The Dawn of Pomerania. The Collection of Pomeranian Antiquities
Świt Pomorza. Kolekcja starożytności pomorskich
Der Anbruch Pommerns. Sammlung pommerscher Altertümer
The Dawn of Pomerania. The Collection of Pomeranian Antiquities. Guide to the archeological exhibition at the National Museum in Szczecin.
Dawn of Pomerania – a new permanent exhibition at the National Museum in Szczecin – presents almost 14 millennia of cultural history in the Pomeranian lands, covering the times from the end of the ice age to the first decades of existence of the Duchy of Pomerania. At the exhibition you can see over 1000 artefacts from the rich archaeological collections gathered in Szczecin since the 1st half of the 19th century.
The guide is also available in Polish entitled "Świt Pomorza. Świt Pomorza. Kolekcja starożytności pomorskich. Przewodnik po wystawie archeologicznej" and in German entitled "Der Anbruch Pommerns. Die Sammlung pommerscher Altertümer. Führer durch die Ausstellung".
The oldest of the presented archaeological finds date to the 13th millennium BC. These are traces of the material and spiritual culture of the hunter-gatherer community that acquired goods from the natural world. Successive groups of the specialised Stone Age hunters and gatherers dominated in Pomerania for several thousand years.
Krzysztof Kowalski, Introduction
Table of contents
| INTRODUCTION | s.7 |
| ROOM 1. THE STONE AGE (~12700–2000 BC) | s.9 |
| Part I. The Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic (~12700–4100 BC) | s.10 |
| Geological past of Pomerania (>12700 BC) | s.10 |
| Reading flint (~12700–4100 BC) | s.11 |
| Faces of cultures (~12700–4100 BC) | s.12 |
| Hunting, gathering and fishing (~12700–4100 BC) | s.14 |
| Axes, pickaxes, hoes and chisels (~9600–5400 BC) | s.15 |
| Shreds of beliefs (~12700–4100 BC) | s.16 |
| In the age of change (~5400–4100 BC) | s.17 |
| Part II. The Neolithic (~5300–2000 BC) | s.19 |
| Exit from Eden (~5300–2000 BC) | s.19 |
| From grain to bread (~5300–2000 BC) | s.20 |
| Cultural patterns (~5300–2000 BC) | s.23 |
| To have and to be (~5300–2000 BC) | s.28 |
| Giants’ graves (~5300–2000 BC) | s.28 |
| ROOM 2. FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE LATE ANCIENT TIMES (~2300 BC–AD 600) | s.31 |
| Part III. From the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (~2300–400 BC) | s.32 |
| Graves and symbols (~2300–1500 BC) | s.32 |
| New trends (~2300–1500 BC) | s.33 |
| Graves, urns and mysterious containers (~1500–1100/1000 BC) | s.34 |
| Between bronze and clay (~1500–1100/1000 BC) | s.35 |
| Power insignia and more (~1500–1100/1000 BC) | s.35 |
| Rattles and other symbols (~1100/1000–450 BC) | s.37 |
| Great urnfields (~1100/1000–450 BC) | s.39 |
| Signs of art (~1100/1000–450 BC) | s.40 |
| River Oder warriors (~1100/1000–450 BC) | s.41 |
| Everyday life in objects (~1100/1000–450 BC) | s.43 |
| Pomeranian canopic jars and house urns (~600–400 BC) | s.45 |
| Part IV. From the pre-Roman period to the late ancient times (~500 BC–AD 600) | s.47 |
| In the northern Baltic region (~500–50 BC) | s.47 |
| Latenization (~200 BC–BC/AD) | s.48 |
| Iron in everyday life (~200 BC–BC/AD) | s.49 |
| The first signs of Romanization (~BC/AD–AD 50) | s.50 |
| The Goths in Pomerania (~BC/AD–AD 400) | s.51 |
| Roman imports in Pomerania (~BC/AD–AD 400) | s.54 |
| Between strong neighbours (~BC/AD–AD 300) | s.55 |
| The Migration period in Pomerania (AD ~350–600) | s.56 |
| ROOMS 3 AND 4. THE MIDDLE AGES (AD ~650/700–1200) | s.59 |
| Part V. The Early Middle Ages (AD ~650/700–1200) | s.61 |
| At home (AD ~650/700–1200) | s.61 |
| At work (AD ~900–1200) | s.63 |
| At war (AD ~900–1200) | s.64 |
| The sacred (AD ~900–1200) | s.66 |
| Travelling (AD ~900–1200) | s.68 |
| Celebrating (AD ~800–1200) | s.69 |
| In the community (AD ~800–1200) | s.72 |
| In and on the water (AD ~800–1200) | s.74 |
