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...spring thaws warmed the lakes and streams of northern Poland last week, Professor Zdzislaw Rajewski, director of Warsaw's archaeological museum, gathered students and laborers to resume a fascinating job that started more than 25 years ago: the excavation of Biskupin, a surprising pocket of ancient civilization wondrously preserved for 2,500 years under a Polish lake about 50 miles northeast of Poznan. Hidden beneath the waters are the remains of a thriving agricultural society that lived in the Iron Age, when the Greeks and other civilized Mediterranean peoples considered northern Europe a primeval prowling ground for savages...
Clues under the Mud. Every year when the weather permitted, Kostrzewski and his assistant Rajewski assembled teams to probe deeper into the mud for the secrets of Biskupin. Damming the site and pumping it dry, the diggers found that the slanting logs were the outer fringe of fortifications; just inside was a second wall made of three rows of log cribs filled with stones and earth, and enclosing a roughly circular area of about six acres. Except for a small open square, the entire area was packed with log houses, built wall to wall in 13 straight rows and almost...
...Rajewski speculates that the village was built on its island at a time when northern Poland had a fairly warm and dry climate. About 500 B.C. the climate got colder and wetter, and the lake's level rose. For a while the villagers tried to keep pace, raising the level of their houses and streets. Eventually they gave up, and abandoned their houses to the rising water...
Circle & Cross. As Dr. Rajewski and his crews sifted the mud, they discovered what the people ate, wore and worshiped. They raised wheat, barley and other crops, which they cultivated with small plows. The women wove cloth out of wool and flax, sewed with bronze needles...
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