Search for: [Abstract = %22The development of archaeology in 19th%5C-century Europe resulted in more and more precise archaeological maps comprising the data that researchers had gathered in their studies and excavations. In the mid 19th century%2C Polish scholars linked to the Cracow Learned Society proposed a new method of improving the archaeological documentation%2C namely devising a common system of cartographic symbols. The project%2C presented to the European forum of anthropologists and archaeologists%2C aroused much interest%2C was discussed and subsequently endorsed as one of the not so many issues that the international congresses of anthropology and archaeology settled quickly and explicitly. The project%2C first reported to the congresses by Count Aleksander Przezdziecki%2C was completed after his death by Ernest Chantre from France. The very idea and its elaboration%2C however%2C came from the Polish environment and were intended to overcome the borders and particularisms of 19th%5C-century Europe with the use of a common scientific language%22]

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