Abstract
<jats:p>The monograph Archaeology on the Kazimierza Wielka bypass: from the traces of early farmers to the Early Bronze Age in the Nidzica Valley edited by three Kraków archaeologists presents a study of the results of rescue research conducted in connection with the construction of the Kazimierza Wielka bypass in the Świętokrzyskie province (south Poland) in the years 2019-2021. Here we receive a full study of archaeological materials from several multicultural sites, mainly from the Neolithic, Eneolithic and early Bronze Age. The subsequent chapters give an astonishing picture of the dispersion of traces of the presence of representatives of some cultures, e.g. from the end of the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the landscape of the loess upland. Without this type of wide-spatial action, our assessment of the size of settlements or cemeteries remains distorted by the research of distinctive sites. The monograph is supplemented by an analysis of flint inventories, archaeozoological analyses and bioarchaeological analyses of human remains. Isotopic analyses of carbon and nitrogen allowed for the reconstruction of the diet of some individuals, and studies of the isotopic composition of strontium determined the origin and mobility of the studied communities. The publication is co-financed by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund, awarded under the competition „Protection of archaeological monuments”.</jats:p>