CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
April 24 (Wednesday)
10.30-11.00 – Registration and relaxing coffee
11.00-11.10 – Opening of the conference
11.10-13.50 – Session: Presentations on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
11.10-11.30 – Jędrzej Woyciechowski, Andrzej Wiśniewski, Witold Migal
Culture-society or cognitive capability
11.30-11.50 – Adam Kobyłka, Jędrzej Woyciechowski, Andrzej Wiśniewski
Adaptation to local conditions and needs: New data of technology from the lower level of the Wroclaw Haller Avenue site
11.50-12.10 – Andrzej Wiśniewski, Adam Kobyłka, Sara Diaz-Pérez, Dominika Tokarz, Jędrzej Wojciechowski, Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska, Adrian Marciszak
Hand axe from Draby, Łódź Province and its context
12.10-12.30 – Damian Stefański, Andrea Picin, Jarosław Wilczyński
Preliminary Report on Excavations in Mamutowa Cave and Kraków-Zwierzyniec 1 (2022-2023)
12.30-12.50 – Jarosław Wilczyński, György Lengyel
Diversity of Late Gravettian lithic inventories of Central Europe – how, when, and why?
12.50-13.10 – Dariusz Bobak, Maria Łanczont, Przemysław Mroczek, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Karol Standzikowski
Dzbańce 21 – epigraweckie obozowisko na Płaskowyżu Głubczyckim
13.10-13.30 – Petr Neruda, Zdeňka Nerudová
Hošťálkovice II (Czech Republic) – the Magdalenian or not?
13.30-13.50 – Discussion
14.00-15.30 – Lunch break
15.30-16.50 – Session: Reading bifaces – five years later. Different technological approaches to bifacial tools
15.30-15.50 – Małgorzata Kot, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Sebastian Miller, Michał Leloch, Grzegorz Czajka, Natalia Gryczewska
How reliable is the diacritic approach in lithic studies
15.50-16.10 – Małgorzata Kot, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Sebastian Miller, Michał Leloch, Grzegorz Czajka, Natalia Gryczewska
Can we read stones? Another approach
16.10-16.30 – Svetlana Kulehsova, Jean Airvaux, David Hérisson, Eric Boëda
Technofunctional study of the bifaces of the collection of La Grande Vallée (France)
16.30-16.50 – Martyna Lech, David Boysen, Nicholas J. Conard, Harald Floss
Looking for common ground: Multi-site application of consistent methodology in bifacial technology (case study: eastern France and southern Germany)
16.50-17.10 – Discussion
17.10-17.30 – Coffee break
17.30 -19.30 – Lithic materials presentation
(among others: Magdalenian materials from sites in Stare Baraki and Klementowice in the Lublin Region, Late Palaeolithic materials from Wólka Gościeradowska in the Lublin Region, Artefacts made of crystalline rocks from Ulów in Middle Roztocze, SE Poland, Tadeusz Wiśniewski and Barbara Niezabitowska-Wiśniewska;
Materiały krzemienne z epoki kamienia z grądów pod Drążdżewem, pow. makowiecki, woj. mazowieckie, Aleksandra Wołk, Michał Chrzanowski, Janusz Budziszewski, Michał Szubski; Pięściak z Drabów, Adam Kobyłka, Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska i Jędrzej Woyciechowski)
April 25 (Thursday)
10.00-12.00 – Session: Presentations on the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
10.00-10.20 – Paweł Valde-Nowak, Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała, Magda Kowal, Julia Kościuk-Załupka, Anna Kraszewska, Jakub Skłucki, Marian Soják
A set of late Paleolithic finds from the Hučiva Cave, Slovak Tatras Mountains
10.20-10.40 – Damian Stefański
Late Palaeolithic lithic artifacts from the Vistula Valley near Kraków
10.40-11.00 – Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Michał Przeździecki, Witold Grużdź, Bartosz Kozak, Dominik Kacper Płaza, Beata Sobko,
Biographies of Swiderian blades – various examples from the Polish territory
11.00-11.20 – Julia Kościuk-Załupka, Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała, Mateusz Słoniewski
Can we examine the direct contacts between Late Palaeolithic communities? Mineral pigments found in the chocolate flint mine in Orońsko, Central-Southern Poland
11.20-11.40 – Wojciech Bronowicki, Marcin Chłoń, Tomasz Płonka
Forgotten, but not lost – macrolithic tools of Mesolithic hunter and gatherers
11.40-12.00 – Discussion
12.00-12.20 – Coffee break
12.30-14.00 – Poster session
Dariusz Bobak, Maria Łanczont, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak
Osadnictwo paleolityczne w strefie nadsańskiej – nowe dane
Kacper Baranowski, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Grzegorz Osipowicz
Flint inventory from magdalenian workshop site in Kleszczowa 9. Typology, raw material and functional analyses
Elżbieta Ciepielewska
Workshop, waste heap or windfall pit?
Some initial remarques on spatial distribution of flint materials from Swiderian concentrations at Michałów-Piaska site (Rydno)
Jakub Mugaj, Jacek Kabaciński
Early Holocene settlement in the Middle Noteć Valley. A new Mesolithic site at Ujście, Greater Poland
Kamil Makuła
Próby zastosowania morfometrii geometrycznej w badaniach nad trapezami typu Luta
Hubert Binnebesel
What happened to the flint workshops in the Udorka Valley? A geoarchaeological project of searching for the original place of deposition of artifacts from the mining field at site 24 in Poręba Dzierżna (Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland) using spatial analysis
Beata Bielińska-Majewska, Beata Sobko
Flint materials from Otłoczyn in the collections of the District Museum in Toruń
Sara Mandera, Michael Brandl, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Christoph A. Hauzenberger, Dagmara H. Werra, Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała, Tomasz Boroń, Maciej T. Krajcarz
Advanced petrogeochemical methods in identifying lithic raw material provenance – the case of “chocolate flint”, Poland: preliminary results
14.00-15.30 – Lunch break
15.30- 16.50 – Session: Presentation on lithic sources and experiments
15.30- 15.50 – Dagmara H. Werra, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała, Magdalena Malak, Sara Mandera, Tomasz Boroń, Maciej T. Krajcarz
“Chocolate flint” on fire – verifying the validity and effectiveness of macroscopic classification
15.50-16.10 – Sara Mandera, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Maciej T. Krajcarz
“Chocolate flint” from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – occurrence and characteristics of the raw material
16.10-16.30 – Dagmara H. Werra, Rafał Siuda
This will be a piece of cake – characterising obsidian artefacts from Poland using pXRF
16.30-16.50 – Witold Migal, Witold Grużdź
Strike a figure – experimental case studies
16.50-17.10 – Discussion
17.10-17.30 – Coffee break
17.30-19.30 – Evening flintknapping session (including comparison of different varieties of chocolate flint)
April 26 (Friday)
10.00-12.40 – Session: Presentations on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
10.00-10.20 – Marcin Chłoń, Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska, Michał Borowski, Wojciech Bronowicki, Melchior Czarnik
For how long did it last? Use and recycling of metabasite tools of the Linear Pottery culture in southwestern Poland
10.20-10.40 – Marcin Dziewanowski
The stone production in LBK as the frontier of multifacial concepts- the theme in the light of recent studies
10.40-11.00 – Marcin Dziewanowski
Stone artifacts on LBK-sites on Lower Odra region and their importance for model of research called „in depth reading”
11.00-11.20 – Marcin Dziewanowski
Untypical flint production and tool usage in LBK on site Mierzyn 5 in the light of excavations on Middle Ages site in Pełczyce
11.20-11.40 – Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka
Nowe spojrzenie na wytwórczość krzemieniarską społeczności późnej ceramiki wstęgowej na obszarze Wielkopolski
11.40-12.00 – Julia Pasławska
Neolityczne materiały krzemienne ze stanowiska Zagaje Smrokowskie
12.00-12.20 – Piotr Mączyński
Sztylety krzemienne w kulturze mierzanowickiej – przedmioty codziennego użytku czy insygnia władzy
12.20-12.40 – Discussion
12.40-13.00 – Coffee break
13.00-15.00 – Visiting Archaeological Museum and Krzemionki Reserve
New perspectives in the lithic studies 