1-4 December 2015, 25th Conference of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
The 25th Jubilee Conference of IA UW was held on the first days of December 2015 in the UW main campus historic building of the Main School, seat of the Institute of Archaeology. Among over a hundred papers and communiqués presented on this occasion, two were contributed by MPOV Project Team members. Prof. Aleksander Bursche discussed barbarian imitations of Roman coins and medallions which during the →Migration Period undergo a major transformation in the North where they served as prestige objects. Fitted with suspension loops and, quite often, also with ornate frames, gold imitative medallions, and with time, also the Nordic bracteates with runic inscriptions, played an extremely important role of status marker of the Germanic elite. Marcin Rudnicki gave a report on an assemblage of silver zoo- and anthropomorphic artefacts executed in repoussé technique recovered in north central Poland at Dolna Grupa, in Świecko district, on the escarpment of the Vistula River, dating to the first half of AD 5th century. These finds have been interpreted within a broad context of phenomena and intercultural contacts unfolding during the Migration Period between western Ukraine (archaeological Cherniakhiv culture) and the Baltic region, ie, the processes of transmission of know-how and eschatology.
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