Zielińska Dobrochna

dr hab. Dobrochna Zielińska
dr hab. Dobrochna Zielińska
Katedra Archeologii Egiptu i Nubii

e-mail:
d.zielinska@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 808

duty hours:
Tuesday 9.30 am – 11.30 am, room 308
Wednesday 11.15 am – 1.15 pm, room 308

research interests:
– Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia

The art of the Nile Valley in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Material and immaterial aspects of wall painting, with particular reference to the Nubian wall paintings.

bibliography:
Zielińska, D., „Faras Cathedral: A Witness of Art Development in the Nubian Kingdoms of Nobadia and Makuria”, Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw 5(41), 2016, 46–53

Zielińska, D., „Painted Decoration of the Central Hall: Preliminary Inventory”, [w:] D. Dzierzbicka, W. Godlewski (eds.), Dongola 2012-2014. Report On Excavations, Conservation Work And Site Management, Warsaw, 2016, 25–42

Zielińska, D., „Painted decoration of Building V (Royal Church) on the Citadel: state of research”, [w:] D. Dzierzbicka, W. Godlewski (eds.), Dongola 2012-2014. Report on excavations, conservation work and site management, Warsaw, 2016, 103-110

Zielińska, D., „The Iconography of Power – The Power of Iconography: The Nubian Royal Ideology and Its Expression in Wall-Painting”, [w:] The Fourth Cataract and Beyond Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies, Anderson J.R., Welsby D.A (eds.)[=British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 1], Peeters, Leuven, 2014, 943–950

Zielińska, D., „The painted decoration of the church at Sonqi Tino in the context of the iconographical program of Nubian churches”, Scienze dell’Antichità 18(2013), 413–418

Zielińska, D., „Hawarte 2007. Reconstruction project of the painted decoration”, Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean XIX [=Reports 2007], Warszawa, 2011, 527–535

Zielińska, D., „The Iconographical program in Nubian churches: Progress Report Based on a New Reconstruction Project”, [w:] Between the Cataracts. Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August – 2 September 2006. Part two, fascicule 2 [= PAM Supplement Series 2.2/2], Warszawa, 2010, 643–651

Zielińska, D., „Edifice without parallel: the Cruciform Building on the Citadel in Od Dongola”, [w:] Between the Cataracts. Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August – 2 September 2006. Part two, fascicule 2 [= PAM Supplement Series 2.2/2], Warszawa 2010, 695–703

Zielińska, D., 2004, „The Painted Decoration of the Cruciform Building (B.III) in Dongola. Preliminary Report”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XV: Reports 2003, 216–223

Innemée, K.C. Zielińska, D., „The King and the Cross, the iconography of a painting in the throne hall of Dongola” [w:] Proceedings of the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies (1-6 September, 2014), Peeters Publishers, 2018, 615–624

Danys, K., Zielińska, D., „Alwan Art: Towards an Insight into the Aesthetics of the Kingdom of Alwa through the Painted Pottery Decoration”, Sudan & Nubia 21, 2017,177–85

Łajtar, A. Zielińska, D., „The northern pastophorium of Nubian churches: Ideology and function (on the basis of inscriptions and paintings)” [w:] A. Łajtar, A. Obłuski, I. Zych (eds.), Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Warsaw, 2016, 435–457

Wagner M., Zielińska D. (eds.), Hawarte. Last Masterpieces of Ancient Painters, Wagner M., Zielińska D. (eds.),Warszawa, 2012, “A Roman mithraeum in virtual space”, [w:] The Last Masterpieces of the Ancient Painters: The Mithraeum of Hawarte, Warszawa,  2012, 89-93

Godlewski, W., Obłuski, A., Zielińska, D., 2005  „Uli Island. Preliminary Report”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XVI: Reports 2004, 339–356

Syta, O., Wagner, B., Bulska, E.,  Zielińska, D., Żukowska, G.  Z., Gonzalez, J., Russo, R.,  „Elemental imaging of heterogeneous inorganic samples by means of simultaneous laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurements” , [w:] Talanta. The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry, 179, DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.12.011

Syta, O., Rozum.,K., Choińska, M., Zielińska, D., Żukowska, G. Z., Kijowska, A., Wagner, B., „Analytical procedure for characterization of medieval wall-paintings by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Raman Spectroscopy”, Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Elsevier, 10.1016/j.sab.2014.08.003

Williams, B.,  Danys-Lasek, K., Heidorn, L., Obluski, A., Then-Obluska, J., Reshetnikova, N., Tsakos, A., Zielińska, D.,  „The Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition Publication Project” [w:] Oriental Institute 2012-2013 Annual Report [https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu /files/uploads/shared/docs/ar/11-20/12-13/12-13_OINE.pdf]

Bursche Aleksander

Aleksander Bursche
prof. dr hab. Aleksander Bursche
Katedra Numizmatyki i Muzealnictwa

e-mail:
abursche@uw.edu.pl

Telephone:
+48 22 55 22 827

duty hours:
Wednesday 12.00–14.00, room 3.27

research interests:
I am a full professor specializing in Roman and Barbarian numismatics and relationships between the Classical World and the Barbarians. My other areas of interest include popularisation and public relations in archaeology, cultural heritage management and experimental archaeology. I have been visiting professor at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel (Germany), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University and American Numismatic Society in New York.
I am Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (Frankfurt am Main), a Research Fellow at the Wolfson College (Oxford), Research Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, correspondent member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), member of the Scientific Board of the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw (http://www.kopernik.org.pl/en/) and a President of the Board of the Digital Humanities Consortium DARIAH-PL (http://dariah.pl/en/). I am also member of the board of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Archäologie der Sachsen und ihrer Nachbarvölker in Nordwesteuropa” (https://www.sachsensymposion.org/allgemeine-informationen).
I have participated in many international scientific projects, including: “Atlas of Greek and Roman World” (coordinated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton) and Groupement de Recherche Européen: “Trouvailles monétaires” (coordinated by CNRS in Paris). Recently I have coordinated (as PI) three interdisciplinary and international research projects: 6 years Maestro “Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula” financed by the Polish Science Center (http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/), 6 years “FRCPL: Recording Roman Coin Finds from Poland and Territory Associated Historically with Poland” within the frame of the National Program of Humanities Development (https://coindb-prod.ocean.icm.edu.pl/AFE_PL/), as well as 4 years “IMAGMA: Imagines Maiestatis, Barbarian Coins, Elite Identities and Birth of Europe together with the German Archaeological Institute within Beethoven program (http://www.imagma.eu).
In 2014 the President of Poland  has awarded me with the Polonia Restituta order „for outstanding achievements in research and education in archaeology and on merits in protection and promotion of Polish cultural heritage” and in 2015 the Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded me with the Gilljam Prize for Ancient Numismatics.
Since 2015 I am a member of the Committee of the International Numismatic Council (https://www.inc-cin.org/) and the chief organizer of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, which will take place in 2021 in Warsaw (http://inc2021.pl/).

bibliography:
Aleksander Bursche

Piątkowska-Małecka Joanna

Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka
dr hab. Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka
Department of Bioarchaeology

e-mail:
jmalecka@uw.edu.pl

duty hours:
Monday 8.15 a.m.–9.45 a.m., room 0.28 or 0.29
Wednesday 11.15 a.m.–12.45 p.m., room 0.28 or 0.29

research interests:
– Prehistoric hunting of mammals
– Animal economy on Polish-Russian borderland in Middle Ages
– Animal burials and bone artefacts from Bronze Age graves on the Polish territory
– Animals in the economy and religion of the Middle Eastern Bronze Age
– Animal economy in Levant in Iron Age

bibliography:
Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka

Castillo de Huarmey. The Wari Empire Centre on the North Coast of Peru.

Castillo de Huarmey, phot. Miłosz Giersz
Castillo de Huarmey, phot. Miłosz Giersz

Person conducting excavation: Miłosz Giersz, PhD
Country: Peru
Site name: Huramey
Type of the site: settlement, palace, temple, cemetery. Wari Empire (600 – 1050 n.e.).
Involved institutions: IAUW, PUCP, NGS, APPEA

Description of the research:
Twelve centuries ago, in a Peruvian desert on the Pacific coast, on the outskirts of the first empire of pre-Columbian Andes, called Wari by archaeologists, a new centre of power was established, with Castillo de Huarmey as its capital. Centuries before the Inca rose to power, the rulers of the Wari Empire developed a unique culture that created rare works of art and architecture. Castillo de Huarmey became one of the richest necropolis of the Wari Empire elites.

phot. Miłosz Giersz
phot. Miłosz Giersz

The Huarmey Valley, located in the Ancash region about 300 km north of the capital of Peru, Lima, is one of the many river valleys on the desert Pacific coast. In that peaceful oasis, over a millennium ago, the Wari people established a new centre of power. Castillo de Huarmey, located 1 km (0.6 mi) east from the present-day capital of the Huarmey province, covers an area of 45 ha. It is dominated by a monumental palace and the royal necropolis built above it, on the summit of a natural rock hill. Plundered and damaged over decades, only in 2010 were the ruins of the capital of a Wari Empire province finally, and extensively, studied, when a team led by Miłosz Giersz and Patrycja Prządka-Giersz, both from the University of Warsaw, with Krzysztof Makowski and Roberto Pimentel Nita from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima), carried out the first archaeological excavations. There, after years of work, a Polish-Peruvian team of archaeologists directed by dr. Milosz Giersz from the University of Warsaw, Poland, unearthed the first undisturbed royal tomb of pre-Columbian Wari civilization that consisted of remains of 58 noblewomen, 6 human sacrifices, two mutilated guardians and over 1300 artefacts made of gold, silver, bronze, decorated pottery as well as rare wood, bone, and shell and stone materials. This discovery was considered by National Geographic Society and ARCHAEOLOGY. A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America as one of the most important archaeological findings worldwide. Those archaeological excavations brought as many unique data as new research questions that archaeologists are trying to answer by continuing multidisciplinary research at this unique pre-Columbian site.

Project financing:
The 2010 field season of the Castillo de Huarmey Archaeological Project was supported by grants from the National Science Center of the Republic of Poland (2970/B/H03/2009/37) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (579/N-PERU/2009/0). The 2012-2018 field seasons of the Castillo de Huarmey Archaeological Project were supported by grants from the National Science Center of the Republic of Poland (NCN 2011/03/D/HS3/01609 and NCN 2014/14/M/HS3/00865), the National Geographic Society (EC0637-13, GEFNE85-13, GEFNE116-14 and W335-14) and financial support from Compañia Minera Antamina S.A. Many Project’s initiatives were also supported by the Foundation for Polish Science (grant KWERENDA 2011/195), the National Science Center (grants NCN 2015/18 / E / HS3 / 00106 and NCN 2015/19 / N / HS3 / 00880) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Diamond Grant 2013012043), as well as the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, Polish-Peruvian Society for Andean Studies, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Peru and the local government of Huarmey.

Giersz Miłosz

Miłosz Giersz
dr hab. Miłosz Giersz, prof. ucz.
Department of Archaeology of the Americas

e-mail:
mgiersz@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 823

duty hours:
Monday 11.30–13.00, room 3.23

research interests:
South American archaeology, funeral Archaeology, pre-Columbian material culture, archaeometry, public archaeology, anthropological archaeology

bibliography:
Academia.edu

Polish archaeologist, the University of Warsaw graduate. For his PhD dissertation, defended in 2007, he was awarded The Prime Minister’s of Republic of Poland Award, as well as the Ignacio Domeyko Award for the best Latin-American PhD, founded by the Polish Society for Latin American Studies. Since 2002 he has co-directed two consecutive Polish-Peruvian archaeological projects in the northwestern Peru: the Valle de Culebras Archaeological Project, and the Castillo de Huarmey Archaeological Project. During the latter, he led the team that excavated a pre-Columbian royal mausoleum at Castillo de Huarmey with the first unlooted royal tomb of the queens of Wari, an ancient civilization of South America predating the Inca empire (ca. 600 – 1050 AD). This sensational discovery was voted as one of the Top 10 Discoveries by the Archaeological Institute of America in 2013, and enjoyed wide coverage by the National Geographic Magazine, both its International (June 2014) and worldwide editions (June-August 2014), for many of which it was chosen as the cover story. He has been awarded with the “Zostańcie z nami!” [Stay with us!] scholarship for outstanding young researchers, founded by the biggest Polish weekly magazine Polityka (VIII Edition, 2007), a TRAVELER 2013 National Geographic Award for the most important Polish scientific achievement of the year (2013), and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2015) and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Peru (2018), for the achievements in the field of science and outstanding contributions in the cooperation between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Peru. Dr. Giersz is widely recognized as an expert on the Andean and South American archaeology. He is a member of many societies connected with his profession, including The Explorers Club and the Society for American Archaeology. He acts as the President of Polish Society for Latin American Studies. He is also the author of many books and articles on archaeology and art of the pre-Hispanic Latin American cultures. His previous and current research projects were financially supported by many polish and foreign institutions, including of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, the National Science Center, the Foundation for Polish Science, the Expeditions Council of the National Geographic Society, the Global Exploration Fund and the National Geographic Society Waitt Grants Program, as well as the ANTAMINA mining company. He also organised (as curator or co-organizer) diverse museum and poster exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including  the exhibition Castillo de Huarmey. El Mausoleo Imperial Wari organised at the Museo de Arte (Museum of Art) in Lima in 2014, and Skarby Peru. Królewski grobowiec w Castillo de Huarmey at the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw (December 2017 – May 2018). This last one was the first museum exhibition in Poland of original pre-Columbian artefacts brought from Peru. It was also Europe’s first opportunity to see the unique artefacts discovered at Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site.

Lubanowo Lake – ritual place

Person conducting excavation: prof. Bartosz Kontny
Country: Poland
Site name: Lubanowo Lake
Type of the site: ritual place
Involved institutions: Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Lubanowo Lake, phot. Aleksander Kozłowski
Lubanowo Lake, phot. Aleksander Kozłowski

Description of the research:
Since 2014 the team from the University of Warsaw has been conducting an underwater survey in Lake Lubanowo in Western Pomerania. It unveiled traces of a three-millennium-long human activity, including i.a. an Iron Age logboat, a Roman Period war-booty offering, Medieval deposits, a copper cauldron from ca AD 1600, private stamp of a Prussian general from the early nineteenth century. During underwater research weapons, tools, and horse harness elements were found dated mainly to the Roman Period; some of them bear traces of ritual destruction. The parallels to weapons may be pointed out namely in Central Europe and, to some extent, in Scandinavia. The site should be attributed to sacrificial military deposits, known generally from northern Europe, but until recently unknown to the south of the Baltic Sea. Its extraordinary character is manifested by the fact that the site is still in its ‘lake stage’, not a bog, into which ancient lakes have evolved due to the process of eutrophication. Most probably the site was used by local inhabitants, i.e. the people of the Lubusz group, in the 1st until the early 3rd c. AD but at least some of deposited weapons may be linked to the neighbouring cultural groups. The author presents first conclusions concerning the character of the deposit.

Literature:
B. Kontny, T. Nowakiewicz, A. Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz, The Turning Point: preliminary results of underwater research of the former Herrn-See at the vilage of Lubanowo (Western Pomerania, Poland), “Archaeologia Baltica” 23 (2016), 45–57.

Starożytne miejsce ofiarne w jeziorze w Lubanowie na Pomorzu Zachodnim, ed. Tomasz Nowakiewicz, Warszawa: IA UW 2016.

Łukaszewicz Ewa

dr Łukaszewicz Ewa
dr Łukaszewicz Ewa

Ewa Łukaszewicz, PhD 

e-mail:
emarczak@uw.edu.pl

duty hours:
Tuesday 9:00 – 11:00

research interests:
The Archaeology of Early Middle Ages, Social Archaeology, Cognitive Archaeology, Ceramology (pottery), Archaeological Research Methodology (no-destruction methods)