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The second meeting of the Project Team in Nieborów
2014.05.12 -
The second meeting of the Project Team took place at Nieborów, in Radziwiłł Palace, unit of the National Museum in Warsaw (photo 1) and was attended by the members of the Steering Committee and by Professor Wojciech Nowakowski, Director of the Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw. The purpose of the meeting was reporting on the current outcomes of Project, planning and coordinatin…
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Excavating at Suchań, season August 2014
2014.04.04 -
We are happy to report that we are now recruiting for the upcoming excavation season at the Migration Period site at Suchań in West Pomerania. The dig supervisors will be prof. Aleksander Bursche and dr Bartłomiej Rogalski from the National Museum in Szczecin. We provide accommodation and meals.
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The Hanging Cave excavation at Kroczyce, August 2014
2014.04.04 -
We are happy to report that we are now recruiting for the archaeological dig at Kroczyce in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The dig supervisors will be dr Anna Zapolska and mgr Marcin Rudnicki. We provide accommodation and meals.
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A research visit to Sweden
2014.04.04 -
A recent assignment scheduled within the Maestro Project Migrations Period between Odra and Vistula Project took team members dr hab. Anna Bitner-Wróblewska and dr hab Bartosz Kontny on 6-16 February 2014 to the Riksantikvarieämbetet in Stockholm on an archival query of the legacy of Swedish researchers Bernhard Salin and Nils Åberg, major contributors to Migration Period studie…
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The latest dicovery from Wrocław-Bielany
2014.01.22 -
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114871,15254836,Zloto_w_szczerym_polu__Czy_bedzie_wiecej_takich_skarbow_.html#BoxWiadTxt
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Money unites, money divides, the 22-23 November 2013 conference in Frankfurt am Main
2013.11.29 -
MPOV team members A. Zapolska and A. Bursche took part in “Geld eint, Geld trennt 1: Ikonographie und Ideologie überregionaler Währungen” conference held 22-23 November 2013 at the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (RGK DAI) within the Forschungscluster 6: “Connecting Cultures” of the German Archaeological Institute. The conference …
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A Valens medallion is taken to south-western Germany
2013.11.29 -
On 21 November 2013 A. Bursche and A. Zapolska sought consultation in south-western Germany on a little known gold medallion of Emperor Valens struck at Antioch, weighing nearly 200 g, with a loop, from a private collection. This is presumably a multiple, gone missing for 200 years, from the outstanding Migration Period deposit discovered at Szilágy Somlyó in north-western Transylva…
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Weaponry in protohistoric Europe – a report from IX Conference in Bratislava 1-4 October 2013
2013.10.26 -
This time the main theme of the conference were weapon studies. Next to several presentations discussing weapon finds from Przeworsk Culture territory and the Marcomanni-Quadi area there were also contributions dedicated to the Migration Period. Bartosz Kontny revisited the subject of swords discovered in graves of West Balt cultures. Presenting some as yet unidentified elements of swords, sc…
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64. Internationales Sachsensymposion – 7-11 September 2013, Paderborn
2013.09.15 -
64. Internationales Sachsensymposion – 7-11 September 2013, Paderborn (Westphalia) "Dying Gods – Traditional beliefs in northern and eastern Europe in the time of Christianisation" This major European conference was attended by four members of MPOV Project Team: A. Bursche, B. Kontny, M. Mączyńska and J. Schuster, the first researchers from Poland to participate…