Kazimierz Godłowski (December 9, 1934 in

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– July 9, 1995 in Kraków) was a Polish archeologist and historian specializing in the

prehistoric period Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use o ...

. He was the son of Włodzimierz Godłowski, a professor at the

Wilno University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...

, who was murdered by the Soviet

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in 1940 Katyń massacre. Kazimierz Godłowski was an archeology student at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

1951-1955 and from 1955 an academic teacher and researcher at the Institute of Archeology there. 1976-1991 Director of the Institute, full professor from 1983. From 1991 member of the

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. Member of many Polish and foreign scientific societies, including the

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from 1975 and the

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from 1994. From 1992 he was co-editor of the ''Monumenta Archaeologica Barbarica'' series. Godłowski conducted research concerned with the chronology of the

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, the

Migration Period The Migration Period ( 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories ...

in East-Central Europe, the

Przeworsk culture The Przeworsk culture () was an Iron Age material culture in the region of what is now Poland, that dates from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD. It takes its name from the town Przeworsk, near the village where the first artifacts we ...

, the ethnic situation in Europe during La Tène and Roman periods and the origin of the

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. As his research convinced him of the impossibility of settlement continuity in Poland between the ancient and medieval eras, he became steadfastly opposed to the predominant at that time notions and theories of primordial Slavic settlements in Poland, tracing the Slavic origins to even further east in Europe instead. An author of numerous scientific publications in Polish, German and English (''The Chronology of Late Roman and Early Migration Periods in Central Europe (1970)'').

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* The Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University website * Polish Wikipedia biographic article 1934 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Polish archaeologists Jagiellonian University alumni Katyn massacre investigators {{Poland-academic-bio-stub

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