Archaeological Sites in Poland
Biskupin
Biskupin is an archaeological site and reconstructed fortified settlement of the Lusatian culture in north-central Poland, dating to the 8th century BC [1][2]. Initially mistaken for an early West…
Borkowo Megalithic Cemetery
Borkowo Megalithic Cemetery is a prehistoric necropolis in Sławno County, Western Pomerania, Poland, dating to the 5th–3rd millennium BC [1]. The site comprises a passage grave, unchambered long…
Chrobry Fortified Village
The Chrobry Gord is an archaeological earthwork near Szprotawa in Lower Silesia, Poland, named after the country's first crowned ruler Boleslaw I the Brave. One of the largest earthworks of its kind…
Częstochowa
Częstochowa is a city in southern Poland located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland [1].
Giecz
Giecz is a historic settlement in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, that served as one of the main centers of early Polish statehood alongside Poznan and Gniezno [1]. In the early 9th century, a…
Gorzyczki, Silesian Voivodeship
Gorzyczki is a village in Gmina Gorzyce, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, near the Czech border. Archaeological excavations have uncovered traces of human activity spanning from the Stone Age…
Grzybowa Góra
Grzybowa Gora is part of the Rydno Archaeological Reserve in south-central Poland, a 10 km stretch along the Kamienna River valley containing several hundred Paleolithic campsites -- the world's…
Kleczanów Forest
Kleczanow Forest is a small forest complex near Kleczanow village in Sandomierz County, Poland, containing 37 well-preserved burial mounds (kurgans) arranged in four clusters across approximately 2…
Kłopot, Lubusz Voivodeship
Klopot is a village in western Poland, in Gmina Cybinka, Slubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship, situated near the eastern bank of the Oder river opposite the German town of Eisenhuttenstadt. The village…
Krzemionki
Krzemionki is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age flint mining complex located about 8 km northeast of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in Poland. The site extracted Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints. It…
Krzesin, Lubusz Voivodeship
Krzesin is a Neolithic settlement in the Lubusz Land of western Poland, situated near the German border in Słubice County. The site, located in the village of Krzesin within Gmina Cybinka, dates to…
Marcinków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Marcinków is a village in Gmina Wąchock, Starachowice County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. The village was the location of several Paleolithic industrial sites dating to before…
Miłobądz, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Milobadz is a village in Gmina Tczew, Tczew County, in northern Poland's Pomeranian Voivodeship, situated within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in historic Pomerania. The settlement dates back…
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is a city in southeastern Poland, in the historical region of Lesser Poland, with 66,258 residents [1]. The town became one of historic centers of Polish industry and…
Paradise Cave
Paradise Cave (Jaskinia Raj) is a karstic limestone cave near Kielce, Poland, and one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the Swietokrzyskie region. The cave served as a Neanderthal…
Przywóz
Przywóz is a Przeworsk culture settlement and kurgan cemetery in the Warta river valley near Wieluń, south-central Poland. Two burial mounds known as the "Ducal Kurgans" date from the 2nd-4th century…
Pudliszki
Pudliszki is a village in Gmina Krobia, Gostyń County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, near which lies a prehistoric burial ground dating to approximately 600 BC. Archaeological finds include tools from…
Skarżysko-Kamienna
Skarżysko-Kamienna is a city in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in south-central Poland, situated along the Kamienna river at the northern foothills of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The present-day…
Skrzydłowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Skrzydlowo is a village in Gmina Nowa Karczma, Koscierzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia. The settlement dates to prehistoric…
Stobno, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Stobno is a village in Gmina Wolow, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland, with settlement dating back to prehistoric times. Archaeological sites from the Bronze Age and the Early Middle…
Stone Circles at Odry
The Stone Circles at Odry form one of Europe's best-preserved Gothic burial grounds, located in the Bory Tucholskie Biosphere Reserve in Pomerania, Poland. The 40-acre site contains 10 fully…
Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Gory in Silesia, Poland has archaeological traces dating to the Upper Paleolithic (over 20,000 BC), with Bronze Age settlements along the river Stola. The site is best known for its…
Tunel Wielki
Tunel Wielki ("Big Tunnel") is a cave in Ojcow National Park, Poland, located in the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland about 20 km north of Krakow. Flint tools discovered during 1967-68 excavations were…
Węsiory
A megalithic cemetery of the Wielbark Culture in northern Poland, often called the "Polish Stonehenge." The site contains stone circles with diameters up to 26m, constructed from erratic stones…
Więckowy
Village in Gmina Skarszewy, Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, about 38 km southwest of Gdansk. Human settlement dates to prehistoric times, with an Iron Age cemetery near the…
Wietrzychowice, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Neolithic megalithic tombs known as the Polish or Kuyavian Pyramids, dating to c. 3500-2500 BC and built by the Funnel Beaker culture. The elongated triangular mounds reach up to 150m in length and…
Wysin
Wysin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Liniewo, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland [1]. The village contains archaeological sites from the Iron…
Żukczyn
Zukczyn is a village in Gmina Pruszcz Gdanski, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, located approximately 18 km south of Gdansk within the historic region of Pomerania. The settlement dates back…
Zyndram's Hill
Zyndram's Hill (Gora Zyndrama) in Maszkowice, southern Poland, is a prehistoric fortified settlement in the Beskid Wyspowy range of the Northern Carpathians. Radiocarbon dating places its earliest…