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 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 […]