Osłonki

Early neolithic site in Central Europe, south-eastern Kujawy, Poland


See also Oslonki page by Peter Bogucki School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton University

Doc. dr hab. Ryszard Grygiel Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne

Dr hab. Dorota Nalepka W. Szafer Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Sciences


Contents

  • Localization
  • Palaeoecological field excavations - Gallery

  • Osłonki palynological monograph

    Dorota Nalepka



    Localization

    Maps of Central Europe, Poland and Kujawy region showing location of Osłonki (see also Fig. 1 and Fig. 33 in the monograph)

    Map of Kujawy region showing location of Osłonki

    Hipsometric map of Kujawy region (see also Fig. 2 in the monograph)


    Modern Kujawy landscape in the Osłonki area

    The southern basin (see also Fig. 3, Fig. 4 in the monograph) - state in 1994

    Location of the investigated profiles in the basins in the Osłonki area (see also Fig. 3 in the monograph)

    Location of the archaeological Osłonki site 1, in relation to the southern basin (see also Fig. 4 in the monograph)



    Field excavations

    Dorota Nalepka, Peter Bogucki, Michał Grygiel, Ryszard Grygiel, 1994

    Michał Grygiel, Dorota Nalepka, Piotr Papiernik, 1994



    The southern basin, state in 1993

    Krystyna Wasylikowa & Peter Bogucki looking after the collecting of lithological profiles from the southern basin in 1993

    Dorota Nalepka & Bolesław Nowaczyk looking after the collecting of lithological profiles from the southern basin in 1993

    The view of the trench in the southern basin at the deepest wall direction (Fig. 5. in the monograph)


    The southern basin, state in 1994

    Ryszar Grygiel, Dorota Nalepka & Iwona Okuniewska-Nowaczyk, near the the expedition's office trailer, collecting some samples, during reconnaissance borings in 1994

    Bolesław Nowaczyk , Dorota Nalepka, Iwona Okuniewska-Nowaczyk & Peter Bogucki during reconnaissance borings in 1994

    Bolesław Nowaczyk and the Staff working on Russian corer to collect lithological profile from the western basin in 1994

    Part of one of lithological corer collected from one of the profile in 1994


    Aldona Bieniek and Dorota Nalepka searching for plant macrofossil reamins in 1997



    The southern basin after the peat were expliotated for gardening purposes and a small fish pond has been established- state in 2003