Nowa Cerekwia is one of the most important La Tène period sites in southern Poland. Its significance does not come from a single spectacular discovery, but from the exceptional diversity of finds recorded there over more than a century of research. The site has yielded settlement features, pottery, metal objects, coins, glass ornaments, stone tools, […]

The jubilee 100th issue of Archeologia Żywa is more than a special anniversary volume. It is also a broad overview of archaeological collections from across Poland, prepared with the participation of 100 museums. Seen together, the objects presented in this issue form a kind of map of contacts, movements and cultural links that connected different […]

Nowa Cerekwia has been known to archaeologists and local history enthusiasts for a long time. The first discoveries were made in 1921, while professional archaeologists arrived at the site in 1925. They were informed about the finds by Max Stiebler, a local landowner and later village head, who discovered the first Celtic pottery from the […]

A new monograph devoted to the Iron Age site of Nowa Cerekwia will be soon published under the editorship of Dr Przemysław Dulęba. The volume brings together the results of many years of research conducted at one of the most important La Tène period sites in southern Poland and offers new perspectives on the role […]

From 19 to 22 May, Joanna E. Markiewicz, Przemysław Dulęba, and Zdeněk Beneš will take part in the 26th International CELT&N Conference in Rakovník, Czech Republic. At the conference, Joanna and Przemysław will present a paper on the La Tène settlement and the pre-Roman Iron Age Przeworsk culture occupation at Polwica 4 and Skrzypnik 8 […]

The animal bone assemblage from Bytomin (Bytnik), site 6, shows clearly that the settlement economy relied mainly on domestic animals. Among 1,429 analysed finds, mammals dominated overwhelmingly, while birds, fish, and molluscs were represented only in small numbers. The most important domestic species were cattle, pigs, and sheep/goats, with cattle clearly in first place. Wild […]

Animal bones are among the most informative categories of evidence recovered during archaeological excavation, but only if they are studied systematically. On their own, bones are often fragmentary, weathered, burnt, gnawed, or displaced. Once analysed in context, however, they become a source of evidence for subsistence, herd management, butchery, craft production, the use of animals […]

The history of research at Bytomin (Bytnik) is not limited to the excavations of site 6 itself. The broader archaeological significance of this area became clear through a combination of older chance finds, rescue excavations, geophysical survey, and later systematic fieldwork, which together revealed a settlement and cemetery forming part of the same prehistoric landscape. […]

Site no. 6 in Bytomin (modern Bytnik, near Głogów, Lower Silesia) is one of the more informative settlement sites of the Younger Pre-Roman Period in the Middle Odra region. It is located on a terrace within the Odra river valley, in an environment that combined access to water, fertile loess soils, and nearby meadows suitable […]

Staré Hradisko functioned within a well-developed economic system characteristic of the Late La Tène period. The level of craft production and the organisation of settlement created favourable conditions for both local and long-distance exchange. The immediate economic hinterland of the oppidum was the fertile Haná region. Lowland settlements located there supplied agricultural products necessary for […]