Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica 34
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An Attempt to Calculate the Number of Inhabitants in Relation to the Social Dimension in Neo-Babylonian Residential Architecture on the Example of Babylon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In the article, I attempt to estimate the number of inhabitants of Neo-Babylonian households based on archaeological data based on the example of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian period: 1100/1000–539 BCE). In order to discover how ... -
‘Historical Craft from the Artisan’s Point of View’. Analysis of the Results of the Survey Conducted Among Craftsmen Specialising in Historical Reconstruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper presents the results of the survey carried out by the authors of this paper, the subject of which was experimental archaeology. We asked a group of artisans that deal with historical reconstruction a set of ... -
The Right to the City, the Right to Heritage – Material and Non-Material Traces of Scheibler’s ‘New Weaving Mill’ in Łódź
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper presents the case of post-industrial space of the New Weaving Mill in Kilińskiego Street in Łódź, which was a part of Karol Scheibler’s empire. We use it to illustrate the tensions between actors of the city life ... -
Stone Age Archaeological Sites in the Landscape. Monumentalisation of Sites on the South Korea Example
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The aim of the article is to show selected ways of presenting Stone Age archaeological sites in the landscape. The forms of prehistoric archaeological sites monumentalisation in South Korea served as an example here. ... -
In the Factory, in Łódź, in the City. Reconstructing the Industrial Past of a Place
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper discusses an interdisciplinary research project (2014–2016) concerning the industrial heritage of Łódź, as exemplified by the former Monopol Wódczany, which is today converted for the purposes of new, cultural ... -
Dissonant Heritage as a By-Product of the Postwar Agrarian Reform in Poland. From Postmemory to Ethnoarchaeology
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The subject of the paper is dissonant heritage exemplified by former German villages in Central Poland. The agrarian reform (1944) transformed the local social and cultural landscape by removing its German inhabitants. ... -
19th-Century Wooden Houses of Craftsmen from Zgierz – Precious Heritage or Troublesome Inheritance?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Zgierz, a town located in the central part of the Łódź Province, has a unique urban complex in the form of a craftsmen’s town built from scratch in the first half of the 19th century. This was a result of a settlement ... -
Windmills as the Forgotten Cultural Heritage Returning to Favour
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Windmills are extremely interesting examples of architectural and technological monuments. For years, the objects located in Poland were neglected and their degradation was very rapid. There were many factors that contributed ... -
Continuity and Decline. Temporal Expression of Denominational Cemeteries in Contemporary Times
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The study attempts to systematize the leading transformations observed nowadays in denominational cemeteries located in Poland. The time frame of the analyses was limited to the period from the end of the Second World War ... -
Archaeology of the Contemporary Past vs Retrotopia in the Context of the Application of Remote Sensing Methods
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper considers the issue of the application of teledection methods in the archaeology of the contemporary past with reference to the concept of retrotopia proposed by Zygmunt Bauman. It is based on one of the components ... -
Three Lives of a Cemetery: the History of a Military Cemetery in the Village of Marcinowa Wola in Masuria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)Marcinowa Wola is a typical locality in Masuria (northern Poland), where a nearly total exchange of citizens took place after WW2. Polish and Ukrainian people coming here after the war had to deal with the sense of strangeness ... -
Difficult Heritage of the 20th Century from the Perspective of the Biography of Things
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This paper discusses the concept of difficult/dark heritage from a theoretical perspective known as the biography of things. First, I analyse Polish archaeological research on difficult/dark heritage. Second, I describe ... -
Archaeology of Us and the Local Identity. An Interdisciplinary Context
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In this paper, the Author presents the semantic and methodological scope and characteristics of a new field the archaeology of the contemporary past. In his opinion the essence of the archaeology of the contemporary past ... -
Difficult Pasts and Haunted Presents: Contemporary Archaeology and Conflict in an Age of Global Uncertainty
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)This article examines the role of archaeology in contemporary society. It works from the premise that archaeology is a form of socio-political action and explores some of the ways in which archaeologies of the recent past ...