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Geoarcheological Workshop – Actual stage of the

Workshop Reports
environmental archeology investigations in southern
Poland and northern Czech Republic
Poznań, Poland, 25 October 2011
Lenka Lisa1, A. Wiśniewski2 and K. Issmer3
1
Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; lisa@gli.cas.cz
2
Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland; 3Institute Geoecology and Geoinformatics, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznań, Poland

G eoarcheology brings together


many disciplines such as geology,
geomorphology, archeology, paleo-
implications for paleoclimate research.
The presentations mainly concentrated
on the Late Pleistocene and Middle
The major outcomes from the meet-
ing in Poznań are plans for a new co-
operation, especially within the scope
botany or zoology. The traditional geo- to Late Paleolithic (130-12 ka BP), for of the study of the Late Paleolithic in
archeological approach is based mainly which archeological evidences are the historical region of Silesia. One ex-
on geological and soil science methods, more frequent than for earlier periods. ample is the transfer of methodological
but during the last 20 years detailed The organizers had invited a range knowledge between institutes from the
microstratigraphic studies and analyses of specialists from the Czech Republic Czech Republic and Poland. The par-
of microfacies have become more and and Poland to discuss “key” questions ticipants agreed to build a network for
more important (Courty 2001). These of the Late Pleistocene stratigraphy sharing such information. Until now,
approaches were recognized as essen- and Paleolithic evidences from south- the exchange of knowledge between
tial to recover and understand the full ern Poland. Topics addressed ranged the Polish and Czech groups was rather
cultural and environmental potential of from subsistence strategies of Late scant and it was decided that an impor-
archeological deposits (Goldberg and Paleolithic hunter groups to the MIS3- tant step to improve it would be to des-
Macphail 2006). MIS1 stratigraphical records in the re- ignate a contact person in each country
The main aim of this workshop was gion (Połtowicz-Bobak 2009; Wiśniewski who will share the information about
to initiate scientific discussion on the et al. in press; Bobak and Poltowicz- forthcoming meetings. The contact per-
new challenges for geoarcheology in Bobak, in press). In addition, applica- sons for the Polish part are Katarzyna
Central Europe. Scientifically, the focus tions of relatively new methodological Issmer and Andrzej Wiśniewski. The
was on ongoing environmental arche- approaches for the field were present- contact person on the Czech side is
ology research in southern Poland and ed, such as microstratigraphy, isotopic Lenka Lisa. Another approach to fa-
the northern Czech Republic, and their studies or GIS analyses (see Skrzypek cilitate communication in the scien-
et al. 2011). In total, nine presentations tific community is the creation of two
raised questions about chronological virtual groups on the social network
accuracy in the context of terrestrial and Facebook with the title “Quaternary
marine data as well as chronostratig- Group” (www.facebook.com/#!/
raphy from the view-point of archeol- groups/253485648040066/) and
ogy (e.g. Fig 1; Wiśniewski, University of “Zooarchaeology and Paleonthology”
Wrocław; Bobak, University of Rzeszów) (www.facebook.com/#!/groups/pale-
and sedimentology (Lisa, Institute of ontologie/). Also, a scientific platform
Geology, Academy of Sciences of the for Central Europe was set up (http://
Czech Republic; Kalicky, University geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/sas/en/egp/index.
of Kielce), subsistence strategies in php).
the context of environmental chang- This workshop was support-
es (Łanczont, University of Lublin; ed by the Polish Association for
Madeyska, Polish Academy of Science; Environmental Archeology and the A.
Warszawa, Połtowicz-Bobak, University Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and
of Rzeszów; e.g. Boguckyj et al. 2009, was endorsed by PAGES.
Sytnyk et al. 2012) and on the paleo-
zoological records of environmental References
change (Nadachowski, Polish Academy Boguckyj AB et al. (2009) Quaternary International 198: 173-194
of Sciences; Kraków, University of Jasiewicz J and Hildebrandt-Radke I (2009) Journal of Archaeological
Science 36: 2096-2107
Wrocław; Nadachowski 2011). Finally, Nadachowski A et al. (2011) Quaternary International 243: 204-218
Iwona Hildebrant-Radke (Mickiewicz Skrzypek G, Wiśniewski A and Grierson PF (2011) Quaternary Science
University Poznań) presented new Reviews 30: 481-487

Figure 1: Excavation trench from the Late Pleistocene methodological aspects for the use Wiśniewski A et al. (in press) Quaternary International, doi: 10.1016/j.
quaint.2011.09.016
archeological site Sowin in the Silesian region of of GIS in geoarcheological investiga-
Southwestern Poland. The profile shows three main tions (Jasiewicz and Hildebrand-Radke
stratigraphic units (recent soil, eolian sands, and sand-
clayish sediments) and anthropogenic charcoal depo- 2009). The presentations were followed
sition. Photo by A. Wisniewski. by plenary discussions.
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