Investigations into amber

Investigations into amber - Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz

In 1997 the latest in a series of international amber conferences took place at the Gdansk Archaeological Museum, as one of many special events marking the city's millennium. The wealth and diversity of the presented research results far outweighed expectations and proved to be of great interest to the attending delegates, who represented a broad range of disciplines. The sudden surge of new developments in amber studies, which began in the 1970s, was repeated in the early 1990s, when research workers were granted access to amber deposits in Sambia. During the Russian communist era the Sambian peninsula was strictly out of bounds to foreign scientists, whilst literature relating to it was only available in Russian and, hence, read almost exclusively in Eastern Bloc countries. The papers published in this volume cover a wide variety of topics. Deposits in Sambia and Ukraine are given comprehensive coverage, whilst earlier debate about the origins and age of Bitterfeld deposits is resumed. The latest results of research into Palaeogene amber-bearing sediments in southern Poland are also feature in this publication.