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14C dates funded within the contract archaeological excavations conducted along the S7 roadway on the section between Moczydło and Kraków (Lesser Poland) between 2016 and 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2025

Natalia Piotrowska
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Stanisława Konarskiego 22B/217, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Ewa Dreczko
Affiliation:
independent scholar
Iga Fabiszak
Affiliation:
Archaeological Centre, Poznań Science and Technology Park, ul. Rubież 46, 61-612 Poznań, Poland
Mirosław Furmanek
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, ul. Szewska 48, Wrocław 50-139, Poland
Izabela Gomułka
Affiliation:
independent scholar
Agata Hałuszko
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Paweł Jarosz
Affiliation:
Centre for Mountain and Highland Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Anna Józefowska-Domańska
Affiliation:
Centre for Research on the Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Culture, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Więzienna 6, 50-118 Wrocław, Poland
Lidia Kamyszek
Affiliation:
Centre for Research on the Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Culture, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Więzienna 6, 50-118 Wrocław, Poland
Igor Kołoszuk
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Anna Lasota-Kuś
Affiliation:
Centre for Mountain and Highland Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Mirosław Masojć
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, ul. Szewska 48, Wrocław 50-139, Poland
Danuta Minta-Tworzowska
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Tomasz Murzyński
Affiliation:
independent scholar
Fatima Pawełczyk
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Stanisława Konarskiego 22B/217, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Jerzy Piekalski
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, ul. Szewska 48, Wrocław 50-139, Poland
Marcin M. Przybyła
Affiliation:
Marcin Przybyła Pryncypat, pl. Emila Serkowskiego 8/3, 30-512 Kraków, Poland
Marta Rychtarska
Affiliation:
Museum of the First Piasts in Lednica, Dziekanowice 32, 62-261 Lednogóra, Poland
Agata Sady-Bugajska
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Botanical Analysis, ul. Wróblewskiego 73/98, 41-106 Siemianowice-Śląskie, Poland
Anita Szczepanek
Affiliation:
Centre for Mountain and Highland Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Alicja Ustrzycka
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Stanisława Konarskiego 22B/217, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
Leszek Żygadło
Affiliation:
Centre for Research on the Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Culture, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Więzienna 6, 50-118 Wrocław, Poland
Tomasz J. Chmielewski*
Affiliation:
independent scholar
*
Corresponding author: Tomasz J. Chmielewski; Email: tjch.archeo@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper presents the results of accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14C) dating performed on archaeological samples (human bone, wood charcoal, and other charred plant macro-remains) from six sites located in the Lesser Poland Upland (southern Poland). We report 41 14C age measurements performed on discoveries made during the contract excavations carried out during the S7 roadway construction from 2016–2022. The resulting ages fall into a long interval, which, in terms of the regional archaeological periodization, lasts from the Late Neolithic to the Late Antiquity/Early Medieval Period (ca. 4600 BC–600 AD), and in terms of the climatological periodization corresponds to the Atlantic, Subboreal, and Subatlantic.

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