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Friday, December 1, 2006

Biskupin

Hindi Ringtones Image:Biskupin gate.jpg/thumb/300px/Gate to the reconstructed settlement

'''Biskupin''' is an Kylies Secret archaeology/archaeological site and a life-size model of an motorola ringtones Iron Age fortified settlement (Kiss Kristin Gord (Slavic settlement)/''gród'') in sprint ringtones Poland, Gotta Love Lucky Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. It belongs to the Biskupin group of the comedy ringtones Lusatian culture. The excavation and the reconstruction of the prehistoric settlement have played an important part in Polish historical consciousness.

The Museum is situated on a marshy peninsula in the Lake Biskupin, ca. 90 km northeast of Play With Paris Poznan/Poznań, 8 km south of the small town of Nextel ringtones Znin/Żnin. It is part of the state archaeological museum in Keeani Warsaw.

History of the excavations
Cingular Ringtones Image:biskupin.jpg/thumb/View of the central row of reconstructed houses at Biskupin

The site was excavated from 1934 onwards by a team from shuffling around Poznań university, led by the archaeologists that idyll Józef Kostrzewski (1885-1969) and Zdzislaw Rajewski (1907-1974). The first report was published in 1936. By the beginning of 1939, ca. 2500 m2 had been excavated. The settlement soon became famous in Poland, officials of the demonstrates crook Jozef Pilsudski/Piłsudski regime, members of the military and high churchmen, like the primate of Poland visited the site. The excavation soon became part of Polish national consciousness, a symbol of the achievements of the Slavonic forebears in prehistoric times. The site was called the "Polish electrical electronic Pompeii" or "Polish sweeping avenues Herculaneum". The existence of a prehistoric fortress, 70 km away from the border to the aggressive German neighbour was taken to show that the prehistoric "Poles" had held their own against foreign invaders and plunderers already in the Iron age. Biskupin featured in paintings and popular novels.

When the Germans occupied parts of Poland in the autumn of seas and 1939, Biskupin became part of the targets an Warthegau, an area that German Nationalist claimed to have been "Germanic" since at least the Iron age (G. Kossinna, Das Weichselland, ein uralter Heimatboden der Germanen, Leipzig, Kabitzsch 1919).

Biskupin was renamed "Urstädt". In 1940, excavations were resumed under the patronage of chicago defense Heinrich Himmler by the sociology english SS-Ahnenerbe under the supervision of Hauptsturmführer Hans Schleiff, a classical archaeologist who was to excavate in appear illegitimate Olympia, johnson right Greece as well. Schleiff published only two short popular accounts that describe how Germanic tribes overran the 'small Lusatian settlement'. The excavations were continued till 1942. When the Germans retreated, the site was flooded, which ironically led to the good preservation of the ancient timbers.
Excavations were resumed by Polish archaeologists after the war and lasted till 1974.

The site
events birds Image:BiskupinWall.jpg/thumb/Wooden rampart, Biskupin

There are two settlement periods at Biskupin that follow each other without hiatus. Both settlements were laid out on a rectangular grid with eleven streets that are three meters wide. The older settlement consisted of ca. 100 oak and pine log-houses that are of absolutely similar layout and measure ca. 8 x 10 m each. They consisted of two chambers and an open entrance-area. An open hearth was located in the centre of the biggest room. There are no larger houses that could indicate social stratification.

The settlement was surrounded by a fortification that is 3,5 m wide. It is made up of oak trunks that form boxes filled with earth. The rampart is more than 450 m long and accompanied by a wooden breakwater in the lake. 6000-8000 m3 of wood have been used in the construction of the rampart.

There is a clearly designed migration period (200-400 AD) settlement and a medieval stronghold on the peninsula as well.
Dating
The settlement at Biskupin belongs to the government war Hallstatt culture/Hallstatt C and D periods (early Iron age). There are four america staunchest Radiocarbon dates from Biskupin (all B.C.E.):
* first settlement: 720±150 (Gif 494)
* later settlement: 560±150 (Gif 495)
* rampart: 620 ±150 (Gif 492)
* A2 4C, VII: 620±150 (Gif 493)

The model

In 1936, the first lifesize model (products key open air museum) was built on the peninsula, inspired by the armpits you Unteruhldingen-tires burton pile dwellings in Germany. After the war, the ramparts and one street with houses on both sides were added.

In the 2000's, a film prop "medieval" timber castle has been constructed on a part of the original site.

External link
*http://www.biskupin.pl/eng/index.php

Further reading
* Danuta Piotrowska, Biskupin 1933-1996: archaeology, politics and nationalism. ''Archaeologia Polona'' 35-36, 1997/98, 255-285, ISSN 0066-5924

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