Return to Książnice Wielkie near Kraków

Abstract

In 1964, Barbara Burchard and Anna Eker published a study of the Funnel Beaker culture materials from Książnice Wielkie, Proszowice district. These materials were obtained by Józef Żurowski, who conducted large rescue excavations in 1921-1924. He has never published the results of research, and the study by B. Burchard and A. Eker is so far the only comprehensive one of the Funnel Beaker culture settlement there. Since then, this site has not been the subject of detailed research and analysis. The huge, as yet untapped, research potential of this site has become the reason for a scientific return to Książnice Wielkie. After almost 100 years since J. Żurowski's fieldwork, the Archaeological Museum in Kraków resumed research. In 2017, magnetic prospecting was carried out, and since 2018, rescue excavations have been directed. Stone artefacts are also being studied, and radiocarbon analyses of materials obtained in the 1920s are being conducted.