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Source: Facebook/ Pomeranian Voivodship Conservator of Monuments. Credit: M. Tymiński/ Voivodeship Office for the Protection of Monuments in Gdańsk

Bronze Age bracelet found in Polish forest

A large bronze bracelet believed to date back to the 8th–9th century BCE has been found in forests in Kociewie, northern Poland.

  • Credit: Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw

    Paleolithic Neanderthal workshop found in Poland

    A site in the Zwoleńka Valley in Mazovia is revealing new insights into Neanderthal life in central Poland. Archaeologists have found a 70,000-year-old Neanderthal workshop used to maintain and repair tools used for skinning large animals such as mammoths, horses, and rhinos.

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    Naming geographical location shapes blame for historical atrocities, study finds

    The way violent historical events are geographically described can significantly influence public perceptions of responsibility, according to new research.

  • Part of the buildings of the first settlement in Negash. Credit: Z. Augustyniak

    Polish researchers resume archaeological work in Ethiopia’s historic Tigray region

    After a years-long hiatus, scientists from the University of Warsaw have resumed archaeological and ethnographic research in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, an area considered the cradle of the Ethiopian state.

  • Source: Greater Poland Voivodeship Landscape Parks Complex (ZPKWW)

    Megalithic tombs dating back 5,500 years identified in Greater Poland

    A cluster of megalithic tombs dating back 5,500 years has been discovered in the General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in Greater Poland, marking the latest find of so-called "Polish pyramids" associated with the Funnelbeaker culture.

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    Scientists: Women had dominant role in community inhabiting Neolithic settlement Çatalhöyük

    Women held a dominant social role in the Neolithic community of Çatalhöyük, according to new research published in Science.

  • Credit: Patryk Muntowski

    Sudan/Salt lake and hundreds of new sites. Polish researchers reveal history of Bayuda desert

    Polish researchers working in the Bayuda desert in Sudan discovered a salty palaeolake, from which the rare mineral natron was extracted. Natron was used, among other things, for mummifying bodies, producing glass and ceramics. As a result of many years of work, the researchers identified over 1.2 thousand new archaeological sites, including over 400 in the Polish National Science Centre project.

  • Atico Valley, general view of the El Curaca site. Credit: Józef Szykulski

    Polish archaeologists in Peru discover cemetery of victims of brutal invasion from centuries ago

    Archaeologists from the University of Wrocław working in southern Peru discovered a cemetery with the remains of 24 people, mainly women and children. The wounds the deceased suffered indicate that they died as a result of an invasion that took place almost ten centuries ago.

  • The citadel in Old Dongola with marked locations of the houses discussed in the paper (credit: Adrian Chlebowski). Source: African Archaeological Review

    Food in Old Dongola: Sorghum, wheat and barley were basic ingredients of local diet

    The presence of significant amounts of sorghum, wheat and barley grains suggests that they were the basic source of carbohydrates for the inhabitants of Old Dongola and the basic ingredients of the local diet during the Funj period, research by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw has shown.

  • Lake Lednica, along with the island, contains the remains of the residence of the first Polish dynasty. Credit: Mariusz Lamentowicz

    Analyses of Lake Lednica bottom sediments speak about beginnings of Piast state

    Scientists have examined the bottom sediments from Lake Lednica (Wielkopolska). The data they have obtained allow to draw conclusions about historical changes in the landscape and the development of the Piast state, including deforestation, popularisation of grain cultivation, development of settlements. The paper on the origins of the Piast state was published in PNAS.

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