NEOLITHIC CIRCULAR ENCLOSURES – MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS BUILT TWO MILLENNIA BEFORE THE PYRAMIDS – ALSO IN WESTERN POMERANIA

As a result of the popularization of aerial archaeology methods in the last twenty-five years, a number of remains of monumental buildings from the Neolithic period, called roundels, have been discovered in western Poland. They had a circular plan and an external diameter of 70–200 m. They consisted of one or several circles of wooden palisade, which in turn were surrounded by circles of earth ditches. The northernmost site of this type was discovered in Nowe Objezierze near Cedynia – less than 80 km south of Szczecin. The author postulates to include these sites built of wood and earth in the history of architecture of our region, and shift its starting point to around the 49th–47th century BC, i.e. 2000 years before the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.