Zooarchaeological Evidence from Medieval Ojców Castle, Lesser Poland

A Biological Stone from a Medieval Cemetery in Poland

A review of the literature shows that origination of biological stones as well as their pathogenesis mostly depend on the environmental factors. As a result, the structural spectrum of such calculi and their chemical composition are highly diversified. It is well known that biological stones are formed mostly in the digestive and urinary tracts. However, it has been demonstrated that this kind ...

Allele protecting against HIV (CCR5-∆32) identified in early medieval specimens from Central Poland. Preliminary results

The CCR5-∆32 HIV-1 resistance allele was initially thought to have originated in Europe around 700 years ago. Its present-day frequency was formerly explained as resulting from selective pressure imposed by the Black Death epidemics. Our findings are among the results which confirm the presence of CCR5-∆32 in populations older than late medieval (from Dziekanowice, Central Poland), which predat...

Concrete contexts of morphosyntactic change: Evidence from Later Medieval Greek

Governing from the Grave: Vampire Burials and Social Order in Post-medieval Poland

Mortuary treatments are ways in which archaeologists can learn about the culture and lifestyle of past societies, in terms of how they view the dead. The dead, however, can continue to play a role in the lives of the living, which may also be reflected in funerary rites and burial treatments. This article explores the social agency of the dead, focusing on the ‘vampire burials’ of the post-medi...

An Information System for Medieval Archaeology Based on Photogrammetry and Archaeological Database: The Shawbak Castle Project

The paper presents an interdisciplinary project which is a work in progress towards a 3D Geographical Information System (GIS) dedicated to Cultural Heritage with a specific focus application on the Castle of Shawbak, one of the best preserved rural medieval settlements in the entire Middle East). The Shawbak archaeological project is a specific and integrated project between medieval archaeolo...