Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna
Biographic Data
| ID | 6054181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnieszka |
| FAMILY NAME | Brzeska-Zastawna |
| SIGNATURE | BRZESKA-ZASTAWNA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9704-8320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Burying iron at Tyniec, Maszkowice, and elsewhere
Recent discoveries of hoards composed of iron objects in Lesser Poland suggest the existence of a specific cultural norm of deposition and a high valorisation of this metal at the onset of the Early Iron Age (750-550 BC). By broadening the scope of analysis to include single finds of ‘large irons’ and comparing them with burial assemblages, a contrasting picture of regional dichotomy emerges. It is manifested in differing practices of iron deposi…
The Department of Stone Age Archaeology of the Institute of Archeology of Jagiellonian University in the last half-century
The Department of Stone Age Archaeology of the Institute of Archeology of Jagiellonian University was established in 1985. Its first director was Professor Bolesław Ginter. In the first years, the focus was on fieldwork in Egypt. Further activity covered the Palaeolithic layers of caves in today’s Bulgaria (Bacho Kiro, Temnata) and Greece (Klissoura) and southern Poland (Ciemna and Obłazowa Caves). Upper Palaeolithic open sites in the Váh River v…
On the edge of Prehistory. Preliminary results of excavations at three Chalcolithic and Bronze Age sites in southern Jordan
This article summarizes the research conducted between 2019 and 2022 by a Jagiellonian University (JU) team at three important sites in southern Jordan: Umm Tuweyrat, Wadi Quseir/Huseiniya, and Wadi Faynan 731. The data gathered provide new perspectives on population groups inhabiting the southern part of modern Jordan during Late Prehistory and give insights provoking reconsiderations of previous assumptions. The excavated sites offer new vantag…
A superb axe-head of G-type flint from the vicinity of Bronocice as a reason to consider the production of macrolithic four-sided tools in the Eneolithic of Lesser Poland
This article presents the study of a unique artefact in the form of a very large trapezoidal axe-head with rectangular section from Słupów, Lesser Poland, against the background of Eneolithic phenomena occurring in the area. The specimen is in the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków since 1929, but has not been discussed until now. It was made by local communities from flint of the G variety, a raw material exploited by Eneolithic g…
Eneolithic grave with vessels of the so-called milk jug type from Zakrzowiec, site 7, Wieliczka district, Lesser Poland
In 2005, during rescue archaeological excavations preceding the building of the A-4 motorway, at site no. 7 in Zakrzowiec, Wieliczka district, an object interpreted as a grave of the Wyciąże-Złotniki group of the Lengyel-Polgár complex was discovered. A human skeleton has not been preserved. The grave furnishings consisted of two amphorae of the “milk jug” type (German term: milchtopf, Hungarian term: tejesköcsög). Vessels of this type belong to …
The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland
In the years 2006-2011, at the site Więckowice 4, rescue excavations were carried out in the eastern part of anextensive (over 15 ha) multicultural zone. The most numerous are the remains of the LBK settlement from the “music note” phase. The south-eastern part of the settlement was explored, discovering lines of building pits and post holes belonging to 3-4 longhouses. A particularly unique discovery was a fragment of a LBK vessel with powdered …
Flint axes from the Funnel Beaker and Funnel Beaker-Baden settlement phases at site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district
Wykopaliska na miejscu 1 w Książnicach Wielkich prowadzone były w latach 1921–1924 przez Józefa Żurowskiego. Jest to jedno z najważniejszych miejsc kultury pucharów lejkowatych (FBC) w zachodniej Małopolsce. Materiały FBC z elementami Baden zostały opublikowane przez Barbarę Burchard i Annę Eker, a groby kultury Corded Ware - Jan Machnik (Burchard i Eker 1964; Machnik 1964). Artykuł koncentruje się na zagadnieniach związanych z osiami krzemienia …
Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków
In 1964 Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, located 45 km east of Kraków. These materials were obtained 40 years earlier by Józef Żurowski, a Krakow archaeologist, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924, discovering the settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture and the Corded Ware culture cemetery. J. Żurowski has never published the results of his research, an…
HLC Project 2018
A complex view of the prehistory in southern Jordan emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of fieldwork at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of finds from the previous season were underway. Human communities living here in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natur…
Reutilization of axes made from Jurassic flint in G variant on the example of the materials from site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district, Małopolska Province
Excavations at the Książnice Wielkie 1 site were carried out in the 1920s by Józef Żurowski. The site is known to Neolithic researchers primarily as a settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture (Burchard, Eker 1964) and as a cemetery of the Corded Ware culture (Machnik 1964). Furthermore, ceramic materials found there became the basis for distinguishing the Wyciąże-Książnice group of the Proto-Baden horizon (Kozłowski 1971; 1989), which refers to th…
The Acheulean handaxes from Faysaliyya (Shawbak directorate, southwestern Jordan), 2017 season
This paper presents the inventory of 23 Lower Paleolithic handaxes surface collected at the Faysaliyya archaeological site in 2017. The purpose of the paper is to inform about a new collection of handaxes found in the highland region of southern Jordan, provide its detailed description, and draw some preliminary conclusions which may be useful for further studies on numerous lithics materials from Faysaliyya. The site is located in southwestern J…
Flint axes from the Funnel Beaker and Funnel Beaker-Baden settlement phases at site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district
Wykopaliska na miejscu 1 w Książnicach Wielkich prowadzone były w latach 1921–1924 przez Józefa Żurowskiego. Jest to jedno z najważniejszych miejsc kultury pucharów lejkowatych (FBC) w zachodniej Małopolsce. Materiały FBC z elementami Baden zostały opublikowane przez Barbarę Burchard i Annę Eker, a groby kultury Corded Ware - Jan Machnik (Burchard i Eker 1964; Machnik 1964). Artykuł koncentruje się na zagadnieniach związanych z osiami krzemienia …
Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków
In 1964 Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, located 45 km east of Kraków. These materials were obtained 40 years earlier by Józef Żurowski, a Krakow archaeologist, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924, discovering the settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture and the Corded Ware culture cemetery. J. Żurowski has never published the results of his research, an…
Reutilization of axes made from Jurassic flint in G variant on the example of the materials from site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district, Małopolska Province
Excavations at the Książnice Wielkie 1 site were carried out in the 1920s by Józef Żurowski. The site is known to Neolithic researchers primarily as a settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture (Burchard, Eker 1964) and as a cemetery of the Corded Ware culture (Machnik 1964). Furthermore, ceramic materials found there became the basis for distinguishing the Wyciąże-Książnice group of the Proto-Baden horizon (Kozłowski 1971; 1989), which refers to th…
The Acheulean handaxes from Faysaliyya (Shawbak directorate, southwestern Jordan), 2017 season
This paper presents the inventory of 23 Lower Paleolithic handaxes surface collected at the Faysaliyya archaeological site in 2017. The purpose of the paper is to inform about a new collection of handaxes found in the highland region of southern Jordan, provide its detailed description, and draw some preliminary conclusions which may be useful for further studies on numerous lithics materials from Faysaliyya. The site is located in southwestern J…
HLC Project 2018
A complex view of the prehistory in southern Jordan emerges from the excavations of the Jagiellonian University team, which carried out in 2018 its second season of fieldwork at the sites of Munqata’a and Faysaliyya, even as analyses of finds from the previous season were underway. Human communities living here in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age practiced both sedentary and mobile lifestyles. The changing landscape around them, caused by natur…
Flint axes from the Funnel Beaker and Funnel Beaker-Baden settlement phases at site 1 in Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district
Wykopaliska na miejscu 1 w Książnicach Wielkich prowadzone były w latach 1921–1924 przez Józefa Żurowskiego. Jest to jedno z najważniejszych miejsc kultury pucharów lejkowatych (FBC) w zachodniej Małopolsce. Materiały FBC z elementami Baden zostały opublikowane przez Barbarę Burchard i Annę Eker, a groby kultury Corded Ware - Jan Machnik (Burchard i Eker 1964; Machnik 1964). Artykuł koncentruje się na zagadnieniach związanych z osiami krzemienia …
Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków
In 1964 Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, located 45 km east of Kraków. These materials were obtained 40 years earlier by Józef Żurowski, a Krakow archaeologist, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924, discovering the settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture and the Corded Ware culture cemetery. J. Żurowski has never published the results of his research, an…
The first find of LBK graphite-coated pottery in Lesser Poland
In the years 2006-2011, at the site Więckowice 4, rescue excavations were carried out in the eastern part of anextensive (over 15 ha) multicultural zone. The most numerous are the remains of the LBK settlement from the “music note” phase. The south-eastern part of the settlement was explored, discovering lines of building pits and post holes belonging to 3-4 longhouses. A particularly unique discovery was a fragment of a LBK vessel with powdered …
The Department of Stone Age Archaeology of the Institute of Archeology of Jagiellonian University in the last half-century
The Department of Stone Age Archaeology of the Institute of Archeology of Jagiellonian University was established in 1985. Its first director was Professor Bolesław Ginter. In the first years, the focus was on fieldwork in Egypt. Further activity covered the Palaeolithic layers of caves in today’s Bulgaria (Bacho Kiro, Temnata) and Greece (Klissoura) and southern Poland (Ciemna and Obłazowa Caves). Upper Palaeolithic open sites in the Váh River v…
On the edge of Prehistory. Preliminary results of excavations at three Chalcolithic and Bronze Age sites in southern Jordan
This article summarizes the research conducted between 2019 and 2022 by a Jagiellonian University (JU) team at three important sites in southern Jordan: Umm Tuweyrat, Wadi Quseir/Huseiniya, and Wadi Faynan 731. The data gathered provide new perspectives on population groups inhabiting the southern part of modern Jordan during Late Prehistory and give insights provoking reconsiderations of previous assumptions. The excavated sites offer new vantag…
A superb axe-head of G-type flint from the vicinity of Bronocice as a reason to consider the production of macrolithic four-sided tools in the Eneolithic of Lesser Poland
This article presents the study of a unique artefact in the form of a very large trapezoidal axe-head with rectangular section from Słupów, Lesser Poland, against the background of Eneolithic phenomena occurring in the area. The specimen is in the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków since 1929, but has not been discussed until now. It was made by local communities from flint of the G variety, a raw material exploited by Eneolithic g…
Eneolithic grave with vessels of the so-called milk jug type from Zakrzowiec, site 7, Wieliczka district, Lesser Poland
In 2005, during rescue archaeological excavations preceding the building of the A-4 motorway, at site no. 7 in Zakrzowiec, Wieliczka district, an object interpreted as a grave of the Wyciąże-Złotniki group of the Lengyel-Polgár complex was discovered. A human skeleton has not been preserved. The grave furnishings consisted of two amphorae of the “milk jug” type (German term: milchtopf, Hungarian term: tejesköcsög). Vessels of this type belong to …
Burying iron at Tyniec, Maszkowice, and elsewhere
Recent discoveries of hoards composed of iron objects in Lesser Poland suggest the existence of a specific cultural norm of deposition and a high valorisation of this metal at the onset of the Early Iron Age (750-550 BC). By broadening the scope of analysis to include single finds of ‘large irons’ and comparing them with burial assemblages, a contrasting picture of regional dichotomy emerges. It is manifested in differing practices of iron deposi…
Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (8 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (7 works) · Bronze Age (5 works) · Excavation (5 works) · Settlement (finance) (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Art (3 works)