The 14th excavation season at the La Tène settlement in Samborowice, Racibórz district, is officially underway. Conducted wth our research partners from the University of Wrocław and the Silesian Museum in Katowice, this year’s fieldwork combines systematic archaeological excavation with extensive sampling for specialist scientific analyses. Samborowice remains one of the most significant sites for […]

In August, fieldwork will resume at the La Tène settlement in Samborowice, Racibórz district. The new season will include both archaeological excavations and the collection of samples for specialist analyses. Samborowice is one of the key sites for studying Iron Age settlement in Upper Silesia. Previous excavations have revealed the remains of settlement features, including […]

Nowa Cerekwia is often described as one of the most important La Tène sites north of the Carpathians. But this raises a simple question: why here? The answer was probably not only fertile land, although that certainly mattered. The settlement lay in a region attractive for agriculture, on the northern foreland of the Moravian Gate […]

The La Tène settlement at Nowa Cerekwia is usually discussed as one of the most important Celtic sites north of the Carpathians. Its pottery, metal finds, coins and evidence of craft production clearly place it within the La Tène cultural world. Yet the settlement also produced material that does not fit this tradition so easily. […]

The Iron Age was not only the age of iron. Although iron dominated the production of tools and weapons, objects made of copper alloys remained an important part of material culture, especially in the case of ornaments, dress accessories and small decorative items. A recent study by Joanna Ewa Markiewicz, Dawid Sych and Beata Miazga […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]