Seminar „Boundless. The limits of cognition in archaeology”

We cordially invite all doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Humanities and students of other degrees interested in the topic to a meeting with Dr. Juia Burdajewicz (Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), who has conducted numerous multidisciplinary studies at the intersection of archaeology, heritage conservation, iconography and chemistry at archaeological sites in Egypt, Lebanon, Georgia, Armenia and Italy.

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Czajka Grzegorz


Grzegorz Czajka, MA
Department of Barbaricum and the Roman Provincial Archaeology
Non-Invasive and Digital Archeology Laboratory

e-mail:
g.czajka@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 805 (806)

duty hours:
Tuesday 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., room 3.05
Wednesday 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., room 3.05

It is possible to individually schedule a consultation or online meeting via the Google Meets platform.

research interests:
– Bronze Age and Early Iron Age archaeology
– cave archaeology
– spatial analysis
– ceramology
– numismatics

bibliography:
Gryczewska N., Czajka G., Szeliga M., Pyżewicz K., Kot M. (2024) Kamieniste Rockshelter – rediscovery of a Neolithic site. Śląskie Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 66, 99-111.
DOI: 10.34616/ssa.2024.66.99.111

Wojenka M., Kontny B., Przybyła M., Szczepanek A., Jaskulska E., Belka Z., Fetner R., Goslar T., Czajka G., Popović D., Baca M., Wilczyński J., Kot M. (2023) Cave funeral practices during the Roman and Migration Periods in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 52.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104250

Czajka G., Szeliga M., Kot M. (2023) Nie tylko garncarz. Zabytki pradziejowe ze schroniska garncarskiego w Dolinie Sąspowskiej. Prądnik. Prace i materiały Muzeum im. prof. Władysława Szafera, 33, 95-104.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10435156

Kot M., Czajka G., Jaskulska E., Szeliga M., Kontny B., Marciszak A., Mazur M., Wojenka M. (2021) Exceptional sepulchral use of caves in Lusatian culture: new evidence from the Sąspówka Valley in the Polish Jura. Archeologické rozhledy, LXXIII, 200-227.
doi.org/10.35686/AR.2021.7

Leloch M., Jakubczyk M., Przybyła M., Pyżewicz K., Szeliga M., Wojenka M., Czajka G., Kot M. (2021) A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland. Archaeological Prospection.
doi.org/10.1002/arp.1824.

Kot M., Wojenka M., Czajka G., Kontny B., Gryczewska N. (2020) Post-neolithic occupation in Tunel Wielki Cave (Southern Poland). Folia Quaternaria, 88, 17-39.
DOI:10.4467/21995923FQ.20.002.13191

Dziechciarz P., Czajka G. (2020) Materiały tarnobrzeskiej kultury łużyckiej ze stanowiska Ćmielów 95. (w:) M. Przeździecki, W. Migal (red.), Na granicy światów. Obozowisko kultury magdaleńskiej w Ćmielowie, woj. świętokrzyskie, 329-351, Warszawa.

updated list of scientific publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grzegorz-Czajka-2/research

Prof. Adam Izdebski: „Do we need boundaries between scientific disciplines?”

Knowledge is one, just as reality and truth are one, and we desire complete, multi-layered, complex cognition. However, in such an understanding of interdisciplinarity, when going beyond fragmented, disciplinary views of the world, full autonomy of scientific methods is still necessary. And for this we need disciplines, because they are a form of cultivating the autonomy of methods.

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Lecture: “Life after The Ice. Palaeoecological context of the post-glacial human settlements in SW Germany”

Dear Colleagues,
We warmly invite you to a lecture that will take place on Monday, May 26, 2025, at 9:45 AM in room 2.06. Dr. Elisa Luzi from the University of Tübingen will give a talk titled: “Life after The Ice. Palaeoecological context of the post-glacial human settlements in SW Germany”.

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Monday Seminars

Dear Colleagues,

You are warmly invited to attend two guest lectures that will take place this coming Monday, 12 May 2025.

The first lecture will be held at 9:45 AM in room 2.06.
Dr. Mario Mata-Gonzalez from the Max Planck Institute in Jena and the University of Malta will present:

“Did anything change? A zooarchaeological history of the Middle & Upper Paleolithic occupations at Ghar-e Boof, southern Zagros”

The second lecture will be held at 3:00 PM in room 2.07.
Dr. Ivan Rey Rodriguez from the University of Vigo will present:

“Small mammals and their role in Archaeology, from Central Asia to the Caucasus”

Further details can be found in the attached documents.
Both lectures are part of our departmental seminar series, but are open to all interested participants.
We kindly ask you to share this information with any students who may be interested in attending.

With best regards,
Małgorzata Kot
Claudio Berto