul Barford — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Preface. Jan Machnik (20 September 1930 –7 October 2023)

Piotr Włodarczak — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000