Paulina Suchowska-Ducke

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań | UAM · Faculty of Archaeology

Baltic amber is often considered the principal Scandinavian commodity exchanged for metal from ore-rich regions in Europe. If correct, this may explain the astonishing metal wealth of the Nordic Bronze Age and the modest social consumption of amber locally. The hypothesis of a metal-for-amber principle behind the trade is here for the first time as...

Current consumer-grade UAV technology is economical, highly automated, and well-suited for large area prospection. At the same time, rapid recording of sites and monuments that cannot be preserved or protected in their entirety is becoming a key research topic. We address the critical issue of designing UAV-based workflows to maximize area coverage...

The bronze cup found in Dohnsen (Lower Saxony, northern Germany) in the 1950s is an enigmatic artefact that bears striking similarities with the metalwork of the Late Aegean Bronze Age. We provide an accurate review of the primary sources of information on the cup’s find history and context, and we present the results of previously unpublished chem...

This contribution discusses methods for reconstructing the links of past physical networks, based on archaeological site locations and mathematical models of few parameters. Networks are ubiquitous features of human culture. They structure the geographical patterning of the archaeological record strongly. But while material evidence of networked so...

The study of warfare among ancient societies – its nature, scale and impacts – has become an increasingly fertile multidisciplinary field of research in archaeology and related disciplines. This is particularly true for the European Bronze Age, an epoch that has produced iconic arte- facts, architecture, images, and written sources that speak about...

The paper’s aim is not to provide a profound reflection on the origin and nature of conflicts between people, but rather a description of warfare in a specific time interval, namely the Bronze Age. Then, changes in warfare paralleled those in social and ideological spheres. Active participation in war became an elite occupation — the privilege of f...

A B S T R AC T In many aspects, the Bronze Age was a formative epoch in European history. It was a time of movement and change, of travel, contact, cultural transmission and social transformation. To a large degree, the shape of the Bronze Age network that connected the Aegean/Mediterranean regions with the interior of Europe was predetermined by p...

Long-distance contacts, exchange of goods and more organized forms of trade have been a part of human life since the beginning of what is commonly perceived as culture. One reason for this has always been an unequal geographic distribution of desirable raw materials such as obsidian, flint, or metals. Another driving force comprises the constructio...

We present a complete, video-based 3d documentation process for the submerged remains of Neolithic pile dwellings at the UNESCO World Heritage Site "See am Mondsee" in Austria. We discuss good practice routines and solutions, such as cable management, supporting the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) when strong currents are prevalent, and documenta...

This document is a short, practical field guide to archaeological surveys with hand-held gradiometers. Although it contains many parts that apply specifically to Bartington Instruments' Grad601, readers should not find it difficult to adapt the remaining content to other types of instruments. To our knowledge, the method outlined here is in active...

The Bronze Age was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-dependence on ores and metallurgical skills that were unevenly distributed in geographical space. Access to these critical resources was secured not only via long-distance physical trade routes, making use of landscape features such as river networks, as we...

The image-based reconstruction of 3D scenes and objects provides low-cost and flexible pathways to the documentation, presentation and digital preservation of material heritage. We discuss a case study of this technology's application on the island of Failaka (Kuwait), where it has been successfully used to document built remains and artefacts of t...