Papers by Joanna E . Markiewicz
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 2023
In its early Iron Age heyday, amber items were in widespread use all along the Amber Road. The am... more In its early Iron Age heyday, amber items were in widespread use all along the Amber Road. The amount, type and deposition patterns of the amber accessories varied between the particular traditions, reaching lavish standards in some of the Hallstatt graves. As the disintegration of the Hallstatt communities north of the Sudetes disrupted the connection between the Baltic coast societies and the La Tène civilisation in the south, the early La Tène period saw a dramatic decline in the amber exchange and a significant decrease in the amount of amber deposited in archaeological contexts. While in the north the amber gradually fell into disfavour, the La Tène civilisation had never abandoned it. At the same time, its deposition contexts, distribution and symbolic load seem to have changed over time.
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Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 2021
The three enormous amber deposits discovered in 1906 and 1936 in Wrocław-Partynice (Breslau-Hartl... more The three enormous amber deposits discovered in 1906 and 1936 in Wrocław-Partynice (Breslau-Hartlieb) have until now been dated to the 1st century BC, i.e. the time of the collapse of the La Tène culture settlement structures in this part of Europe. The deposits were first linked to the »Germanic« inhabitants of the site and later to the Przeworsk culture. The study of the pottery finds available in the Archaeological Museum of Wrocław, however, made us revise the site’s chronology and modify its cultural interpretation. We identified two settlement phases, which shall be dated to the time around the turn of the 3rd and 2nd century BC. The finds from the earlier phase displayed features typical of the late Jastorf horizon in the Polish Lowlands, the later phase was already early Przeworsk in character. Thus, the site seems to have been a major transportation hub on the Amber Road in the Middle La Tène period. It was chronologically contemporaneous with La Tène culture sites with amber finds, such as Nowa Cerekwia, Samborowice and the initial phase of Staré Hradisko.
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Kultura przeworska: Procesy przemian i kontakty zewnętrzne, 2019
The last three centuries BC saw dramatic cultural and economic changes in vast areas of the North... more The last three centuries BC saw dramatic cultural and economic changes in vast areas of the North European Plain. The following paper is an attempt to explain some of those changes visible in the archaeological record in the form of changing material culture patterns. For the purposes of the study, a number of younger Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement sites from the Oder River area were selected. The material they yielded was later analysed and discussed in a broader archaeological context.
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J. Markiewicz/A. Błażejewski (red.), Osada i cmentarzysko z epoki żelaza na stanowiskach Bytomi (Bytnik) 1 i 6, 2016
Opracowanie stanowi podsumowanie wyników badań archeologicznych prowadzonych w latach 2009-2012 n... more Opracowanie stanowi podsumowanie wyników badań archeologicznych prowadzonych w latach 2009-2012 na stanowisku nr 6 w podgłogowskiej miejscowości Bytnik. Znajdują się tam pozostałości wielokulturowej osady, jednak przedmiotem niniejszych studiów stały się zabytki po-hodzące z epoki żelaza oraz pojedynczy obiekt datowany na wczesną epokę brązu. Badania odbywały się pod kierownictwem dr hab. Artura Błażejewskiego z Instytutu Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Obejmowały prospekcję powierzchniową, geofizyczną, badania wykopaliskowe, analizę geomorfologii terenu, analizy pyłkowe, analizę poziomu fosforu na powierzchni objętej wykopaliska-mi w latach 2011 i 2012 oraz analizy specjalistyczne zabytków kamiennych.
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Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 2016
The settlement site in Bytomin (site no. 6, gm. Bytnik, woj. dolnośląskie / PL), at the outskirts... more The settlement site in Bytomin (site no. 6, gm. Bytnik, woj. dolnośląskie / PL), at the outskirts of the modern town of Głogów in Lower Silesia, is located on a high fluvial terrace overlooking the old Oder River valley.
Right at the foot of the terrace a small watercourse – the Czarna River – flows. The excavations conducted in the years 2009-2013 revealed a multi-phase settlement with the earliest finds associated with the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture and the youngest feature dated to the 13th century. However, the area seems to have been most densely inhabited in the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age, specifically in its A2 stage – according to the chronological system developed for the Przeworsk culture (Godłowski 1985, 13-40; Dąbrowska 1988, 14-62). This stage might be roughly dated to the latter half of the 2nd century BC and the first half of the 1st century BC. Additionally, at the neighbouring site of Bytomin (Bytnik) 1, only 300-400 m from the settlement, a multi-phase burial site was found. The cemetery, excavated in 2009, revealed 35 cremation burials, 30 of which date to the Hallstatt C period and five to the A2 phase of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age (Kuźbik in prep.).
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Śląskie Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 2012
The younger Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement at Bytomin (Bytnik) 6, near Głogów, was excavated over ... more The younger Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement at Bytomin (Bytnik) 6, near Głogów, was excavated over three excavation seasons and these had been preceded by a magnetometer survey. The remains of sunken floor buildings, kilns and other devices add to our understanding of the basic methods of subsistence used by the local community, and help establish the chronology of the settlement as the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age, phase A2. The fieldwork and post excavation analyses are still in progress, with plans to continue excavations in 2012.
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S. Hornung (Hrsg.), Produktion -Distribution -Ökonomie: Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsmuster der Latènezeit Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums in Otzenhausen, 28.-30. Oktober 2011, Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 2014
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Books by Joanna E . Markiewicz
BAR Publishing, 2019
Settlement evidence has long been an under-studied category of finds in
examining the cultural ch... more Settlement evidence has long been an under-studied category of finds in
examining the cultural changes which occurred in northern central Europe
in the final centuries BC. These changes have been widely associated with
the process of latènisation which affected most of the communities in the
North European Plain in the Iron Age. This book addresses the central
question of the mechanism and agency behind these changes, by examining
material culture patterns. The study uses data from 89 systematically
selected settlement sites located in the Oder River area, including places
of production. The data is contextualised against the evidence from other
central and northern European sites of similar chronology and against other
categories of finds from the study area. The book also contains systematic
catalogues of the examined sites, of their buildings, and of settlement
features of other kinds.
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Right at the foot of the terrace a small watercourse – the Czarna River – flows. The excavations conducted in the years 2009-2013 revealed a multi-phase settlement with the earliest finds associated with the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture and the youngest feature dated to the 13th century. However, the area seems to have been most densely inhabited in the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age, specifically in its A2 stage – according to the chronological system developed for the Przeworsk culture (Godłowski 1985, 13-40; Dąbrowska 1988, 14-62). This stage might be roughly dated to the latter half of the 2nd century BC and the first half of the 1st century BC. Additionally, at the neighbouring site of Bytomin (Bytnik) 1, only 300-400 m from the settlement, a multi-phase burial site was found. The cemetery, excavated in 2009, revealed 35 cremation burials, 30 of which date to the Hallstatt C period and five to the A2 phase of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age (Kuźbik in prep.).
Books by Joanna E . Markiewicz
examining the cultural changes which occurred in northern central Europe
in the final centuries BC. These changes have been widely associated with
the process of latènisation which affected most of the communities in the
North European Plain in the Iron Age. This book addresses the central
question of the mechanism and agency behind these changes, by examining
material culture patterns. The study uses data from 89 systematically
selected settlement sites located in the Oder River area, including places
of production. The data is contextualised against the evidence from other
central and northern European sites of similar chronology and against other
categories of finds from the study area. The book also contains systematic
catalogues of the examined sites, of their buildings, and of settlement
features of other kinds.
Right at the foot of the terrace a small watercourse – the Czarna River – flows. The excavations conducted in the years 2009-2013 revealed a multi-phase settlement with the earliest finds associated with the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture and the youngest feature dated to the 13th century. However, the area seems to have been most densely inhabited in the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age, specifically in its A2 stage – according to the chronological system developed for the Przeworsk culture (Godłowski 1985, 13-40; Dąbrowska 1988, 14-62). This stage might be roughly dated to the latter half of the 2nd century BC and the first half of the 1st century BC. Additionally, at the neighbouring site of Bytomin (Bytnik) 1, only 300-400 m from the settlement, a multi-phase burial site was found. The cemetery, excavated in 2009, revealed 35 cremation burials, 30 of which date to the Hallstatt C period and five to the A2 phase of the younger Pre-Roman Iron Age (Kuźbik in prep.).
examining the cultural changes which occurred in northern central Europe
in the final centuries BC. These changes have been widely associated with
the process of latènisation which affected most of the communities in the
North European Plain in the Iron Age. This book addresses the central
question of the mechanism and agency behind these changes, by examining
material culture patterns. The study uses data from 89 systematically
selected settlement sites located in the Oder River area, including places
of production. The data is contextualised against the evidence from other
central and northern European sites of similar chronology and against other
categories of finds from the study area. The book also contains systematic
catalogues of the examined sites, of their buildings, and of settlement
features of other kinds.