Since 2024, KAFU has been supporting the research project of Agata Chilińska-Früboes, “Fibulor – The Unknown Oscar Almgren Archive.” The aim of the project is the scholarly study of part of the previously unknown archive of Oscar Almgren (1869–1945), one of the most renowned European archaeologists.
The focus of this study is Almgren’s notes on fibulae from the Pre-Roman, Roman, and Migration periods, which he compiled as part of his material collection for his doctoral dissertation. His typology of fibulae—one of the most important find categories of the Iron Age—remains valid and in use to this day.
Other KAFU members involved in the project are Anna Bitner-Wróblewska, Audronė Bliujienė, and Heino Neumayer.
Cooperation between the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and the Commission for the Study of Archaeological Finds and Documents (KAFU) and the Museum in Sumy in Ukraine
The Museum of Local History in the town of Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine, which opened in July 1920, was completely destroyed in a German air raid on 30 October 1941. The rich ethnological, numismatic, palaeontological and archaeological exhibits as well as the archive were largely destroyed. After the withdrawal of the German troops in 1943/44, parts of the collection were salvaged from the ruins of the building and are now once again part of the museum collection. Their re-identification is one of the main tasks of today’s museum. Continue reading “Cooperation between the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and the Commission for the Study of Archaeological Finds and Documents (KAFU) and the Museum in Sumy in Ukraine”