ABSTRACT
The town of Brzesc Kujawski is a dusty crossroads in north-central Poland, about 14 km west of the city of Wloclawek and about 150 km northwest of Warsaw. Although there are numerous archaeological sites around Brzesc Kujawski, the most important are settlements of the first farmers in north-central Europe, between 6000 and 4000 B.C. Although most major Neolithic cultural groups of central and eastern Europe were identified by the early part of the 20th century, very few sites in any given region had been investigated systematically. Jazdzewski differentiated several different sites along the length of the peninsula, designated in the Polish practice by the location of the sites and the order of their discovery. The materials excavated by Jazdzewski and Madajski quickly became widely known in European archaeological literature. There will still be quite a bit to discover around Brzesc Kujawski even a century or more after Jazdzewski first came to the hillside on Lake Smetowo in 1933.
