Quite a lot has been happening recently, even if we have not been sharing updates regularly. Over the past weeks, work has focused on the study of existing archaeological collections and documentation rather than on new fieldwork. We have started reviewing materials from the oppidum of Závist deposited in the Prague archives, concentrating on selected […]
The project “Between the Celts and the Northern People”, funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), explores the interaction zones between two major cultural worlds of the Iron Age: the La Tène (Celtic) and the northern Jastorf/Przeworsk spheres. After the collapse of the Hallstatt centres north of the Carpathians, new groups from the south reintroduced […]
What did people eat in Silesia two thousand years ago? Answering this question takes us far beyond the visible artefacts. Together with specialists, we are applying a series of bioarchaeological methods to reveal traces of ancient food and farming. One of these is lipid residue analysis — a chemical method that extracts microscopic fats preserved […]
We are pleased to invite you to an online lecture by Dr Joanna Ewa Markiewicz, Principal Investigator of the project Between the Celts and the Northern People: Interactions between the Middle and Late La Tène Societies in Central Europe (Charles University, Prague). ? 6 November 2025 (Thursday), 19:00 CET? Online lecture via Zoom Her talk, […]
This week we’re in Poznań for the 20th edition of “Archaeology of the Barbarians: Migrations – Trade – Expeditions. Mobility in the European Barbaricum.” The meeting runs 22–25 October 2025 at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań (Wodna 27) and is a closed event for registered participants. Why this conference matters “Barbaricum” — lands beyond the […]
This autumn brings a series of events and research visits that will help us connect our results with the wider academic discussion. These trips are not just about photographing artefacts. They allow us to compare how different institutions documented Iron Age materials and to identify unpublished or misinterpreted finds. Many artefacts discovered decades ago still […]
The site of Brodno 3 (Środa Śląska district, Lower Silesia) remains one of the key places in our study of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age in Central Europe. Excavated already in the 1970s, it has long been known for its mixed archaeological record — finds typical of both the La Tène cultural sphere and the […]
We have begun work on the material from the large pre-Roman Iron Age settlement at Brodno (Środa Śląska commune), excavated between 1974 and 1976 by Karol Bykowski of the University of Wrocław. Although partially published in Śląskie Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, the site archives include many unpublished finds – notably ceramics and domestic architecture elements. Our current […]
The La Tène culture – named after the archaeological site of La Tène on Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland – was an Iron Age cultural complex associated with Celtic peoples, though not identical to the entirety of the Celtic world. It developed on the basis of the late Hallstatt culture and flourished from the late 5th century BC […]
The Jastorf culture (named after the site of Jastorf in Lower Saxony) was a pre‐Roman Iron Age archaeological culture that developed from the late Hallstatt period to the turn of the era (c. 6th century BC – 1st century AD). It emerged from local late Hallstatt traditions (the Nordic culture) under the influence of La Tène cultural traits, and is particularly noted […]