Mesolithic Communities of the Chełmno-Dobrzyń Lakeland

This year’s excavations are slowly coming to an end. Despite many organizational problems, thanks to the great team, and in particular to numerous volunteers from all over Europe, they can certainly be considered successful, although of course, unfortunately, we have not managed to do everything (but we still have time 😊). The attached photos explore the Mesolithic stone structure used at least partly as a hearth. The feature is part of the hearths complex and is huge for our conditions because it is over 2.5m in diameter! Unfortunately, it was partly destroyed by a prehistoric fallen tree ☹ The hearth probably has a ritual origin, because as it seems it is associated with the ritual pit discovered next to it, containing more than 2,000 intentionally crushed flint, numerous bones and elements of the wooden construction. Interestingly, this pit was filled up intentionally very quickly and another hearth was built on it, under which (as a kind of deposit) we have discovered a collection of the selected big Late Palaeolithic flints (this practice was also observed for other objects of this type). The same 14C datings were obtained from the bottom of the pit (depth about 130 cm) and the hearth built on it, which confirms the homogeneity of the structure. Great discovery and we want more! 🙂

From 25 to 31 of June 2019 in Dublin (Ireland), a 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress took place. Members of the project prepared for this meeting one oral presentation: ” Relation of human activity and the environment in the young-glacial landscape: the Paliwodzizna site (central Poland)” (authors Michal Jankowski, Piotr Weckwerth, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Agnieszka Noryśkiewicz and Monika Badura) and one poster: “Sedimentary processes in lake nearshore areas and their interaction with human activity of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic communities in young-glacial landscape” (authors Piotr Weckwerth, Michał Jankowski, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz).

From 3 to 8 June 2019 in Lecce (Italy), an 18th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany took place. was presented by members of the project there:  ” Humans in the Environment: Plants and Landscapes in Mesolithic in the Paliwodzizna (Dobrzyń Lakeland, Northern Poland)” (authors Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz, Monika Badura, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Michał Jankowski and Piotr Weckwerth).

From 23 to 24 May 2019, the Archaeological Museum in Biskupin hosted the: IX Konferencja Sprawozdawcza „Badania archeologiczne w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim w latach 2017-2018”.
The conference is organized every 2 years and refers to current archaeological research results carried out in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. It’s organized by the Provincial Office for Monuments Protection in Toruń-Delegatura in Bydgoszcz, the Institute of Archeology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Archaeological Museum in Biskupin.

We were also there 🙂 Dr hab. Grzegorz Osipowicz presented a lecture: Z badań nad wczesnoholoceńskimi społecznościami zbieracko-łowieckimi Pojezierza Chełmińsko-Dobrzyńskiego. Rezultaty prac wykopaliskowych przeprowadzonych w latach 2017-2018 na stanowiskach Nowogród 26 i Paliwodzizna 29, gm. Golub-Dobrzyń.

Detailed information can be found at:
http://www.biskupin.pl/9331-2/

Dear Colleagues, we invite you to visit an interactive map of the site Paliwodzizna 29. The map illustrates the area of our current excavations and distribution of the features and different kind of artefacts. You are able to switch on and of particular elements of the map. The most interesting features are illustrated with photos. The map can be found here:

Paliwodzizna, site 29 – interactive map

Excavations at the Mesolithic sites and experimental archaeology in Poland! – Poster.pdf

In the third issue of the Newsletter “EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN NCU” you can find a report from one of the volunteers dedicated to experimental work carried out during our last year’s excavations. Below is also a link to the whole number. We invite you to read 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We invite all interested to read a new article regarding the “mysterious curved knives” and plant processing in the Late Mesolithic in Poland. Article was published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Osipowicz G. 2019. Plant processing in the Late Mesolithic Poland: in search for function of the mysterious ‘curved knives’. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00784-w

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In the latest issue of Archaeologia Polona a new article concerning treatment and use of non-flint stone raw materials found on site 17 in Nowogród was published- “Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Treatment and Use of Non-flint Stone Raw Materials: Material Collection From Site 17 at Nowogród, Golub-Dobrzyń District, Poland”. All interested are warmly invited to read:)

Osipowicz G., Chachlikowski P., Orłowska J., Kasztovszky Z., Siuda R., Weckwerth P.2018. Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Treatment and Use of Non-flint Stone Raw Materials: Material Collection From Site 17 at Nowogród, Golub-Dobrzyń District, Poland. Archaeologia Polona, Vol. 56 (2018): Characteristics and distribution of siliceous rocks in prehistory (edited by Dagmara H. Werra and Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka), Pages 103-125.

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On December 16, 2018, the X Archaeological Christmas Seminary of the Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń took place, during which dr Grzegorz Osipowicz presented a paper entitled: “Z działalności Pracowni Traseologii w roku 2018”.
As part of it was discussed, among others, the results of studies related to the Project.

Below the link to the event:
https://www.facebook.com/instytut.archeologii.umk/photos/pcb.1426391840824435/1426391747491111/?type=3&theater