Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska

• University of Wrocław

The evolution of Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement organization in Central Europe has revealed ditches as an important component of settlement structures. The various shapes and sizes of these features contribute to different understandings of their functions, mainly referring to ditches as elements of fortifications or ritual practices. Based on...

Zusammenfassung In der zweiten Hälfte des 6. Jahrtausends v. Chr. wanderten die ersten mit der Bandkeramik verbundenen Bauern aus und ihre Kultur verbreitete sich in die Gebiete nördlich der Karpaten. Bisher hatte man angenommen, dass diese frühneolithische Ausbreitung in einen Zeitraum um ca. 5500–5400 v. Chr. fällt, was sich vor allem auf verglei...

Museum collections contain numerous finds that are considered low-quality data and do not attract the proper attention of researchers. The most common reason is the uncertain context of the finds or lack of other precise identification. The main aim of this paper is to increase the scientific value of so-called stray finds. The collection of the Ne...

This article presents the study of a unique artefact in the form of a very large trapezoidal axe-head with rectangular section from Słupów, Lesser Poland, against the background of Eneolithic phenomena occurring in the area. The specimen is in the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków since 1929, but has not been discussed until now. It...

Data from eight early Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1650 BC) locations in Poland, including three fortified settlements, show two various modes of the application of metal tools in the processing of bone and antler. On the objects from high-rank sites, metal tools were applied as early as in the early Bronze Age, while on the other sites use of flint tools...

In 2017, a man fishing in the Oder River accidentally discovered an antler-base axe in the village of Domaszków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship. In-depth study of the axe included analysis of the traces on its surface, radiocarbon dating and paleogenetic analysis, and concluded with the tool’s conservation. Most of the traces casting light on the techn...

The paper presents results of technological, typological, raw material and use-wear analyses of stone assemblage from the Kamenets-Podolskiy (Tatarysky) site, dated to 3950-3900 BC (the late Tripolye BII). The assemblage is presented against a broad comparative background of sites from Forest-Steppe Ukraine. Flint processing focused on blades produ...

The authors describe a Neolithic ground stone adze, retrieved from an Early Iron Age burial (c. 700–550 BC) at the urnfield cemetery in Miłosławice, south-western Poland. This artefact yields an interesting example of an extended tool biography.

This paper presents the results of excavations conducted at the Late Gravettian site of Lubná VI in 2012 and 2018. This site is an exceptional example of a short-term Late Gravettian campsite, occupied between 27.5 and 27.1 ka cal BP. Due to the specific location of this site, in an area situated far from lithic raw material sources, the archaeolog...

The presentation about the small project and its results in indentification various functions of a collection from the site in Milejowice, SW Poland

It is commonly accepted that the life style of hunters and gatherers of the Late Palaeolithic was perfectly adapted to the environmental and climate conditions. One of the crucial aspects of the adaptation was an effective strategy of exploitation of the varied natural resources. It assumed different forms and intensity depending on interregional a...

The multi-faceted analyses proved that the community of early Iron Age settlement (7 th century BC) at Milejowice in SW Poland used easily accessible, erratic pebbles of similar shapes for various purposes. Referring to the results of our experimental work, we examined a collection of 46 stone objects found in various contexts. Using microscopic an...

Trenčianske Bohuslavice Gravettian site has been known since the early 1980s, with possibly the longest sequence of Upper Palaeolithic human occupation in the region, including a peculiar assemblage of lithic tools composed of bifacial leaf points. This paper presents the results of the 2017 excavation season that produced new data on the absolute...

The appearance of the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) on Poland territory initiated the process of neolithization in the area. However, as we will see in this article, this colonization took place later than previously thought. The stage, which in Poland is called as the early phase, actually corresponds only to the Fomborn/Ačkovy stage of LBK, and th...

The appearance of the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) on Poland territory initiated the process of neolithization in the area. However, as we will see in this article, this colonization took place later than previously thought. The stage, which in Poland is called as the early phase, actually corresponds only to the Fomborn/Ačkovy stage of LBK, and th...

The appearance of the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) on Poland territory initiated the process of neolithization in the area. However, as we will see in this article, this colonization took place later than previously thought. The stage, which in Poland is called as the early phase, actually corresponds only to the Fomborn/Ačkovy stage of LBK, and th...

The paper presents the results of two grave excavations from the Magnice region in southwestern Poland. Both graves belong to the Corded Ware cultural tradition and provide evidence for two completely different ways of burying the dead practised by the same archaeological „culture“ over a similar time period. The differences are in grave constructi...

The Late Glacial site Lubrza 10 yielded new archaeological and use-wear data for discussing the development of plant-based technologies long before the occupation of the European Lowlands by Neolithic societies. More than 4000 Federmesser and Swiderian lithic artefacts were collected from the site, which is located on sandy kames adjacent to former...

Trapezoidal flint microliths have been attributed to various early agricultural cultures in Central Europe. They are found in both settlements and cemeteries. The cemetery of the Lublin-Volhynian Culture in Książnice, Site 2, one of the two biggest necropolises of younger Danubian cultures in southern Poland, has provided the greatest number of tr...

Zabytki krzemienne z prac wykopaliskowych prowadzonych na przełomie XIX i XX stulecia na stanowisku 5 w Jordanowie Śląskim Tytuł (j. angielski): Flint artefacts from the archaeological excavations carried out at the turn of 19th and 20th century at the site no 5 in Jordanów Śląski Typ artykułu: Praca oryginalna Słowa kluczowe (j. polski): Jordanów...

The subject of interdisciplinary studies was the Magdalenian archaeological site and its vicinity situated in the SE part of Kolbuszowa Plateau (Sandomierz Basin, SE Poland). The results of geoarchaeological analysis were not limited only to the area of archaeological excavations, but also include a wider background. From palaeogeographical point o...

This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary study that combines archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research to examine the relationship between environment and human activities in Western Poland during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene. The study area lying within the young moraine landscape produced several Late Palaeolithic and E...

The aims of the project will be implemented on the basis of interdisciplinary studies involving archeology, geology, paleontology, palynology, anthracology and physical and geochemical examinations, including radiocarbon dating and isotope analysis. Realization of this project is supported by National Science Center, Poland (grant decision No. DEC-...

This article presents the results of use-wear analysis of the backed implements (shouldered points and backed blades) discovered at Kraków Spadzista, trench B + B1. Of the 197 examined tools, 113 specimens (55%) wear traces of use. In this group, 55 artefacts show a complete set of clear, characteristic impact traces and could be interpreted as the...

The Lublin-Volhynian culture retouched blade daggers are unique forms of flint tools in the Eneolithic in Poland. They are most often found in male graves, around the chest or skull, as signs of prestige and high status of men possessing them. Anna Zakościelna also suggested that such kind of tools did not served utilitarian function. Contrary to p...

Previous studies on the Gravettian in Central Europe did not pay much attention to the issue of the marginal areas' occupation, because the main research interest was placed on analysis of remains from the area of classic refugia, the middle Danube valley or southern Moravia. Consequently, little is known about the mechanisms associated with occupa...

This paper presents the results of use-wear analysis of a flint inventory from the Late Glacial open-air site Targowisko 10, located ca. 30 km east of Cracow, S Poland. The site represents a temporary camp of Upper Palaeolithic hunters from the 15th millennium BP, whose activities were related to hunting horse and reindeer, as well as obtaining loc...

This study provides new data about the chronological framework, as well as revising the occupational model of the Neanderthals in areas north of the Carpathians and Sudetes during MIS 5 and MIS 3. According to the current numerical dating from key sites in Central Europe, the settlement hiatus between MIS 5a and the time of occurrence of transition...

Crescent-shaped flint sickles, though excavated not infrequently in south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine, tend to be stray single finds, very rarely attested in compact assemblages. Deposits containing artefacts made from raw materials other than metal seldom become the object of archaeological research. This paper presents two flint tools reco...

Flint artifacts are the most com mon finds on the archaeological sites from Early and Middle Stone Age. Considerable part of assemblages often bear traces resulted from high temperature in- fluence. These traces are usually cursorily described, because in the literature there are no complex studies cOl1Cerning heated flint materia!. 111e aim of our...