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Alexander Treichel was mostly known as an amateur archaeologist. His truest passion was to portray customs of Pomerelian autochthons in 19th century. Having graduated from law and economic studies in Berlin, he decided to return to Pomerelia so as to inherit and run his parents manor in Wilcze Błota near Stara Kiszewa. Throughout the years, he was wandering around the villages around Kościerzyna, in which he wrote down pieces of the Pomerelian folklore sung and told by local housewives. He shared knowledge of local customs gained during these journeys at sessions of the Berlin Society for Anthropology and the Danzig Research Society. Fortunately, glass negatives depicting Treichel himself, as well as scenes of rural everyday life, including field works, preserved the whirlwind of history. Unfortunately, however, his scientific output remains to await discovery.
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Along with typical mounds, the barrow cemeteries of the Pomeranian culture that were common in the area of the Kaszuby Lake District also yielded stone structures containing no burials. Their diameters were most often smaller than in barrows covering a centrally placed burial. Moreover, the discussed structures were typically not surrounded by a stone circle marking the perimeter. In terms of form, however, they resembled barrows: they were circular in plan and had mounds, and they undoubtedly should be regarded as an integral part of a given barrow necropolis. The structures were built of stones of selected size. Larger blocks were used for the base, while the mound was raised from smaller pieces. Burial-less barrows are interpreted as structures having a symbolic meaning. A good example is site 2 at Nowa Sikorska Huta in Stężyca commune, where structures of the discussed type occupied one of the two identified zones of stone structures occurrence. In the second zone they occurred along with barrows containing burials. A similar situation was recorded in the cemetery at Żaków, site 3, in Sulęczyno commune. In this case, the structures with no burials co-occurred with typical barrows in the lowermost part of the cemetery, at the foot of a moraine hill. In the higher parts (the slope and edge of the hill), however, the discussed structures were predominant.
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In 2007 the Conservation Office in Bydgoszcz commissioned archaeological research on a presumed stone circle in Pruszcz, Gostycyn Commune. This object had been capturing a great deal of interest among explorers for a long time. Preliminary examination of the construction revealed that it was an archeological object that was similar to some well known ones from the cemetery of the Wielbark culture in Odry. The features that provoked such an assumption were: similar shapes of peripheral stones, similar dimensions of the circle diameter as well as, what was discovered after exposing peripheral stones, there were some small erratic stones in their bedrock. We would also like to interpret a few erratic stones lying between the circle and the mound as highly possible marking of graves from the flat area of a potential cemetery. However, doubts started to emerge when it turned out that the peripheral stones were not connected with a wreath usually running around the circle and that there were no old lichens on the stones. In the light of our research it seems very likely that the genesis of the examined stone circle in Pruszcz is modern. The presumable builders could be either Karl Hans Konstantin von Königsmarck, the Tuchola district head or Jan Górski, the last owner of the Kamienicki land. The history of the circle seems extremely interesting and can be a significant example of the impact that archaeological discoveries have on modern architecture of landscape.
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The article presents an example of Mount Skarzawa (near Mstów, on the north-east of Częstochowa) which has shown the cognitive potential of ethnographic interviews for the archaeological research on the recent past. Skarzawa according to the narrative of local residents was regarded as a bad place. There are many legends connected with the Skarzawa Mountain: about suicides or the calf, which haunted at night; about Polish insurgents buried here in 1863; Germans, who hid the treasure during the World War I and about the hiding Jews at the beginning of World War II. Conducted archaeological research revealed, among others: cavity containing bones of the human hand and parts of equipment of a German soldier from the World War I. It can be assumed that in the grave a soldier or a few German soldiers who died during the war were buried because of the German-Russian actions that took place around Mstów in 1914–1915. Probably the moment of burial was registered by local residents, which gave rise to stories about treasure buried by the Germans during the World War I. Probably after the war the grave was exhumed and the remains were transferred to one of the collective war cemeteries of German and Russian soldiers in the vicinity of Częstochowa.
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A significant part of youthful professional activity of the learned Addressee of this volume, Mr Władysław Baranowski, called Sławek by friends, was connected with working on and writing subsequent journals of series entitled “Catalogue of Landmarked Buildings of Industrial Construction in Poland”. The initiative of registering theses objects and publishing their catalogues emerged in the mid 1950s of the 20th century among scientists who deal with the broadly defined history of material culture as well as the history and ethnography which then as a result of disappearance of a traditional image of the Polish countryside started its movement towards ethnology. A few years earlier the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established in Warsaw and it was a scientific unit of basic importance for archeologists and ethnographers as well as historians who love historic processes and objects more than dates, battles, dead bodies and blood that is shed from traditional history schoolbooks.
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One of the main problems of living human was food storage. The biggest problem was with perishable meat. So, in order to keep meat in good condition, people dried or smoked it. Smoking is a method of preserving food: meat, meat products, fish, cheese, malt, etc. by smoke. As a result of this process foods acquire a specific aroma, taste and color of the surface. The construction of the smokehouse was developed in the Middle Ages, and since then, in principle, it has not changed. The device consists of a smoking chamber, furnaces and runner smoke from the furnace to the smoking chamber. Sometimes, in the old homes, smokehouses were built directly into the chimney stove that heated the house. Then there was a description of the process of preparing homemade smoked hams. These activities included the preparation of a couple of hams. The first stage is salting. Then smoking takes place in a specially prepared smokehouse by means of smoke of plum and cherry wood.
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