Badania geoarcheologiczne pokrywy stokowej na stanowisku archeologicznym Szynkielew 11, gm. Pabianice
Geoarchaeological research on the slope cover at Szynkielew site No. 11, com. Pabianice

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of multidisciplinary research on Neo-Holocene slope deposits cover undertaken in the Ner River basin in central Poland. An environmental archaeology research has been undertaken as part of archaeological investigations at the Szynkielew site. Distinctive archaeological relicts of human activity have been recorded at the site documenting periods of intense activity of human communities from the Bronze Age to Middle Ages. Geoarchaeological investigations of slope cover and overbank alluvia allowed for the recognition of fossil cultural layers, buried soils and sandy slope wash sediments accumulated on the surface of a valley slope and also thick overbank deposits in the valley floor. The features of studied slope deposits are most typical for “deluvial sands” and, if they concern more humic matter, for “soil deluvia”. Their accumulation resulted from natural processes initiated in the periods of intensive human impact. Artefacts and ecofacts included within deposits play a very important role to correctly recognise the chronology of covers. The origin and development stages of slope cover have been correlated with anthropogenic changes of the natural environment. Two main phases of acceleration of slope processes have been recognised as dated to the Middle Bronze Age and to the Early Middle Ages. The phase of accumulation of overbank deposits in the Early Middle Ages was recorded too. The medieval period of intense geomorphological processes took place in the 12th century AD after the area became a property of the chapter of the Cracow bishop.

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