In the “Archaeological Sensations 2025” poll organized by the magazine Archeologia Żywa, the study co-authored by Sambor Czerwiński took third place in the category “The Most Important Archaeological Discovery in Poland 2025.” The research focuses on the origins of the Piast state seen through the lens of sediments from Lake Lednica.
What is particularly gratifying is that in the online voting, the study ranked first!
This demonstrates that today (paleo)geography, more than almost any other discipline, combines various fields – from archaeology through paleoenvironmental research to historical sciences – and allows us to view key processes and events from a new environmental perspective.
More about the contest: https://archeologia.com.pl/archeologiczne-sensacje-2025/
Izdebski A., Czerwiński S., Jankowiak M., Danielewski M., Fiołna S., Gromig R., Guzowski P., Haghipour N., Hajdas I., Kołaczek P., Lamentowicz M., Marcisz K., Niebieszczański, J., Sankiewicz P., Wagner B., 2025, Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2409056122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409056122 LINK