other:
Since 2007 – director of the Polish-Slovak Archaeological Mission in Tell el-Retaba. Since 2006 – co-organizer of the annual conference “Poles on the Nile”
research interests:
Research interests: archeology of the Early Middle Ages (or Viking Age), especially:
1. Archeology of the Balt lands (with special emphasis on the archeology of Old Prussian lands in the Viking Age and the confrontation of the Balts with the Latin world during the Northern Crusades);
2. Recognition and interpretation of bog-sites (with particular emphasis on the question of ancient cult deposits);
3. Archival archeology and issues of identifying dispersed archaeological collections;
4. Various aspects of economy in the Early Middle Ages (especially silver hoards and silver circulation).
research interests:
– medieval history and archaeology of Poland and Europe
– archaeological theories and methods
– application of isotopic and molecular methods in archaeology
research interests:
– auxiliary methods in archaeology (geophysics, photointerpretation)
– lychnology
– Roman pottery
– archaeometry in ceramics studies
– ancient trade and amphorae
– material culture
– archaeology of the Upper Adriatic and the Venetian Lagoon
Selected bibliography (also published under the name Iwona Modrzewska)
Department of Underwater Archaeology Faculty of Archaeology UW:
Iwona Modrzewska, Studio iconologico delle lucerne siro-palestinesi del IV-VII sec. D.C., seria Rivista di Arch. Supplementi 4, ed. Giorgio Bretschneider, Roma 1988.
Iwona Modrzewska, Anfore spagnole nel Veneto. Testimonianze dei contatti commerciali Betica-Venetia, ed. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa 1995.
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Sulla storia della laguna di Venezia nell’ Antichita’, seria Światowit Supplement Series A: Antiquity, vol IV, ed. Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Varsavia 2000.
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Zarys archeologii Hiszpanii rzymskiej, IA UW, seria podręczników vol. VI, Warszawa 2002.
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Północ Italii przedrzymskiej. Człowiek i środowisko, wyd. Trio, Warszawa 2009. (Academia.edu)
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, J.Molina Gómez (ed.), Contactos comerciales de la región de Murcia (España) con el mundo mediterráneo en la Antigüedad, Varsovia 2019.
selected publications in books:
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Amphores bétiques à conserves de poisson importées en Gaule Cisalpine, in: Multa per Aeqvora. Il polisemico significato della moderna ricercha archeologica, Omaggio a Sara Santoro, M. Cavalieri, C. Boschettti ( eds.), Louvin la Neuve ( Belgique), 2018, str. 374-368. (Academia.edu)
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Importy garum i salsamentum na obszary Górnego Adriatyku w okresie rzymskim na podstawie znalezisk amfor, in: Animos labor nutrit, T. Nowakiewicz et als (eds.), str. 103-114. (Academia.edu)
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Las ánforas locales e importadas procedientes de Bahía de Mazarrón, in: Contactos comerciales de la región de Murcia (Espaňa) con el mundo mediterráneo en la Antigüedad, I. Modrzewska, Pianetti, J. Molina Gómez (eds.), Varsavia 2019, str. 57-126. (Academia.edu)
I. Modrzewska-Pianetti, F. Pianetti, la laguna di Venezia in epoca romana, in: Industria Apium. L’ archeologie: une demarche singuliere, des practique multiples, Hommage a Raymond Brulet, ed. M. Cavalieri, Louvin la Neuve (Belgique), 2012, str. 205-216. (Academia.edu)
articles (selected):
wraz z G. Taroni, F. Pianetti, Un anfora della laguna di Venezia, ARCHEOLOGIA E CALCOLATORI 21, 2010 (ed. 2011), str. 201-210.
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Amphores romaines tardives et la stratigraphie de l’ île de San Lorenzo (lagune de Venise). Discussion et nouvelles observations, ÉTUDES ET TRAVAUX XXIX (PAN), 2016, str. 135-156. (Academia.edu)
Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti, Les importations d’ amphores Dressel 20 en Gaule Cisalpine, ÉTUDES ET TRAVAUX XXX (PAN), 2017, str. 389-407. (Academia.edu)
reviews (selected):
Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua ISSN: 0213-0181 http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/geri.68620 José Remesal Rodríguez (ed.), Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten) y el Mediterráneo. El comercio de los alimentos (=Col·lecció Instrumenta 63. Union Académique Internationale, Corpus International des timbres amphoriques 26), Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018, 513 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-9168-197-7]. (Academia.edu)
research interests:
archaeology of the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods; archaeology of East and Southeast Asia; trade and communication routes in Asia in the 1st millennium CE; long-range trade in Asia; production and distribution of silk in the 1st millennium CE
research interests:
– underwater archaeology
– waterfront archaeology
– archaeological maritime landscape
– underwater cultural heritage
– bronze and early iron age period in the Baltic Sea region
other:
Coordinator for UNESCO Unitwin Network for Underwater Archaeology Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa
other:
A website presenting the results of excavations conducted on the Przeworsk Culture cemetery at Gołębiewo (in Polish): http://archeo.uw.edu.pl/golebiewo/
research interests:
bioarchaeology, anthropology, archaeometry
bibliography:
2011 Wpływ zarazy Justyniana na ekspansję Słowian na Bałkanach: przesłanki paleodemograficzne, Slavia Antiqua 52: 103-118.
2013 Excavation at Bakr Awa 2010 and 2011, Iraq 75: 43-88. [wraz z: P. Miglus, U. Bürger, S. Mühl, A. Sollee]
2013 Shape and Distribution of Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) Scavenging Marks on a Bovine Skull, Journal of Tahonomy 11 (1): 41-47. [wraz z A. Sołtysiak]
2014 Pochówki męskie na wczesnośredniowiecznych cmentarzyskach grodowych Kalisza i Giecza [w:] W. Dzieduszycki, J. Wrzesiński (red.), Królowie i biskupi, rycerze i chłopi – identyfikacja zmarłych. Funeralia Lednickie. Spotkanie 16, Poznań, s. 63-71.
2014 The Results of Anthropological Research of Human Remains from the Old Babylonian Tomb from Bakr Awa, Iraq [w:] P. Bieliński i in. (red.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 30 April-3 May2012, University of Warsaw, tom. 3. Wiesbaden, s. 319-328.
2016 Problemy i perspektywy badań paleodemograficznych nad kulturą wielbarską na przykładzie cmentarzyska w Kowalewku, Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski 38.3: 8-29. [wraz z: M. Chmiel- Chrzanowska]
2017 Taphonomy of human remains exposed in burial chambers, with special reference to Near Eastern hypogea, ossuaries and burial caves [w:] J. Bradbury, C. Scarre (red). Engaging with the death. Exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body, Oxford, s. 67-76. [wraz z: A. Soltysiak]
2017 Dieta i status we wczesnośredniowiecznej Polsce: analiza izotopów trwałych kolagenu kostnego [w:] M. Kopczyński, A. Sieniarska (red.), Budowa fizyczna człowieka na ziemiach polskich wczoraj i dziś, Warszawa, s. 147-159.
Eployees:
Dr Anna Smogorzewska
Dr Franciszek Stępniowski
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Kaim
Dr hab. Dorota Ławecka
Dr hab. Dariusz Szeląg
Dr hab. Tomasz Waliszewski
Dr hab. Krzysztof Jakubiak
Mgr Marcin Wagner
Dr hab. Prof. UW Jolanta Młynarczyk
Dr Mariusz Burdajewicz