Grzegorz Kiarszys

University of Szczecin · Institute of History and International Relations

In 2016, the immediate surroundings of a valuable historical site - a knight's tower (motte-and-bailey castle) in Lubrza, Lubuskie Voivodeship, W Poland - were destroyed. Rescue works undertaken immediately after this unfortunate event led to the documentation of the tower's state of preservation and the acquisition of numerous late medieval artefa...

The Mayak Chemical Combine was one of the most secretive places in the Soviet Union. It was built in the southern Urals, close to Kyshtym. The facility produced weapons-grade plutonium and other radioactive isotopes for the Soviet nuclear military programme. Fugitives from behind the Iron Curtain mentioned the site, usually due to accidents and pec...

While the Western Front of the Great (or First World) War is deeply engrained in the European historical consciousness, memories of the Eastern Front are less prominent. Here, events have been repressed, obscured by the subsequent experience of the Second World War and by heritage policy in the region. The authors present the results of archaeologi...

The three-part hillfort in Lubomia, Wodzisław district (site 1, AZP 103-41/50) is the largest, one of the best preserved and one of the best excavated, early medieval hillforts of Śląskie Voivodeship. The aim of the authors was to integrate the archival research with the outcomes of remote sensing methods and, as a result, to supplement knowledge o...

Since 2006, systematic research has been carried out in central part of the Greater Poland region to find the remains of the earthen long barrows left behind by the societies of the Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture. They are known as Kuyavian barrows because of their frequent presence in the Kuyavia region in central Poland. In the Greater Po...

In this article the outcomes of historical, archaeological, spatial and anthropological research concerning material remnants of the war cemeteries left by the Great War in Central Poland, in the area of Rawka and Bzura are presented. On the example of one of the four communes (Nowa Sucha) subjected to research under the project Archaeological Revi...

The material and documentary archive of twentieth-century global conflict is rich and diverse, but even for such a recent period, gaps in our knowledge remain. One of these concerns abandoned Cold War military sites, where secrecy and historical silence surrounding their construction and use has limited our understanding. This article reports on re...

The main goal of my PhD thesis is socio-cultural interpretation of architectural space in Medieval Irish castles. Furthermore, I intend to discuss the way archaeologists think and write about the past. The first part of the PhD thesis is an attempt to define my own understanding of concepts such as memory, tradition, culture, society, social order,...

Application of airborne laser scanning (ALS) for archaeological purposes allows for identification of relief features. Unless the detection is automated, the recognition of archaeological objects in the observed dataset is bounded by the interaction between human mind, eye and visual phenomena that are displayed on the screen. To improve effectiven...

The discovery of the abandoned medieval town of Dzwonowo at the beginning of 2014 might be seen as coincidental. The orthophotomap used for this purpose was not meant for recording archaeological sites mani festing themselves in the form of crop marks. The imagery, on which identification of the former town layout was based, had been taken on the 8...

Od pewnego czasu na gruncie polskiej archeologii wzrasta popularność nieinwazyjnych metod ba-dawczych. Dane uzyskiwane za ich pomocą mogą być wydajnie przetwarzane, analizowane oraz prezentowa-ne w sposób perswazyjny i efektowny. Coraz częściej podczas badań archeologicznych standardem staje się wykorzystanie metod geofizycznych, fotografii lotni-c...

This paper is an attempt to compare selected software options for processing of LiDAR data. It is focused on filtration and classification of the ground points for the purpose of archaeological sites identification. We confronted popular commercial Terrasolid software with LAStools released under the LGPL license. To accomplish this task we used da...

Nowożytne przekształcenia krajobrazu kulturowego miejscowości Drogoradz (gm. Police, woj. zachodniopomorskie) w świetle kartografii historycznej i metod teledetekcyjnych Współczesny krajobraz kulturowy uzyskał znaną nam formę w wyniku długotrwałych procesów, na które wpływ miały zarówno czynniki naturalne, jak i kulturowe (np. Kijowska, Kijowski, R...

Authors examine problem of chronology and function of the early medieval stronghold of Cedynia (Zehden), situated at the left bank of the Oder river

1 upływający czas archeologii przegląd archeologiczny Vol. 61, 2013, pp. pl issN 0079-7138 in this paper i consider the consequences of the use of different concepts of time in archaeology. i make an attempt to deconstruct our understanding of time in modern culture and find the ways in which it influences archaeological narratives. The common idea...