Witold Maria Hensel (born March 29, 1917 in

Gniezno Gniezno (; german: Gnesen; la, Gnesna) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. One of the Piast dynasty's chief cities, ...

, died on November 22, 2008, in

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) was a Polish

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

. He was a member of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

and a member of the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

in PRL ( SD, 1985–1989).

Publications

*The Origins of Western and Eastern Slav Towns, Witold Hensel, World Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1, Recent Work and New Approaches (Jun., 1969), pp. 51–6

*Polska Starożytna (En:ancient Poland) ;by Witold Hensel ;January 1988, Book, 3rd edition ; *Excavations of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites in South-Eastern Poland ;by Sarunas Milisauskas, Witold Hensel, Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej (Polska Akademia Nauk); January 1985; Paperback ; *Przemiany Ludnościowe I Kulturowe I Tysiaclecia P.N.E. Na Ziemiach Miedzy Odra a Dnieprem: Materiay Z Polsko-Radzieckiego Sympozjum Paleodemograficznego, Warszawa, 6-9 Grudnia 1977 by Polska Akademia Nauk, Witold Hensel; January 1983, Book ; ; *Archeologia Medioevale Polacca in Italia ;by Witold Hensel, Stanisaw Tabaczynski ;January 1981, Book ;

References

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