XX UISPP World Congress, Timișoara 5-9 September 2023

Archaeologists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University presented topics related to current research on raw material management in prehistory, including aspects such as extraction, use and distribution of silica raw materials.

Dr. Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, together with the team of D. Werra, M. Malak, H. Binnebesel, presented the topic” Preliminary research on the connections between the prehistoric chocolate flint mine in Poręba Dzierżna 24 (Southern Poland) and other prehistoric sites, in the context of dating”.

Dr. Jon Baczkowski, as the organizer of session 5-1, presented the topic „Understanding connections between mines and other archaeological contexts”. It is the result of his doctoral thesis entitled „The wider environs of the Early Neolithic flint mines of southern England”.

Hubert Binnebesel, M.A., with the participation of Dr. M. Sudoł-Procyk, presented the topic that is an element of his doctoral project: „Use of spatial analysis of artifacts from colluvial sediments from the mining field at site 24 in Poręba Dzierżna (Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland) in the reconstruction of the place of their original deposition”.

Lic. Kacper Baranowski, with the participation of Dr. M. Sudoł-Procyk, presented the topic „Siliceous raw materials of the Udorka Valley region (Kraków-Czętochowa Upland, Poland) and their use, on the example the Late Palaeolithic site in Kleszczowa 9, comm. Pilica, Silesian voiv.”.

One of the attractions was a trip to the unique archaeological site from the Mesolithic and Neolithic period, Lepenski Vir, located on the Danube in Serbia.