Pollen Study Reveals Collapse of Early Polish State - Archaeology Magazine

Pollen Study Reveals Collapse of Early Polish State - Archaeology Magazine

Residence of the first Polish dynasty, Lake Lednica, Poland JENA, GERMANY—According to a Wood Central report, early medieval pollen records are the key to understanding the collapse of early human settlements in Central Europe, in what is today Poland. A team of researchers led by Adam Izdebski of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology accumulated records from Saxony, Bohemia, and Prussia, where the former first kingdom of Poland was locate…

Why the First Polish State Collapsed: An Environmental and Political Breakdown

A new study uncovers why Poland’s first kingdom—the Piast state—collapsed so quickly, linking slave trade wealth, ecological intensification, and political fragility. Archaeology, pollen records, and coin hoards reveal the state’s rapid rise—and sudden unraveling.