TY - GEN N1 - ill. ; 29 cm N2 - In the basins of the Middle and Upper Obra, Barycz and Middle Prosna Rivers, there are numerous fortified settlements which time of construction and activity fell within the so-called tribal period. In the literature on the subject, the view prevails, according to which they were seats of the tribal aristocracy. This paper presents a different approach, which focuses on the social and symbolic context of the presence of these structures in the early medieval landscape. The analysis of the form of the fortified settlements and their location in the settlement structure of the discussed area in the 9th and 10th centuries, was the starting point for the considerations. The considerations also take into account the potential functions of features discovered within the ramparts of the examined fortified settlements. They resulted in the recognition of the fortified settlements as multifunctional central places of tribal communities, and their potential functions were: a place of holding people’s assemblies and religious practices, a treasury, a point of military resistance, and perhaps also a market square and a residence of selected people. The collapse of these fortified settlements can be associated with the consolidation of the Polish state in the times of Bolesław I the Brave and the translocation of the population to the vicinity of large centres of ducal power L1 - http://rcin.org.pl/Content/67449/PDF/WA308_87485_PIII149_Miejsce-w-krajobrazi_I.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 66 (2018) J2 - A place within the landscape and the functions of early medieval fortified settlements in the Middle and Upper Obra, Barycz and Middle Prosna River basins in the 9th and 10th centuries PY - 2018 EP - 282 KW - early medieval fortified settlements KW - Slavs KW - landscape archaeology KW - medieval archaeology KW - symbolism KW - Slavic cosmology A1 - Chrzan, Krystian PB - Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk PB - Ośrodek Badań nad Kulturą Późnego Antyku i Wczesnego Średniowiecza VL - 66 CY - Wrocław SP - 261 T1 - Miejsce w krajobrazie oraz funkcje wczesnośredniowiecznych grodów w dorzeczach środkowej i górnej Obry, Baryczy oraz środkowej Prosny w IX i X w. UR - http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/67449 ER -