Danuta Żurkiewicz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 125672 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Danuta Żurkiewicz |
| PRENOMES | Danuta |
| SOBRENOME | Żurkiewicz |
| ASSINATURA | ŻURKIEWICZ D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5219-0622 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Old-growth forest and sacred landscape with Middle Neolithic non-megalithic barrows in western Poland during the 4th millennium BCE
The introduction of agriculture, herding, and permanent settlements during the Neolithic initiated the spread of human-shaped landscapes in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Funnel Beaker culture (TRB, German: Trichterrandbecherkultur ) is listed among the groups responsible for the first major forest clearances and subsequent landscape transformations. In this article, we verify the hypothesis that TRB economy stayed in equilibrium with fores…
Searching for the ideal red
An Early Iron Age Female Funeral Site in the Ukrainian Forest-Steppe
The article reports the results of research focused on Barrow 3 in Ivanivtsi-Antonivka, Vinnitsia oblast, Ukraine, which was carried out by a Polish-Ukrainian team in 2019. This small and badly damaged barrow contained just seven features, including only two graves. The results of the multifaceted analyses indicated that despite the small number of sites, the history of the barrow can be divided into three phases – all resulting from the activity…
Far from home
After the disappearance of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in the area now known as the Polish Lowlands, we observe a heterogeneous cultural situation. The Late Band Pottery culture (LBPC) and the Stroke-Ornamented Ware culture (SBK) are distinguished here. Generally, none of these communities used grog (ground potsherds, ‘chamotte’) as the main type of clay temper. However, there are exceptions to these production rules. In this article, the pr…
The earliest traces of metallurgy in Greater Poland
During rescue excavations at Site 1 in Kotowo in 1958, a ceramic tube was discovered in a feature of the Funnel Beaker culture. Currently, XRF analysis suggests that it is a ceramic tuyère associated with copper processing. The feature, radiocarbon dated to 3911–3714 BC (68.3% probability), most likely housed a metalworking workshop. The artefact from Kotowo has several analogues in the Polish lands, mainly from sites of the Lengyel-Polgár cultur…
Barrows in the forest-steppe between the Dniester and Southern Bug, Ukraine. Initial results of comprehensive research
The article presents the preliminary results of research by a Polish-Ukrainian team who in 2018-2023 worked on the project of comprehensive exploration of barrows situated in the forest-steppe between the Southern Bug and Dniester in modern Ukraine. There, two major stages of erecting and using barrows were distinguished for the 3rd and 1st millennia BC. Two barrows discussed herein, explored as part of the project, were erected in the second sta…
Yampil barrows from the fourth and IIIrd millenium BC in the light of Polish-Ukrainian investigations 2010-2014
In the vicinity of Yampil (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine), there exists a cluster of barrows dating back to the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Nestled upon the Podillia Upland, this concentration lies at the crossroads of two cultural spheres: the Eastern European steppe and Central European. The exploration of the Yampil barrows began during the 1980s by archaeologists from Vinnytsia. This endeavor was enriched by a Polish-Ukrainian expedition tha…
Deposits of Funnel Beaker culture vessels in wells
This article presents the extraordinary discoveries of ceramic vessel deposits in wells of the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC). Such a custom is observed in all groups of this community but is of particular importance in the Eastern group of the FBC. In central Poland (Kuyavia) specifically, there are many objects of this type compared to older materials of the Linear Pottery culture. The analysis of the local contexts of these finds allows for the h…
In search for an island – Non-invasive, geoarchaeological investigations in Bruszczewo microregion (Central-western Poland)
Middle part of the Samica Valley in Western Poland, also known as the Bruszczewo microregion, witnessed several occupational phases during the prehistoric times. The archive geoarchaeological research documented presence of the lake in the past which had demise around 250 BCE and it was overgrown by peat deposits. During the LIDAR elevation model analysis a ridge in the central part of the basin was detected and hypothesized as an esker and a pro…
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC
The article presents the history of research and the latest archaeological discoveries of the Greater Poland Neolithic in the Middle Warta River catchment. I propose focusing on new areas of research that have potential but have not yet been conducted. It focuses on two social groups, the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) and the Brześć Kujawski culture (BKC). The unsatisfactory level of knowledge about the development of these cultural communities in …
Pierwsze długie grobowce ziemne w centralnej Wielkopolsce
Artykuł opisuje wyniki sondażowych prac wykopaliskowych przeprowadzonych na jednym z pierwszych rozpoznanych nad środkową Wartą cmentarzysk megalitycznych kultury pucharów lejkowatych. W trakcie wykopali zbadano powierzchnię 80m2 obejmująca czoła dwóch z pięciu grobowców zlokalizowanych na cmentarzysku. Pozyskano materiały związane z kultura przeworską i kulturą pucharów lejkowatych. Z przepalonych kości zwierzęcych (?) ulokowanych w nasypie jedn…
Non-Invasive Investigation of Burial Mounds in the Basins of the Murafa and Riv Rivers in Vinnytsia Region in 2019
In 2019, the implementation of the first stage of the field investigations within the project «Podolia as a contact area in the 3rd millennium BC: Kurgans on the rivers Murafa and Riv» began. The project is financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, under no. 2017/27/B/HS3/01444. The main goal of the research is to identify the forms and intensity of the intercultural contacts in the region of the middle course of the Southern Buh and the D…
Lost and found
Non-megalithic long barrows were the earliest type of monumental tombs that occurred in Europe. The oldest structures of this type, dating to 4800-4300 BC, are known from north- western France. Then, at the beginning of the 4 th millennium BC, unchambered structures occurred in southern and central England, northern and central Germany, Denmark, and Poland. In Poland, tombs representing the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB) are found in several distinc…
Why do we need to weigh burned daub? Destruction of wattle-and-daub houses and the internal chronology of Neolithic sites
Changes in Late Funnel Beaker Pottery at the End of the 4th Millennium BC on the Polish Lowland
Archaeological site no. 3 at Mrowino is located on the Polish Lowland, in the Greater Poland region. It was excavated from 1973 until 1980. The excavation produced very rich movable finds, with the core of them being formed by Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) ceramics. The collections hold over 37,500 FBC pottery shards and several intact or reconstructed vessels. The vast majority of pottery comes from an FBC settlement dated to 3300-3150 BC. The pot…
Great expectations
This paper examines the political, legal and organisational aspects of rescue excavations carried out in advance of motorway construction in Poland during the last 20 years. This analysis tries to determine why this comprehensive and ambitious programme was downgraded ten years after its launch and now bears little resemblance to the original concept. Why, despite the existence of an appropriate legal framework and the supervision, was it possibl…
The Eneolithic Ritual Barrow Complex in Prydnistrianske, Vinnystia Oblast
The article presents the results of magnetometric surveys carried out in the village of Pridnistryanske on two barrow sites. In the site 1, the principal objectives were to capture the course of barrow ditches - not covered by the excavations - and investigate the space between the mounds. On site 2 relying on photographs was a group of nearby barrows selected for geophysical investigations
Ritual position and “tattooing ” techniques in the funeral practices of the “barrow cultures” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe / forest steppe area. Porohy 3A, Yampil Region, Vinnytsia Oblast
The present paper discusses the results of an interdisciplinary study of human remains in the form of two ulnae from a female skeleton found in grave 10, Porohy 3A site (Middle Dniester Area), dated to Early Bronze Age: 2650-2500 BC. The paper describes the technical aspects of applying the decorations revealed in the examination of the aforementioned bones
Use of wood in Yampil Barrow Complex funerary rituals IV-II mill. BC
This article presents the results of analyses of relics made out of wood that were discovered during the investigation of the Yampil Barrow Complex (Ukraine, Vinnitsa Oblast) in the period 2010-2015 in respect to the graves of Eneolithic communities, Yamnaya culture, Catacomb culture, Noua culture and the Iron Age. The research has documented a process of the selection of wood used in funerary rituals in the 4th to 2nd mill. BC and the choice of …
Eneolithic, Yamnaya and Noua Culture Cemeteries from the First Half of the 3Rd and the Middle of the 2Nd Millennium Bc, Porohy, Site 3A, Yampil Region, Vinnitsa Oblast
The paper presents the results of excavations and analytical studies regarding the taxonomic classification of a funeral site associated with the societies of ‘barrow cultures’ of the north-western Black Sea Coast in the first half of the 3rd and the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. The study discusses the ceremonial centres of the Eneolithic, Yamnaya and Noua cultures
Chronometry of Late Eneolithic and ‘Early Bronze’ Cultures in the Middle Dniester Area
The paper discusses the 2010-2015 studies of the radiocarbon chronology of Podolia ‘barrow cultures’ on the left bank of the middle Dniester. The studies have relied on series of 14C dates for the Klembivka 1, Pidlisivka 1, Porohy 3A and Prydnistryanske 1 sites determined in Kyiv and Poznań laboratories. They are the first attempt to construct a regional (‘Yampil’) radiocarbon scale for ‘Early Bronze’ funerary rites (4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC) as…
Chronometry of Late Eneolithic and ‘Early Bronze’ Cultures in the Middle Dniester Area
The paper discusses the 2010-2015 studies of the radiocarbon chronology of Podolia ‘barrow cultures’ on the left bank of the middle Dniester. The studies have relied on series of 14C dates for the Klembivka 1, Pidlisivka 1, Porohy 3A and Prydnistryanske 1 sites determined in Kyiv and Poznań laboratories. They are the first attempt to construct a regional (‘Yampil’) radiocarbon scale for ‘Early Bronze’ funerary rites (4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC) as…
The earliest traces of metallurgy in Greater Poland
During rescue excavations at Site 1 in Kotowo in 1958, a ceramic tube was discovered in a feature of the Funnel Beaker culture. Currently, XRF analysis suggests that it is a ceramic tuyère associated with copper processing. The feature, radiocarbon dated to 3911–3714 BC (68.3% probability), most likely housed a metalworking workshop. The artefact from Kotowo has several analogues in the Polish lands, mainly from sites of the Lengyel-Polgár cultur…
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC
The article presents the history of research and the latest archaeological discoveries of the Greater Poland Neolithic in the Middle Warta River catchment. I propose focusing on new areas of research that have potential but have not yet been conducted. It focuses on two social groups, the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) and the Brześć Kujawski culture (BKC). The unsatisfactory level of knowledge about the development of these cultural communities in …
Why do we need to weigh burned daub? Destruction of wattle-and-daub houses and the internal chronology of Neolithic sites
Eneolithic, Yamnaya and Noua Culture Cemeteries from the First Half of the 3Rd and the Middle of the 2Nd Millennium Bc, Porohy, Site 3A, Yampil Region, Vinnitsa Oblast
The paper presents the results of excavations and analytical studies regarding the taxonomic classification of a funeral site associated with the societies of ‘barrow cultures’ of the north-western Black Sea Coast in the first half of the 3rd and the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. The study discusses the ceremonial centres of the Eneolithic, Yamnaya and Noua cultures
Chronometry of Late Eneolithic and ‘Early Bronze’ Cultures in the Middle Dniester Area
The paper discusses the 2010-2015 studies of the radiocarbon chronology of Podolia ‘barrow cultures’ on the left bank of the middle Dniester. The studies have relied on series of 14C dates for the Klembivka 1, Pidlisivka 1, Porohy 3A and Prydnistryanske 1 sites determined in Kyiv and Poznań laboratories. They are the first attempt to construct a regional (‘Yampil’) radiocarbon scale for ‘Early Bronze’ funerary rites (4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC) as…
The Eneolithic Ritual Barrow Complex in Prydnistrianske, Vinnystia Oblast
The article presents the results of magnetometric surveys carried out in the village of Pridnistryanske on two barrow sites. In the site 1, the principal objectives were to capture the course of barrow ditches - not covered by the excavations - and investigate the space between the mounds. On site 2 relying on photographs was a group of nearby barrows selected for geophysical investigations
Ritual position and “tattooing ” techniques in the funeral practices of the “barrow cultures” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe / forest steppe area. Porohy 3A, Yampil Region, Vinnytsia Oblast
The present paper discusses the results of an interdisciplinary study of human remains in the form of two ulnae from a female skeleton found in grave 10, Porohy 3A site (Middle Dniester Area), dated to Early Bronze Age: 2650-2500 BC. The paper describes the technical aspects of applying the decorations revealed in the examination of the aforementioned bones
Use of wood in Yampil Barrow Complex funerary rituals IV-II mill. BC
This article presents the results of analyses of relics made out of wood that were discovered during the investigation of the Yampil Barrow Complex (Ukraine, Vinnitsa Oblast) in the period 2010-2015 in respect to the graves of Eneolithic communities, Yamnaya culture, Catacomb culture, Noua culture and the Iron Age. The research has documented a process of the selection of wood used in funerary rituals in the 4th to 2nd mill. BC and the choice of …
Great expectations
This paper examines the political, legal and organisational aspects of rescue excavations carried out in advance of motorway construction in Poland during the last 20 years. This analysis tries to determine why this comprehensive and ambitious programme was downgraded ten years after its launch and now bears little resemblance to the original concept. Why, despite the existence of an appropriate legal framework and the supervision, was it possibl…
Changes in Late Funnel Beaker Pottery at the End of the 4th Millennium BC on the Polish Lowland
Archaeological site no. 3 at Mrowino is located on the Polish Lowland, in the Greater Poland region. It was excavated from 1973 until 1980. The excavation produced very rich movable finds, with the core of them being formed by Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) ceramics. The collections hold over 37,500 FBC pottery shards and several intact or reconstructed vessels. The vast majority of pottery comes from an FBC settlement dated to 3300-3150 BC. The pot…
Non-Invasive Investigation of Burial Mounds in the Basins of the Murafa and Riv Rivers in Vinnytsia Region in 2019
In 2019, the implementation of the first stage of the field investigations within the project «Podolia as a contact area in the 3rd millennium BC: Kurgans on the rivers Murafa and Riv» began. The project is financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, under no. 2017/27/B/HS3/01444. The main goal of the research is to identify the forms and intensity of the intercultural contacts in the region of the middle course of the Southern Buh and the D…
Lost and found
Non-megalithic long barrows were the earliest type of monumental tombs that occurred in Europe. The oldest structures of this type, dating to 4800-4300 BC, are known from north- western France. Then, at the beginning of the 4 th millennium BC, unchambered structures occurred in southern and central England, northern and central Germany, Denmark, and Poland. In Poland, tombs representing the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB) are found in several distinc…
Why do we need to weigh burned daub? Destruction of wattle-and-daub houses and the internal chronology of Neolithic sites
Deposits of Funnel Beaker culture vessels in wells
This article presents the extraordinary discoveries of ceramic vessel deposits in wells of the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC). Such a custom is observed in all groups of this community but is of particular importance in the Eastern group of the FBC. In central Poland (Kuyavia) specifically, there are many objects of this type compared to older materials of the Linear Pottery culture. The analysis of the local contexts of these finds allows for the h…
In search for an island – Non-invasive, geoarchaeological investigations in Bruszczewo microregion (Central-western Poland)
Middle part of the Samica Valley in Western Poland, also known as the Bruszczewo microregion, witnessed several occupational phases during the prehistoric times. The archive geoarchaeological research documented presence of the lake in the past which had demise around 250 BCE and it was overgrown by peat deposits. During the LIDAR elevation model analysis a ridge in the central part of the basin was detected and hypothesized as an esker and a pro…
Colonists and Natives. The Beginning of the Eneolithic in the Middle Warta Catchment. 4500–3500 BC
The article presents the history of research and the latest archaeological discoveries of the Greater Poland Neolithic in the Middle Warta River catchment. I propose focusing on new areas of research that have potential but have not yet been conducted. It focuses on two social groups, the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) and the Brześć Kujawski culture (BKC). The unsatisfactory level of knowledge about the development of these cultural communities in …
Pierwsze długie grobowce ziemne w centralnej Wielkopolsce
Artykuł opisuje wyniki sondażowych prac wykopaliskowych przeprowadzonych na jednym z pierwszych rozpoznanych nad środkową Wartą cmentarzysk megalitycznych kultury pucharów lejkowatych. W trakcie wykopali zbadano powierzchnię 80m2 obejmująca czoła dwóch z pięciu grobowców zlokalizowanych na cmentarzysku. Pozyskano materiały związane z kultura przeworską i kulturą pucharów lejkowatych. Z przepalonych kości zwierzęcych (?) ulokowanych w nasypie jedn…
The earliest traces of metallurgy in Greater Poland
During rescue excavations at Site 1 in Kotowo in 1958, a ceramic tube was discovered in a feature of the Funnel Beaker culture. Currently, XRF analysis suggests that it is a ceramic tuyère associated with copper processing. The feature, radiocarbon dated to 3911–3714 BC (68.3% probability), most likely housed a metalworking workshop. The artefact from Kotowo has several analogues in the Polish lands, mainly from sites of the Lengyel-Polgár cultur…
Barrows in the forest-steppe between the Dniester and Southern Bug, Ukraine. Initial results of comprehensive research
The article presents the preliminary results of research by a Polish-Ukrainian team who in 2018-2023 worked on the project of comprehensive exploration of barrows situated in the forest-steppe between the Southern Bug and Dniester in modern Ukraine. There, two major stages of erecting and using barrows were distinguished for the 3rd and 1st millennia BC. Two barrows discussed herein, explored as part of the project, were erected in the second sta…
Yampil barrows from the fourth and IIIrd millenium BC in the light of Polish-Ukrainian investigations 2010-2014
In the vicinity of Yampil (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine), there exists a cluster of barrows dating back to the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Nestled upon the Podillia Upland, this concentration lies at the crossroads of two cultural spheres: the Eastern European steppe and Central European. The exploration of the Yampil barrows began during the 1980s by archaeologists from Vinnytsia. This endeavor was enriched by a Polish-Ukrainian expedition tha…
Far from home
After the disappearance of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in the area now known as the Polish Lowlands, we observe a heterogeneous cultural situation. The Late Band Pottery culture (LBPC) and the Stroke-Ornamented Ware culture (SBK) are distinguished here. Generally, none of these communities used grog (ground potsherds, ‘chamotte’) as the main type of clay temper. However, there are exceptions to these production rules. In this article, the pr…
An Early Iron Age Female Funeral Site in the Ukrainian Forest-Steppe
The article reports the results of research focused on Barrow 3 in Ivanivtsi-Antonivka, Vinnitsia oblast, Ukraine, which was carried out by a Polish-Ukrainian team in 2019. This small and badly damaged barrow contained just seven features, including only two graves. The results of the multifaceted analyses indicated that despite the small number of sites, the history of the barrow can be divided into three phases – all resulting from the activity…
Old-growth forest and sacred landscape with Middle Neolithic non-megalithic barrows in western Poland during the 4th millennium BCE
The introduction of agriculture, herding, and permanent settlements during the Neolithic initiated the spread of human-shaped landscapes in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Funnel Beaker culture (TRB, German: Trichterrandbecherkultur ) is listed among the groups responsible for the first major forest clearances and subsequent landscape transformations. In this article, we verify the hypothesis that TRB economy stayed in equilibrium with fores…
Searching for the ideal red
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (18 obras) · Archaeology (17 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 obras) · History (10 obras) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (8 obras) · Ancient history (7 obras) · Bronze Age (7 obras) · Geology (7 obras) · Beaker (6 obras)