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On display: 11 July - 30 September 2023
Exhibition curator: dr Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska
Polish archaeologists have been carried out research on the Stone Age in northeast Africa since the 1960s. At that time, Professor Romuald Schild from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw began collaborating with the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE) founded in 1962 by Fred Wendorf. Many years of joint research have resulted in the discovery of several hundred archaeological sites of different chronology, dating from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. The artefacts, selected examples of which are presented in the exhibition, are mainly tools made of various types of stone raw material used by Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
In 1972, Lech Krzyżaniak from the Archeological Museum in Poznań began his research at the Neolithic settlement and cemetery at Kadero near Khartoum. Among the many captivating finds were carnelian and malachite ornaments and tools made of agate, quartz, chert, rhyolite and petrified wood, demonstrating the advanced craft skills of prehistoric communities.
