{"id":390,"date":"2015-09-11T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archeologia.t33.pl\/2015\/09\/11\/dzial-epoki-kamienia-i-wczesnej-epoki-brazu\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:57:16","slug":"dzial-epoki-kamienia-i-wczesnej-epoki-brazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/dzialy-merytoryczne-opisy\/dzial-epoki-kamienia-i-wczesnej-epoki-brazu\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Age and Early Bronze Age Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do we do?
\n<\/strong>The Stone Age and Early Bronze Age Department collects and studies artefacts dating from the Stone Age and Early Bronze Age that have been recovered from various types of archaeological fieldwork. The vast majority come from excavations carried out in present-day Gda\u0144sk Pomerania.<\/p>\n

Our collection
\n<\/strong>We have over 11,500 catalogued and studied museum objects in our collection. The most valuable and important of these are displayed in a permanent exhibition on the Prehistory of Gda\u0144sk Pomerania. Most of the artefacts come from settlements and temporary camps dating from the 6th to the 2nd millennium BC.<\/p>\n

Our activities
\n<\/strong>We undertake both short- and long-term projects. The first of these include rescue excavations, in other words archaeological digs conducted in places (e.g. construction sites) where potential archaeological sites are threatened with destruction. Our long-term projects include two large-scale research programmes.<\/p>\n

Starogard Lakeland research programme
\n<\/strong>This programme, launched back in the 1980s, examines issues concerning the early and middle Neoltihic (the Stone Age period just before the Bronze Age) in the Starogard Lakeland (Pojezierze Starogardzkie).
\nOur research work has led to the discovery of many significant facts and finds. These have added greatly to our knowledge about the earliest societies that lived in Gda\u0144sk Pomerania during the New Stone Age.
\nAs part of this programme, we have carried out a series of excavations over many years at eight Neolithic settlement sites. These have yielded information about the everyday life of farming communities, shedding light on their subsistence economies, the types of buildings they built and the general nature of their settlements and material culture. The richly decorated pottery found at these sites is of particular interest, as it suggests that the people who made it had a well-developed spiritual and belief system, and a keen sense of aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Gulf of Gda\u0144sk research programme
\n<\/strong>This programme focuses on the earliest Stone Age settlements around the Gulf of Gda\u0144sk.
\nMany years of excavation have revealed evidence of the so-called Rzucewo culture. This term refers to the assemblage of artefacts, including pottery and stone tools, and the characteristic terraced settlements typical of the hunting and fishing tribes who lived on the southern Baltic coast during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. These tribes hunted sea mammals (seals and porpoises), remains of which have been found at sites including the settlement at Rzucewo, Puck Commune. Excavation results have also provided information about the building traditions of these communities. They built their houses on coastal terraces in a gently sloping moraine upland. The walls of the houses were made from timber posts driven into the ground.
\nWe have also learned a lot about other activities regularly practised by the fishermen and hunters, which included making pottery and stone axes
\nIt turns out that amber also played an important role in the life of these settlers. They collected amber from the beaches of the Gulf of Gda\u0144sk, and worked it using small flint tools to make dress accessories and amulets. They also exchanged amber with other groups, which is demonstrated by the many amber artefacts found in southern Poland.<\/p>\n

We collaborate with other specialists
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s worth adding that we carry out most of our major archaeological projects working together with experts on other subjects, such as the past natural environment (geologists, palynologists), animals (zoologists and ichthyologists) and human populations (anthropologists).<\/p>\n

Contact
\n<\/strong>Stone Age and Early Bronze Age Department
\nMarek Kuik
\nm.kuik@archeologia.pl
\ntel. (58) 326 23 15<\/p>\n

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\n1. Flint arrowheads used by reindeer hunters. 10,000\u20138000 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n2. Flint axehead from Borkowo. 3500\u20132500 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n3. Stone hoe from Klonowo Dolne. 3500\u20132500 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n4. Decorated pot from Brody Pomorskie. Stroke-Ornamented Pottery culture. 4600\u20134300 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n5. Large storage pot from Bar\u0142o\u017cno. Funnel Beaker culture. 3300\u20132800 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n6. Decorated pottery bowl from Rzucewo. Rzucewo culture. 2500\u20132000 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n7. Flint blades from Ro\u017cental, imported from Volhynia. Funnel Beaker culture. 3500\u20133000 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n8. The oldest known textile fragment made from reed grass and linden bast fibres found in Pomerania. 2500\u20132000 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n9. Ceramic ornaments in the form of rams\u2019 heads. Funnel Beaker culture. 3500\u20133000 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n10. Bronze halberd. Early Bronze Age. 1700\u20131500 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n11. Bronze pickaxe. Early Bronze Age. 1700\u20131400 BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n12. Pottery amphora from the settlement at Os\u0142onino, mid-third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n13. Pot with cord-impressed and stamped decoration, mid-third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n14. Pottery beaker with lug and cord-impressed decoration, dated to the third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n15. Pottery bowl with stamped decoration, discovered in a post-built hut at Rzucewo. Dated to the mid-third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n16. Part of a large storage vessel known as a Turin amphora. Incised and stamped decoration can be seen on the outer surface. Dated to the mid-third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n17. Pottery amphora from Rzucewo, mid-third millennium BC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Czym si\u0119 zajmujemy? Dzia\u0142 Epoki Kamienia i Wczesnej Epoki Br\u0105zu gromadzi i opracowuje zabytki datowane na epok\u0119 kamienia i wczesn\u0105 epok\u0119 br\u0105zu, pozyskane z r\u00f3\u017cnego typu bada\u0144 archeologicznych. Zdecydowana wi\u0119kszo\u015b\u0107 pochodzi z wykopalisk prowadzonych na terenie dzisiejszego Pomorza Gda\u0144skiego. Nasze zbiory \u0141\u0105cznie zarejestrowanych i opracowanych jest ponad 11500 muzeali\u00f3w. Najcenniejsze i najwa\u017cniejsze zabytki prezentowane s\u0105 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dzialy-merytoryczne-opisy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31213,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/31213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}