The paper presents results of unknown and yet unpublished excavation by Stefan Krukowski, in 1919–1923 conducted at four cave sites located in the Sąspowska Valley (the area of Ojców, Cracow County, S Poland). The text contains critical review of the preserved sources of information on S. Krukowski’s research in this valley and the results of analysis of artefacts found during the excavation. All the data have been compared so as to allow for as complete as possible a reconstruction of the location of Krukowski’s trenches and their stratigraphy, and – as a result – enabling the establishment of the find context of particular artefacts. The results of Krukowski’s research show the stratigraphy of two unknown sites in the Sąspowska Valley, i.e. the Tunel Stromy Cave (Sadlana) and the Złodziejska Cave. They also broaden our knowledge about two well-known sites – the Łokietka and the Koziarnia Caves.
Chełm Hills is an area situated on the northern periphery of the Lublin Upland in the eastern part of Poland. It is a mesoregion covering about 722 square kilometres. Monadnocks and hillocks reaching the relative altitudes up to 300 metres above sea level, which are towering above the sandy of peaty plains are characteristic to this area. They are built of Cretaceous formations covered with layers of the Tertiary sandstones of varying thickness. Within them lies the Cretaceous flint raw material, which macroscopically is often similar to siliceous rocks occurring in the neighbouring areas of Volhynia, Volhynian Polesie and Podlasie. Current verification work has revealed mostly Prehistoric sites, documenting settlement from the Middle Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. Among these, the most numerous group is constituted by Late Palaeolithic and Early Bronze Age materials. The Late Palaeolithic sources were recorded most of all in the form of remnants of workshops documented by the presence of individual pre-cores, more numerous cores and accompanying débitage.
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