Commission on the Prehistory of the Carpathians

The commission, which was formed in 1996, brings together researchers dealing with the earliest history of settlement in the Carpathians, who are mainly archaeologists, but are also palaeobotanists and palaeogeographers. The following research topics are now occupying the commission:

1. Humans in the Carpathians in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene: the Prehistoric use of Carpathian caves.
2. The first farmers and stock rearers in the Carpathians: the question of the neolithisation of the Carpathians.
3. Adaptation of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements to the environmental conditions of the Carpathians: the flourishing of pastoral communities.
4. Settlement processes in late prehistory and protohistory, with particular reference to the early Middle Ages.

Settlement processes in late prehistory and protohistory, with particular reference to the early Middle Ages. The commission’s proceedings do not appear annually. Instead, the results of the research, which mainly involves Polish-Slovakian cooperation, are issued every few years in a number of large volumes. The commission publishes a yearbook entitled Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, which features original work devoted to questions of the archaeology of mountain regions – especially the Carpathians. It first appeared in 1958. Since volume 54 (2019), it has appeared under the PAU imprint.

https://www.ejournals.eu/AAC/

Commission Members