2024/03/01 by Agnieszka and Oniszczuk, Jakub Wrzosek, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Polish Historical and Cultural Studies #Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.11141/ia.66.4
openalex publication_date 2024/03/01 · openalex created_date 2024/03/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
The immediate past has been of interest within Polish archaeology only very recently. Research was first undertaken in 1967 and was incidental, tending not to change the general view of archaeologists focused on periods spanning prehistory to the Middle Ages, and then gradually adding the 17th and 18th centuries. A permanent change came in the 1990s with the emergence of development-led archaeology in Poland. Excavations preceding construction of motorways and other infrastructure projects revealed relics dating back to 1800-1945 on an unprecedented scale. Initially, insufficient historical knowledge made archaeological research particularly difficult. Now, after a few decades, this pioneer era is coming to an end, and there are archaeologists focusing mainly on the contemporary period e.g. archaeology of armed conflicts in the broadest sense of the term or narrowly specialised forensic archaeology.