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Research paper thumbnail of The Sacred Lake Project: preliminary findings from the Lusatian site of Papowo Biskupie, Poland

Antiquity, Jan 24, 2024

In 2023, prospection of a dried-out lake near Papowo Biskupie in north-central Poland identified ... more In 2023, prospection of a dried-out lake near Papowo Biskupie in north-central Poland identified substantial deposits of bronze artefacts. Excavation revealed further deposits and dozens of human skeletons that date from 1000-400 BC, suggesting that the site held particular significance as a place for sacrificial offerings in the Lusatian culture.

Research paper thumbnail of Author response for "Local or imported? The origin of the raw material used in manufacturing bricks from castles of the Teutonic knights in north‐central Poland and their significance to our understanding of medieval construction techniques

Research paper thumbnail of Wiechselian glaciations in mid-northern Poland: Chronology and palaeogeography in the light of OSL dating

Research paper thumbnail of A Final Bronze Age hoard from Cierpice, Poland: new evidence for the use and deposition of a horse bridle in the region

Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Sep 10, 2023

Im Herbst 2020 entdeckte eine Gruppe von Detektorgängern auf einer bewaldeten Düne in der Nähe de... more Im Herbst 2020 entdeckte eine Gruppe von Detektorgängern auf einer bewaldeten Düne in der Nähe des Dorfes Cierpice in Nordzentralpolen 150 Bronzefunde. Der Fund umfasst Backenstücke, Phalerae, Rasselund Terretringe sowie Zügelmanschetten mit Drahtgliedern, die einst Teil eines Pferdezaumzeugs aus der Endbronzezeit waren. Die Zaumzeugteile wurden zusammen mit einem Tüllenbeil in Pflanzenfasern eingewickelt und dann sorgfältig in einen organischen Beutel gelegt, der verrottet war. In diesem Artikel werden die Ergebnisse der archäologischen, metallographischen und paläobotanischen Untersuchungen des Hortes vorgestellt und diskutiert, unterstützt durch andere archäologisch dokumentierte Daten. Diese werden mit den Mustern der Bewegung und des Verbrauchs von Metallwaren im heutigen Polen während der Lausitzer Periode und dem weiteren Kontext der nordeuropäischen Bronzezeit in Beziehung gesetzt.

Research paper thumbnail of Geomorphological and sedimentological records of glacial events in the northern marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull, Iceland, since the Little Ice Age

Jökull

We present geomorphological mapping of glacilacustrine and glacifluvial landforms and lithofacies... more We present geomorphological mapping of glacilacustrine and glacifluvial landforms and lithofacies analysis of deposits in the northern part of the marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull as it retreated from its Little Ice Age (LIA) maximum. This is the first time that this type of study has been conducted in the marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull. Landforms identified included preserved shorelines, small wave-cut platforms, fossil deltas and a kame terrace, all associated with ice-dammed lakes. Lake, delta and kame depositional environments were interpreted on the basis of sedimentological analysis. Ice-dammed lakes developed in the northern part of the forefield as a result of Tungnaárjökull damming the outflow of meltwater between its snout and the Jökulgrindur volcanic ridge. Based on historical maps and aerial photographs the damming of meltwater was probably associated with the 1945 surge.

Research paper thumbnail of A Spatial Model of Forest Area in the Middle Ages Based on Historical, Archaeological and Geographic Data: A Case Study of 13th-Century Chełmno Land (North-Central Poland)

Quaestiones Geographicae, Jul 16, 2022

The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant ch... more The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant changes in the structure of agriculture and land cultivation techniques, and the growing demand on wood as timber, fuel and raw materials for crafts, all combined to contribute to the significant deforestation of the territory. The extent of this deforestation remains conjectural. The purpose in creating a model of forest area in 13th-century Chełmno Land was to attempt to reconstruct it and determine its size and, consequently, to verify hypotheses concerning the scale and the ultimate end of deforestation in the research area. The spatial model is based on published historical and archaeological data relating to selected components of the geographical environment that pertain to the forest area. A retrogressive method combined with Multi-Criterion Evaluation (MCE) was used to build a forest area model. The basic platform for collecting, analysing and visualising spatial data was the geographic information system (GIS). The presented estimates indicate that the forest area of Chełmno Land in the 13th century was larger than had previously been assumed, at about 20-25% of the entire territory.

Research paper thumbnail of Multidisciplinary Research on Castles and Cities of the Teutonic Order in Chełmno Land (Poland). A Reconstruction the Natural Environment, Animal Consumption and Plant Economy During the 13th-Century Crusades Using Archaeological, Geo-Archaeological and Environmental Research

Social Science Research Network, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The concept of the terrestrial–subaqueous topographical and lithological continuum: a case study of the Lake Gopło region (north-central Poland)

Landscape Online, Apr 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Chronologia i zasiêgi nasuniêæ l¹dolodu na obszarze lobu Wis³y podczas stadia³u g³ównego ostatniego zlodowacenia

Research paper thumbnail of Zastosowanie metod geostatystycznych do badań ruchów neotektonicznych (halokinetycznych) na obszarze Wysoczyzny Kujawskiej

Research paper thumbnail of Castles and towns of the Teutonic Order in Chelmno Land: Environment, animals and plant subsistence. A new archaeological and geo-archaeological study

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

In the 30 s of the 13th century, a crusade by the knights of the Teutonic Order against the pagan... more In the 30 s of the 13th century, a crusade by the knights of the Teutonic Order against the pagan tribes inhabiting Chełmno Land (Ger. Kurmeland) (Poland) began. Arriving at the invitation of Duke Konrad of Mazovia, settlers and knights began a colonisation campaign. In the years 2016-20, research was carried out in a city and in five previously uninvestigated castles using non-invasive, environmental and archaeological-architectural methods. These were: the city of Chełmno (the oldest city of the Teutonic Knights, having been founded by settlers originally from today's Germany and what is today the Polish province of Silesia); the oldest earth-and-timber strongholds (Bierzgłowo, Starogród); and brick castles and a tower house (Lipienek, Papowo Biskupie, Unisław). In Starogród, the relics of a Teutonic earth-and-timber stronghold from the 1230 s were uncovered, as were the remains of the oldest Teutonic city (Chełmno) 800 m from the stronghold. Two phases were distinguished, the first relating to the construction of the stronghold and the second to its operation. The castle and the city constituted a compact settlement complex. The remains of a Slavic defensive settlement dating back to the 10th or 11th century were discovered in Unisław. The remains of an earth-and-timber rampart that was built in the 11th century were reworked by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. At the castles in Lipienek and Zamek Bierzgłowski, remains of earth-and-timber ramparts were discovered that were the remains of the oldest Teutonic defensive settlements. The castle in Lipienek was built on the site of the 11th-century fortifications that were reworked by the Teutonic Knights and replaced at the end of the 13th century with a regular brick castle. The relics discovered in Bierzgłowo are the remains of a Teutonic stronghold erected in the 1230 s that was replaced in the second half of the 13th century for a brick castle. The locations of Teutonic castles very often relate to locations of early-medieval castles, and a typology of their locations was developed and applied to the five Teutonic castles analysed here. Research to date indicates that the castles were built in places of strategic importance and at land and water transport nodes. An analysis of ten potential lines of sight between the examined fortresses has shown, however, that practical visual contact between them could only have existed between the Starogród and Unisław castles and between Lipienek and Papowo Biskupie. The source base for discussing the principles by which stronghold inhabitants were provisioned was expanded by a thorough analysis of plant and animal remains, which resulted in a breakdown of the consumption of plant and animal products. The main source of food for the castles' inhabitants was domestic mammals. The castle inhabitants, like the early-medieval Slavs, preferred pork. In the case of the city (Chełmno), however, this was not the case. There, it was cattle farming that was crucial in providing meat and animal-derived raw materials such as hides, bones and horn sheaths.

Research paper thumbnail of Formation of the glacial and glaciofluvial relief, case study : middle part of Tungnaárjökull marginal zone

Research paper thumbnail of Glaciotectonic disturbances of the limno- and glaciofluvial deposits in the marginal zones of Skeidararjokull and Tungnaarjokull (Iceland) and their glaciodynamic conditions

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of A Spatial Model of Forest Area in the Middle Ages Based on Historical, Archaeological and Geographic Data: A Case Study of 13th-Century Chełmno Land (North-Central Poland)

Quaestiones Geographicae

The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant ch... more The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant changes in the structure of agriculture and land cultivation techniques, and the growing demand on wood as timber, fuel and raw materials for crafts, all combined to contribute to the significant deforestation of the territory. The extent of this deforestation remains conjectural. The purpose in creating a model of forest area in 13th-century Chełmno Land was to attempt to reconstruct it and determine its size and, consequently, to verify hypotheses concerning the scale and the ultimate end of deforestation in the research area. The spatial model is based on published historical and archaeological data relating to selected components of the geographical environment that pertain to the forest area. A retrogressive method combined with Multi-Criterion Evaluation (MCE) was used to build a forest area model. The basic platform for collecting, analysing and visualising spatial data was the geog...

Research paper thumbnail of Osl Dating of Modern Fluvial Sediments in the Lower Vistula River Testing Zeroing Assumption

Research paper thumbnail of Multidisciplinary Research on Castles and Cities of the Teutonic Order in Chełmno Land (Poland). A Reconstruction the Natural Environment, Animal Consumption and Plant Economy During the 13th-Century Crusades Using Archaeological, Geo-Archaeological and Environmental Research

Research paper thumbnail of Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Based on Lithostratigraphic Research and OSL Dating

Geochronometria, 2008

Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Bas... more Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Based on Lithostratigraphic Research and OSL Dating The subject of the investigations presented here is fixing dilemmatic character (transgressive or recessive) of the Poznań phase of the Vistulian (Weichselian) Glaciation and answering the question about the possibility of lithostratigraphic separation of this phase from the Leszno phase in the region of so called Vistula lob. Here we present the outcomes of the research project carried out on a few tills exposures, which constitute the sedimentological record of the last ice sheet advance on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau. The absolute ages of 17 samples (collected from fluvial deposits uncovered in the geological logs) have been determined by means of the OSL method applying the single aliquots regenerative (SAR) dose protocol. The OSL data are analysed with regard to supposed bleaching conditions at the moment of the last transport and depo...

Research paper thumbnail of ARTYKUŁY NAUKOWE Chronologia i zasięgi nasunięć lądolodu na obszarze lobu Wisły podczas stadiału głównego ostatniego zlodowacenia

Przegląd Geologiczny, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Nowe spojrzenie na morfogenezę dolin Bachorzy i parchańskiej (Wysoczyzna Kujawska)

W artykule zaprezentowano nowe spojrzenia na morfogenezę znanych z literatury dwóch dużych dolin ... more W artykule zaprezentowano nowe spojrzenia na morfogenezę znanych z literatury dwóch dużych dolin marginalnych – Bachorzy i Parchanie, rozcinających Wysoczyznę Kujawską. Jedną z osobliwości tych dolin jest wypukły profil ich den i charakterystyczny łukowaty kształt, wypukłością skierowany na północny wschód. Dźwiganie den tych dolin związane jest z rozmaitymi ruchami skorupy ziemskiej – neotektonicznymi, glaciizostatycznymi i halotektonicznymi. Przeprowadzona przez autora analiza zróżnicowania przestrzennego potencjalnej aktywności neotektonicznej obszaru Wysoczyzny Kujawskiej wskazała na nieopisane dotąd uwarunkowania postglacjalnych przeobrażeń badanych dolin. Analiza ta sugeruje istnienie na całym badanym obszarze tektoniki regionalnej typu blokowego, stymulowanej zapewne tektoniką solną. Czynnikiem wywołującym aktywność poszczególnych bloków uskokowych pokrywy permo-mezozoicznej było obciążenie przez lądolód, a następnie odciążenie po jego ustąpieniu.

Research paper thumbnail of Revealing the first location of abandoned medieval town Toruń, Poland, with the use of integrated noninvasive research

Archaeological Prospection

The article presents the latest results of the search for the first location of abandoned medieva... more The article presents the latest results of the search for the first location of abandoned medieval town Toruń (Ger. Thorn), conducted in 2017–2018 by an interdisciplinary research team. Noninvasive research, including aerial, surface and geophysical prospection and geological soil coring, was preceded by archival and library queries and analysis of historical written and cartographic sources as well as contemporary remote-sensing digital images. These all pointed clearly to an area to the west of Toruń, north of the entrance to the Wood Port on the Vistula. A systematic aerial survey led to the discovery of an extensive anthropogenic structure in this area. Magnetic gradiometry survey revealed anomalies typical of human activity that were interpreted as, among other things, the remains of moats and buildings indicating the area of the town's first location. Their physical character was confirmed through geological tests. Moreover, the existence of an embankment surrounding the town is suggested by the traces of an alluvial fan formed within the fortifications by flooding. The authors point out the limitation of the possibility to identify such sites by field walking-method within the methodology of the Polish Archaeological Record. The acquired results provide strong grounds for a continuation in the form of further interdisciplinary archaeological research.

Research paper thumbnail of The Sacred Lake Project: preliminary findings from the Lusatian site of Papowo Biskupie, Poland

Antiquity, Jan 24, 2024

In 2023, prospection of a dried-out lake near Papowo Biskupie in north-central Poland identified ... more In 2023, prospection of a dried-out lake near Papowo Biskupie in north-central Poland identified substantial deposits of bronze artefacts. Excavation revealed further deposits and dozens of human skeletons that date from 1000-400 BC, suggesting that the site held particular significance as a place for sacrificial offerings in the Lusatian culture.

Research paper thumbnail of Author response for "Local or imported? The origin of the raw material used in manufacturing bricks from castles of the Teutonic knights in north‐central Poland and their significance to our understanding of medieval construction techniques

Research paper thumbnail of Wiechselian glaciations in mid-northern Poland: Chronology and palaeogeography in the light of OSL dating

Research paper thumbnail of A Final Bronze Age hoard from Cierpice, Poland: new evidence for the use and deposition of a horse bridle in the region

Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Sep 10, 2023

Im Herbst 2020 entdeckte eine Gruppe von Detektorgängern auf einer bewaldeten Düne in der Nähe de... more Im Herbst 2020 entdeckte eine Gruppe von Detektorgängern auf einer bewaldeten Düne in der Nähe des Dorfes Cierpice in Nordzentralpolen 150 Bronzefunde. Der Fund umfasst Backenstücke, Phalerae, Rasselund Terretringe sowie Zügelmanschetten mit Drahtgliedern, die einst Teil eines Pferdezaumzeugs aus der Endbronzezeit waren. Die Zaumzeugteile wurden zusammen mit einem Tüllenbeil in Pflanzenfasern eingewickelt und dann sorgfältig in einen organischen Beutel gelegt, der verrottet war. In diesem Artikel werden die Ergebnisse der archäologischen, metallographischen und paläobotanischen Untersuchungen des Hortes vorgestellt und diskutiert, unterstützt durch andere archäologisch dokumentierte Daten. Diese werden mit den Mustern der Bewegung und des Verbrauchs von Metallwaren im heutigen Polen während der Lausitzer Periode und dem weiteren Kontext der nordeuropäischen Bronzezeit in Beziehung gesetzt.

Research paper thumbnail of Geomorphological and sedimentological records of glacial events in the northern marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull, Iceland, since the Little Ice Age

Jökull

We present geomorphological mapping of glacilacustrine and glacifluvial landforms and lithofacies... more We present geomorphological mapping of glacilacustrine and glacifluvial landforms and lithofacies analysis of deposits in the northern part of the marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull as it retreated from its Little Ice Age (LIA) maximum. This is the first time that this type of study has been conducted in the marginal zone of Tungnaárjökull. Landforms identified included preserved shorelines, small wave-cut platforms, fossil deltas and a kame terrace, all associated with ice-dammed lakes. Lake, delta and kame depositional environments were interpreted on the basis of sedimentological analysis. Ice-dammed lakes developed in the northern part of the forefield as a result of Tungnaárjökull damming the outflow of meltwater between its snout and the Jökulgrindur volcanic ridge. Based on historical maps and aerial photographs the damming of meltwater was probably associated with the 1945 surge.

Research paper thumbnail of A Spatial Model of Forest Area in the Middle Ages Based on Historical, Archaeological and Geographic Data: A Case Study of 13th-Century Chełmno Land (North-Central Poland)

Quaestiones Geographicae, Jul 16, 2022

The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant ch... more The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant changes in the structure of agriculture and land cultivation techniques, and the growing demand on wood as timber, fuel and raw materials for crafts, all combined to contribute to the significant deforestation of the territory. The extent of this deforestation remains conjectural. The purpose in creating a model of forest area in 13th-century Chełmno Land was to attempt to reconstruct it and determine its size and, consequently, to verify hypotheses concerning the scale and the ultimate end of deforestation in the research area. The spatial model is based on published historical and archaeological data relating to selected components of the geographical environment that pertain to the forest area. A retrogressive method combined with Multi-Criterion Evaluation (MCE) was used to build a forest area model. The basic platform for collecting, analysing and visualising spatial data was the geographic information system (GIS). The presented estimates indicate that the forest area of Chełmno Land in the 13th century was larger than had previously been assumed, at about 20-25% of the entire territory.

Research paper thumbnail of Multidisciplinary Research on Castles and Cities of the Teutonic Order in Chełmno Land (Poland). A Reconstruction the Natural Environment, Animal Consumption and Plant Economy During the 13th-Century Crusades Using Archaeological, Geo-Archaeological and Environmental Research

Social Science Research Network, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The concept of the terrestrial–subaqueous topographical and lithological continuum: a case study of the Lake Gopło region (north-central Poland)

Landscape Online, Apr 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Chronologia i zasiêgi nasuniêæ l¹dolodu na obszarze lobu Wis³y podczas stadia³u g³ównego ostatniego zlodowacenia

Research paper thumbnail of Zastosowanie metod geostatystycznych do badań ruchów neotektonicznych (halokinetycznych) na obszarze Wysoczyzny Kujawskiej

Research paper thumbnail of Castles and towns of the Teutonic Order in Chelmno Land: Environment, animals and plant subsistence. A new archaeological and geo-archaeological study

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

In the 30 s of the 13th century, a crusade by the knights of the Teutonic Order against the pagan... more In the 30 s of the 13th century, a crusade by the knights of the Teutonic Order against the pagan tribes inhabiting Chełmno Land (Ger. Kurmeland) (Poland) began. Arriving at the invitation of Duke Konrad of Mazovia, settlers and knights began a colonisation campaign. In the years 2016-20, research was carried out in a city and in five previously uninvestigated castles using non-invasive, environmental and archaeological-architectural methods. These were: the city of Chełmno (the oldest city of the Teutonic Knights, having been founded by settlers originally from today's Germany and what is today the Polish province of Silesia); the oldest earth-and-timber strongholds (Bierzgłowo, Starogród); and brick castles and a tower house (Lipienek, Papowo Biskupie, Unisław). In Starogród, the relics of a Teutonic earth-and-timber stronghold from the 1230 s were uncovered, as were the remains of the oldest Teutonic city (Chełmno) 800 m from the stronghold. Two phases were distinguished, the first relating to the construction of the stronghold and the second to its operation. The castle and the city constituted a compact settlement complex. The remains of a Slavic defensive settlement dating back to the 10th or 11th century were discovered in Unisław. The remains of an earth-and-timber rampart that was built in the 11th century were reworked by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. At the castles in Lipienek and Zamek Bierzgłowski, remains of earth-and-timber ramparts were discovered that were the remains of the oldest Teutonic defensive settlements. The castle in Lipienek was built on the site of the 11th-century fortifications that were reworked by the Teutonic Knights and replaced at the end of the 13th century with a regular brick castle. The relics discovered in Bierzgłowo are the remains of a Teutonic stronghold erected in the 1230 s that was replaced in the second half of the 13th century for a brick castle. The locations of Teutonic castles very often relate to locations of early-medieval castles, and a typology of their locations was developed and applied to the five Teutonic castles analysed here. Research to date indicates that the castles were built in places of strategic importance and at land and water transport nodes. An analysis of ten potential lines of sight between the examined fortresses has shown, however, that practical visual contact between them could only have existed between the Starogród and Unisław castles and between Lipienek and Papowo Biskupie. The source base for discussing the principles by which stronghold inhabitants were provisioned was expanded by a thorough analysis of plant and animal remains, which resulted in a breakdown of the consumption of plant and animal products. The main source of food for the castles' inhabitants was domestic mammals. The castle inhabitants, like the early-medieval Slavs, preferred pork. In the case of the city (Chełmno), however, this was not the case. There, it was cattle farming that was crucial in providing meat and animal-derived raw materials such as hides, bones and horn sheaths.

Research paper thumbnail of Formation of the glacial and glaciofluvial relief, case study : middle part of Tungnaárjökull marginal zone

Research paper thumbnail of Glaciotectonic disturbances of the limno- and glaciofluvial deposits in the marginal zones of Skeidararjokull and Tungnaarjokull (Iceland) and their glaciodynamic conditions

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of A Spatial Model of Forest Area in the Middle Ages Based on Historical, Archaeological and Geographic Data: A Case Study of 13th-Century Chełmno Land (North-Central Poland)

Quaestiones Geographicae

The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant ch... more The settlement established under German law in Chełmno Land in the 13th century, the resultant changes in the structure of agriculture and land cultivation techniques, and the growing demand on wood as timber, fuel and raw materials for crafts, all combined to contribute to the significant deforestation of the territory. The extent of this deforestation remains conjectural. The purpose in creating a model of forest area in 13th-century Chełmno Land was to attempt to reconstruct it and determine its size and, consequently, to verify hypotheses concerning the scale and the ultimate end of deforestation in the research area. The spatial model is based on published historical and archaeological data relating to selected components of the geographical environment that pertain to the forest area. A retrogressive method combined with Multi-Criterion Evaluation (MCE) was used to build a forest area model. The basic platform for collecting, analysing and visualising spatial data was the geog...

Research paper thumbnail of Osl Dating of Modern Fluvial Sediments in the Lower Vistula River Testing Zeroing Assumption

Research paper thumbnail of Multidisciplinary Research on Castles and Cities of the Teutonic Order in Chełmno Land (Poland). A Reconstruction the Natural Environment, Animal Consumption and Plant Economy During the 13th-Century Crusades Using Archaeological, Geo-Archaeological and Environmental Research

Research paper thumbnail of Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Based on Lithostratigraphic Research and OSL Dating

Geochronometria, 2008

Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Bas... more Chronostratigraphy of the Vistulian Glaciation on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau (Central Poland) Based on Lithostratigraphic Research and OSL Dating The subject of the investigations presented here is fixing dilemmatic character (transgressive or recessive) of the Poznań phase of the Vistulian (Weichselian) Glaciation and answering the question about the possibility of lithostratigraphic separation of this phase from the Leszno phase in the region of so called Vistula lob. Here we present the outcomes of the research project carried out on a few tills exposures, which constitute the sedimentological record of the last ice sheet advance on the Kujawy Moraine Plateau. The absolute ages of 17 samples (collected from fluvial deposits uncovered in the geological logs) have been determined by means of the OSL method applying the single aliquots regenerative (SAR) dose protocol. The OSL data are analysed with regard to supposed bleaching conditions at the moment of the last transport and depo...

Research paper thumbnail of ARTYKUŁY NAUKOWE Chronologia i zasięgi nasunięć lądolodu na obszarze lobu Wisły podczas stadiału głównego ostatniego zlodowacenia

Przegląd Geologiczny, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Nowe spojrzenie na morfogenezę dolin Bachorzy i parchańskiej (Wysoczyzna Kujawska)

W artykule zaprezentowano nowe spojrzenia na morfogenezę znanych z literatury dwóch dużych dolin ... more W artykule zaprezentowano nowe spojrzenia na morfogenezę znanych z literatury dwóch dużych dolin marginalnych – Bachorzy i Parchanie, rozcinających Wysoczyznę Kujawską. Jedną z osobliwości tych dolin jest wypukły profil ich den i charakterystyczny łukowaty kształt, wypukłością skierowany na północny wschód. Dźwiganie den tych dolin związane jest z rozmaitymi ruchami skorupy ziemskiej – neotektonicznymi, glaciizostatycznymi i halotektonicznymi. Przeprowadzona przez autora analiza zróżnicowania przestrzennego potencjalnej aktywności neotektonicznej obszaru Wysoczyzny Kujawskiej wskazała na nieopisane dotąd uwarunkowania postglacjalnych przeobrażeń badanych dolin. Analiza ta sugeruje istnienie na całym badanym obszarze tektoniki regionalnej typu blokowego, stymulowanej zapewne tektoniką solną. Czynnikiem wywołującym aktywność poszczególnych bloków uskokowych pokrywy permo-mezozoicznej było obciążenie przez lądolód, a następnie odciążenie po jego ustąpieniu.

Research paper thumbnail of Revealing the first location of abandoned medieval town Toruń, Poland, with the use of integrated noninvasive research

Archaeological Prospection

The article presents the latest results of the search for the first location of abandoned medieva... more The article presents the latest results of the search for the first location of abandoned medieval town Toruń (Ger. Thorn), conducted in 2017–2018 by an interdisciplinary research team. Noninvasive research, including aerial, surface and geophysical prospection and geological soil coring, was preceded by archival and library queries and analysis of historical written and cartographic sources as well as contemporary remote-sensing digital images. These all pointed clearly to an area to the west of Toruń, north of the entrance to the Wood Port on the Vistula. A systematic aerial survey led to the discovery of an extensive anthropogenic structure in this area. Magnetic gradiometry survey revealed anomalies typical of human activity that were interpreted as, among other things, the remains of moats and buildings indicating the area of the town's first location. Their physical character was confirmed through geological tests. Moreover, the existence of an embankment surrounding the town is suggested by the traces of an alluvial fan formed within the fortifications by flooding. The authors point out the limitation of the possibility to identify such sites by field walking-method within the methodology of the Polish Archaeological Record. The acquired results provide strong grounds for a continuation in the form of further interdisciplinary archaeological research.