A Fortified Site of the Early Iron Age in Poland (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences)

Contents: 1. Introduction [History of Research; Landscape and Vegetation; Vegetational History]; 2. Sobiejuchy Mesoregion [Introduction; Methodology; An Attempted Reconstruction of the Natural Environment of the Mesoregion Settlement Changes in the Later Bronze Age]; 3. Excavations of 1983 and 1987-88 [1983 Season; 1987 Season; 1988 Season; Excavation Strategy and Recording Methods; Description of the Excavated Features]; 4. Geophysical Survey of 1987-88 and Its Interpretation; 5. The Finds [Pottery; Metal; Fired Clay; Bone and Antler; Stone; Other Materials]; 6. Palaeoeconomic and Palaeoenvironmental Studies [Carbonized Macroscopic Plant Remains by Carol Palmer]; 7. Palaeoeconomic and Palaeoenvironmental Studies [Animal Bones by James Rackham]; 8. Environmental History of the Site; 9. Dating [Typology; Radiocarbon and Luminescence Dates; Conclusions]; 10. Interpretation and Reconstruction [Population Size; Building Function; Placed Deposits; Environment and Economy; Sobiejuchy in Its Surroundings]; 11. The Wider Context [Sobiejuchy in the Context of Developments in Hallstatt C; Urbanisation?; Fortified Sites: Decline and Fall; Trade, Contact, and the Early Iron Age World System]; Appendices: 1. Reconstruction of the History of Vegetation in the Vicinity of Sobiejuchy: Preliminary Report; 2. Radiocarbon Dating; 3. Luminescence Dating of Pottery from Sobiejuchy by Sarah Bamett; 4. Investigation and X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Samples of Material from Sobiejuchy by Jennifer Jones; 5. Petrological Examination of Rock Samples and Thin Sections of Sobiejuchy Sherds by David Schofield; Bibliography; Plates