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Third annual Meeting of MPOV Project in Nieborów
2016.02.25 -
Preliminary program of the 3rd Annual Meeting of MPOV Project in Nieborów, 17-19.04.2016 17.04.2016 Arrival 19.30 Dinner 20.00 Meeting at the fire-place 18.04.2016 8.30-9.00 Breakfast I session, …
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Workshop in Lund, 26-28 November 2015
2015.12.16 -
The workshop held on 26-28 November 2015 in Lund (Sweden) was dedicated to the well known Migration Period deposit from Sösdala in Scania. Attended by twelve participants, the workshop had been organized by dr Charlotte Fabech and prof. Ulf Näsman who are currently preparing the first comprehensive publication of this important find complete with several case studies contributed by invi…
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1-4 December 2015, 25th Conference of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
2015.12.11 -
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 whic…
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Symposium in Pomeranian Studies, Gdańsk, 18-20 November 2015
2015.12.03 -
This year’s 20th Symposium in Pomeranian Studies was attended by 175 participants from Poland, among them six members of the MPOV Project Team who contributed four papers addressed on subjects related to the research made within the Project. On Thursday, 19 November, during the afternoon session, prof. dr hab. Henryk Machajewski presented a paper on the current status and issues of the …
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Conference in Ruma (Serbia) 4-7.11.2015
2015.11.12 -
The subject of the 27th conference from the Grundprobleme der frühgeschichtlichen Entwicklung im mittleren Donauraum series held 4-7 November were “boundary terms” such as: “Late Roman”, “Early Christian”, “Early Byzantine”, categories used in the historic-archaeological research addressed on the Middle Danube region in the period 4th to …
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Stockholm Conference, 5-7 November 2015
2015.11.10 -
Held 5-7 November in The Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm the Early Medieval Imitational Coinages Conference was attended by over fifty participants from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, UK and USA; twenty-three papers were presented. Special focus was given also to the origin of Germanic coinages (tribal and early state) as imitations of Roman and Early Byzanti…
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Excavating the Hanging Cave – a progress report
2015.09.01 -
The third season of excavation of the cave site at Kroczyce, Zawiercie district, is now in progress. This year the core team has been recruited from the Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology and the Faculty Artes Liberales staff and students of the undergraduate and the doctoral courses, led by Marcin Rudnicki. The excavation of a deposit dated to the middle of the 1st millennium AD led …
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A lecture on Goths given in New York, 10 July 2015
2015.07.14 -
In his lecture “The Roots of Germanic Coinage” given at the 17th Annual Henry Grunthal Meeting of the New York Numismatic Club commemorating the long-standing, eminent curator of the American Numismatic Society, Prof. dr hab. Aleksander Bursche reported on the key outcomes of the MPOV Project. The focus of his lecture were the origins of Germanic coinage attributed to the Gothic …
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Scanning of sediment cores from Lake Byszyno and Lake Rybackie
2015.07.14 -
The sediment cores sampled from Lake Byszyno and Lake Rybackie were analysed at the University of Bremen with an XRF core scanner for the content of individual chemical elements present in the sediments. The method of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) has many advantages and is widely used for studying lake sediment cores. The method is non-destructive which means that samples are tested without physi…
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The Hanging Cave at Kroczyce 2015 – Act III – in pursuit of the Goths
2015.07.09 -
The third season of archaeological fieldwork at the →Hanging Cave at Kroczyce, Zawiercie district, is scheduled to start in early August. The hard work of the two past seasons, which mostly involved the removal of destroyed stratigraphy and rock rubble, brought some rewarding results – the discovery in 2014, in a previously undisturbed area of the cave, of a small group deposit from th…