2,000 year old intact village discovered in Polish forest
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https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/archeologists-discover-unique-2000-year-old-village-hidden-in-dense-virgin-forests-4620
Archeologists have uncovered a completely intact ancient village, the only one of its kind in Europe, dating back almost 2,000 years.
The stunning discovery in northern Poland revealed farming land complete with boundary strips, homesteads, buildings and even roads. Hidden in dense forests in the Bory Tucholskie
region, the area is one of the least explored by archeologists.
Archeologist Mateusz Sosnowski from the NCU (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Institute of Archeology in Toruń told PAP: "When it comes to research, it was virgin territory.
“It was a great surprise to discover there not only individual elements of a former settlement, but also its surroundings: fields surrounding the hamlet, traces of single
homesteads and even tracts connecting them probable with other settlements."
The remains come from the first centuries of the modern era, Sosnowski and fellow reasearcher who made the discovery, Jerzy Czerniec, believe.
The settlement together with its surrounding fields covers an area of over 170 hectares and the fields are surprisingly regular.
For Americans, that's about 420 acres for them to work with.
Hot damn.
I wonder how they found it? As mentioned, they usually find stuff like this as the result of other construction; digging fields up for farmland, digging foundation, or things like that. What helped them make this discovery?
The archeologists discovered the find using Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS), a tool ever more frequently used by researchers.
As part of a project aimed at creating anti-flood defences among other things, the whole of Poland was covered. ALS enables very thorough inspection of territory, even if it is overgrown with forest and the
differences in height are invisible to the naked eye, as was the case in Bory Tucholskie.
From the article
Think of all the history we're going to lose in deforestation tbh
What bonus did they get for moving a scout onto it?
Another scout.
Audibly giggled. Proud of you
there's no pictures of the buildings or anything like that in the article or anywhere else i looked. dammit
I don't think "intact" is actually an accurate descriptor. The site was undisturbed by humans since being abandoned, but everything that was there has decayed away; what's left are very apparent foundations and crop lines.
remarkable given how much of the country was torn up by the centuries of war and the germans in ww2
Fascinating, surely they kept atleast some basic records of even the smaller villages back then for the sake of taxation/paying the lord of the land right? Just imagine how many other small sites of
ancient society are just out there, forgotten and awaiting someone to find them. Makes me wonder what we'll be like 2000 years from now, will the towns and homes we live and exist still and be lived in, or just memories of a bygone era, a simpler time for humans in comparison. It's really neat stuff to consider, in my opinion
I'm not really sure what the exact political structure was of the region by that point, but they'd be far and away from any sort of formal taxation that I could think of.
From a title like that I was expecting an Uncontacted Tribe to have been found in Europe.
isnt it pretty crazy that this 2000 year old intact village was discovered in a polish forest ??
Seeing as how all we have of the village are literal foundations, and even that, just barely, I don't think any records survived, as @IlluminatiRex pointed out. If any artifacts at all survived, they were likely destroyed or stolen from the site years ago.
What the title made me think:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/458fd682-8df2-4919-b8cd-e6c0f93c6371/image.png
2,000 year old metal roofing?
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