Marcin Maciejewski

The poster presents a comparison of different 3D documentation methods in archaeology: photogrammetry using different devices, 3D scanning and UAV LiDAR scanning. To read the text (in Polish only, but we are preparing a publication in English), it is best to download the file.

Bronze and Early Iron Age hoards in Poland are the focus of a multi-faceted study combining archival research with laboratory analyses and landscape studies. The diverse dataset is expected to reveal new insights into the phenomenon of metal deposition.

More than sixty years ago, J. Kostrzewski published a paper titled Ze studiów nad wczesnym okresem żelaznym w Polsce ( Studies on the early Iron Age in Poland ; in the German version Studien über die ältere Eisenzeit in Polen ). The article was a product of his long-time research, readings and searches conducted during the turbulent first half of t...

Interconnections between metal and non-metal assemblages and metal and non-metal objects in hoards In continental Bronze Age archaeology, the widely accepted definition of a hoard, according to W.A. von Brunn, is that it must contain at least two metal objects. R. Bradley presents a completely different perspective. He speaks of deposits, not hoar...

In this presentation (in Polish), the authors discuss the use of statistical methods in archaeological research. From the use of typical population analyses to more advanced methods of graph and network analysis and geostatistics. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The authors propose the use of structured data to create an easy-to-use wor...

Present-day archaeology focuses on the context of finds, on detailed analyses of minor variables and, to a greater and greater degree, makes use of methods offered by pure and natural sciences and interdisciplinary subdisciplines. Hypotheses and interpretations that are based on such sources make researchers verify many statements that can be found...

A Late Bronze Age hoard from Karmin, Poland, contained 16 socketed axes, half of which were made of copper. The copper axes represent the same local type as the bronze objects and bear the same traces of manufacturing and use. The authors argue that the move to copper was a response to unexpected difficulties in the tin supply.

Current Research on Bronze and Iron Ages Hoards Of all historical periods of Europe, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age were the time during which thousands of hoards were found, and the most complex depositional phenomena can be observed in the archaeological record. It is no wonder that the research of these two eras produced fundamental works on th...

Although studies of production traces and use-wear in copper and bronze artefacts have been conducted already for a few decades, the influence of the conservation on these items did not receive much scholarly attention. It seems quite surprising, as traceological analyses focus most often on conserved artefacts from museum collections. In the follo...

The volume presents results of two-year project : multi-aspect analysis of four late Bronze Age deposits placed in ceramic vessels and containing metal tools, weapons and ornaments. The linear arrangement of the hoards is extraordinary and the landscape studies in the deposit area indicate that they were related to the place of forcing the wide Bar...

The phenomenon of depositing various types of goods was practiced in Europe across the annals of all time. Known from the Bronze Age and in some regions of the continent, also from the Early Iron Age, metal object hoards are one of the most spectacular and easiest for identification as well as the most often recorded and analyzed illustration of th...

The excavation research carried out at Rosko, site 4 revealed a number of finds: 246 archaeological features and approximately 15,000 portable sources. They describe a 10,000 year history of settlement of a sand elevation located in the Noteć valley. Both in this location and in this part of the Noteć basin, the most intense settlement took place i...

Recent years have brought many significant changes when talking about research on the Early Iron Age in Poland, also in terms of the chronology method applying to most essential artifacts. Typology schemes and basis of dating process of metal objects, especially so-called Kujawy bronzes, also called ornaments in the Stanomin style are which belong...

In Polish archaeology - though not only - in past decades hoards were treated as assemblages of precious artefacts taken out of their cultural context and consequently their Investigation was focused on the typology of particular relics. One particularly Important challenge therefore is the formulation of an appropriate methodology, which on the on...

In different cultures the world is described by a variety of signs and symbols. Equally important as reading their meaning is an attempt to describe the relationships between them. Often seemingly unrelated elements of culture are linked by relations on a symbolic level. Research on the relationship between hoards (late Bronze Age and early Iron Ag...

Badania nad gromadnymi znaleziskami metali datowanymi na epokę brązu i wczesną epokę żelaza, których tylko z ziem polskich znamy ponad tysiąc, są wyjątkowo konserwatywnym działem archeologii. Szczególnie może to dziwić, gdy przywołamy klasyczny podział źródeł archeologicznych pióra Hansa Jurgena Eggersa określający te znaleziska jako złożone w jedn...

Bywa, że miejsca zyskują znaczenie dzięki przypadkowym wydarzeniom, jednak częściej ich postrzeganie wynika z celowego działania. Ta refleksja wysnuta z obserwacji społeczności z różnych części globu jest także ważna w badaniach nad pradziejami. Analizy mające na celu poznanie zachowań przestrzennych człowieka koncentrują się na rożnych kategoriach...

Hoards make one of the most mysterious categories of archaeological finds known from the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Doubts concerning their function should encourage researchers to use as wide information range as possible for understanding this phenomenon. However, there are still few scientific works considering their relationships with t...

The book takes up the question of the relationship between hoards of metal goods (deposits, collective finds) and a settlement network. Applying a novel research approach, the study covers cultural phenomena along the south Baltic coast and lakelands (Pomerania and north part of Greater Poland). This area was selected because of the state of resear...

Hoards make one of the most mysterious categories of archaeological finds known from the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. Doubts about their function should encourage researchers to use as wide information range as possible to understand the phenomenon. However, there are still few studies concerning their relationships with the settlement net...