This document provides acknowledgments and context for a monograph titled "Population Dynamics, Diet and Migrations of the Únětice Culture in Poland". The monograph presents a bioarchaeological study of the Únětice culture in Poland from the Early Bronze Age, focusing on territories in Lower Silesia. It consists of eight parts covering burial rites, site distributions, chronology, isotopic analyses of human remains, lifestyles, diseases, social subgroups, diet, mobility, and the impact on society. The monograph uses isotopic analysis of human remains to study the Únětice culture from a paleodemographic perspective.

1. Acknowledgments
D a l i a A n n a Po k u t t a
Forging Identities. The Mobility of
Culture in Bronze Age Europe.
The European Union Seventh
Framework Programme
Department of Anthropology
University of Wrocław, Poland
Abstract
Department of Archaeology
University of Wrocław, Poland
Archaeological Museum of Wrocław,
Poland
Polish Academy of Science
Wrocław, Poland
Wallenberg Laboratory University of
Stockholm, Sweden
Ångström Isotopic Laboratory
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Isotopic Laboratory University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
14Chrono
Centre Queen’s University
of Belfast, United Kingdom
Göteborg Natural History Museum, Sweden
Institutionen för historiska studier
Göteborgs universitet
Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6

2. Population Dynamics, Diet and
Migrations of
the Únětice Culture in Poland
Metal has changed everything.
No substance has ever been as important
as metal in the history of man's control of
his environment. Six metals were used in
prehistory: gold, silver, copper, tin, lead
and iron. However it was the discovery of
bronze, an alloy of the two metals, that
dramatically altered the development of
the civilization...
T
he role of the Únětice Culture in the formation of Bronze Age Europe cannot be
overrated. The rise and the existence of this
original, expansive and dynamic population
marks one of the most interesting moments in
European prehistory, the period of breakthrough when one era came to an end, and another begun.
The monograph is bioarchaeological study of
the Únětice culture in Poland, focusing particularly on the territories of Lower Silesia (SW
Poland). The study presents the Únětice Culture from palaeodemographic perspective
based on the results of isotopic analysis of human remains dating back to the Early Bronze
Age (2200-1600 B.C).
It consists of eight parts, covering all major
issues regarding the Úněticean Early Bronze
Age in Poland and Central Europe from archaeological perspective: burial rites, types of
interments, spatial distribution of artifacts,
quality and quantity of human skeletal materials. It presents number of sites in geographical
environment of Silesia, their relative and absolute chronology as well as a detailed methodology of isotopic analyses, especially carbon, nitrogen and strontium.
Subsequent chapters focus on the Early
Bronze Age lifestyle, medical knowledge and
diseases, occupations and chosen subgroups of
the Silesian prehistoric society, such as the tribal aristocracy, children and elders. Study provides information regarding diet and subsistence, transportation, human migrations and
territorial mobility in prehistoric Central Europe
as well as the impact of these upon Úněticean society, expansion of metallurgy and commerce,
forms and evolution of rulership and collective
identity.
Keywords: Early Bronze Age, Únětice culture, palaeodemography, bioarchaeology, stable isotopes, Bronze Age diet, Bronze
Age mobility, population dynamics, Central Europe.
ISSN 0282 - 6860
ISBN 978-91-85245-53-4
New Archaeological Monograph
Language: English, 360 pages +CD
Book distribution:
Department of Archaeology
Gothenburg University, Sweden
Enquiries:
Kristian.Kristiansen@archaeology.gu.se
Price: 17 €
Dalia Anna Pokutta
born 5. June 1979 in Germany;
archaeologist and historian,
graduate of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Her interests
focus on palaeodemography and
bioarchaeology as well as paleopathology and stable isotopes
analyses of human and faunal
remains.