Kamil Niedziółka

University of Gdansk | UG · Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology

The article presents the results of research carried out at Sacharewo in the Białowieża Forest, involving excavations of a barrow cemetery associated with the Roman Period and the nearby settlement, which delivered finds from the Early Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Roman Period and the Modern Period. Noteworthy was a significant amount of material...

The area surrounding Wierzchowo Lake, located in the central part of Pomerania (Northern Poland), is of particular interest from the point of view of the development of past settlements. Archaeological data have revealed human activity during various periods, ranging from the Palaeolithic through the Modern Period. This may suggest the relative and...

German and Polish archaeologists were in competition from the earliest beginnings of Polish archaeology as a modern academic discipline. This contest affected all archaeological research and was heavily influenced by contemporary political rivalries between Poland and Germany. Poland, newly restored as an independent nation following World War I, h...

The Białowieża Forest is one of the few relics of temperate, old-growth woodlands in Europe considered “natural”. Recent research revealed there the presence of numerous anthropogenic landforms associated with prehistoric, medieval and modern-era human activities. They include systems of rectangular plots separated by embankments – linear forms up...

In this report, we present the contributions, outcomes, ideas, discussions and conclusions obtained at the PaleoMaps Workshop 2019, that took place at the Institute of Geography of the University of Cologne on 23 and 24 September 2019. The twofold aim of the workshop was: (1) to provide an overview of approaches and methods that are presently used...

The article presents results of excavations carried out at an alleged barrow cemetery located in the western part of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland. The site, discovered in 1996 and verified in 2016, consists of 10 mounds. In 2017, the first excavations were carried out when the mound no. 3, with a diameter of c. 9 m and a relative height o...

We explored past critical transitions in a peatland located in N Poland using a densely dated (x 44 14 C dates and x26 210 Pb), high-resolution multi-proxy profile. A 6500-year record was supported by a very robust age-depth model. Changes in land use, climate and carbon sequestration in northern Poland were investigated using a range of biotic pro...

This paper presents the results of an analysis of archaeological material recovered in 2014 during the rescue excavations at site 4 in the Szemud locality, in the Eastern Pomerania region of Poland. The investigations revealed a small fragment of an open settlement from the early medieval period with especially interesting materials. Besides a larg...

Polish Archaeological Record (AZP) is a unique research program initiated by Polish archaeologists in the second half of 1970s. The aim of this project is to mark on unitary maps (AZP sheets) all archaeological sites that were recorded during surface surveys along with sites known from the archives. The main purpose of this paper is to focus on per...