Chairs

address:
00-927 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna, pokój 3.25 tel. +48 22 55 22 825

head of the department:
dr hab. Sławomir Rzepka

scientific members:
dr hab. Mirosław Barwik
mgr Łukasz Jarmużek
dr Marta Kaczanowicz
mgr Adrianna Madej-Ciuba
dr hab. Anna Wodzińska
dr hab. Dobrochna Zielińska 

dr Karel Innemée

PhD students
Agata Bebel-Nowak – agata.bebel@student.uw.edu.pl
Bogusław Franczyk
Dagmara Haładaj
Adrianna Madej-Ciuba
Agnieszka Ryś-Jarmużek

Address: 00-927 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna, tel. 55-22-805 (806, 807), room 3.05, 3.06, 3.07, 3.09

Head of the Department:
dr hab. Adam Cieśliński, prof. UW

Employees:
Sylwia Domaradzka, PhD
dr hab. Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski
dr hab. Bartosz Kontny, prof. UW
Andrzej Maciałowicz, PhD
Andrzej Szela, PhD
dr hab. Paweł Szymański, prof. UW
dr hab. Agnieszka Tomas
Karolina Trusz, PhD

 

Information about the Department:

The present Department was created in 2020 from two other departments in the former Insitutute of Archaeology UW: Department of Archaeology of Ancient Europe and Department of Archaeology of the Roman Provinces.

The department employees specialize in the archeology of barbarian Europe from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages (2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium AD) and in the archeology of Roman provinces (2nd century BC – 6th century AD), with particular emphasis on the European part of the Roman Empire and frontier (limes) studies, as well as the issues related to Roman army. An important aspect of the research conducted by the staff of the department is the mutual relations between the barbarian and Roman world, including military, trade and diplomatic relations.

The current research on Barbaricum concerns mainly various aspects of the material and spiritual culture of the Baltic and Germanic peoples, including burial rituals, settlement structures, weapons and methods of fighting, the ancient “fashion” and interregional contacts.

A great part of our research focuses on the archival archeology, which aims to restore the scientific circulation of “forgotten” sources, often scattered during World War II.

The field research focuses on the area of ​​northern Poland and includes sites with various characteristics: cemeteries, settlements and ceremonial sites.

The research on the Roman frontier and Roman army is realised through the excavations in Novae – a Roman legionary fortress and a late Roman town in today’s northern Bulgaria. It is the site with the longest history of Polish research abroad, where Polish archaeologists have been excavating continuously since 1960.

The research in recent years has focused on recognizing the chronology of the least explored part of the site, the so-called late antique annex – the area included in the fortress at the end of the 3rd century.

Thanks to non-invasive and then excavation research, it was possible to conclude that there was a previously unknown civilian-military necropolis in this place, functioning at least until the 1960s.

Since 2021, we’ve started excavations in the center of the legionary camp, at the rear of the legion’s headquarters building. Similarly to other Roman legionary camps, there should be buildings very important for the functioning of the unit.

Over the last decade, employees and doctoral students associated with the Department have also carried out research projects in other positions related to the Roman army – in Herzegovina (Tomasz Dziurdzik at Ljubuški, Roman Dalmatia,) and Romania (Emil Jęczmienowski at Pojejena, Roman Dacia).

An important part of the research on the Roman army is also the non-excavation research project, the aim of which is to recreate the appearance of the building of the headquarters of the camp (principia) in Novae and its decoration, in particular the statues and altars that adorned both the temple of banners and the courtyard of the building. More on that project you can find here.

Excavations:

Poland

Czerwony Dwór, site XXI, commune Kowale Oleckie, voivodeship warmińsko-mazurskie. A cremation cemetery of the Sudovian culture. https://czerwonydwor.edu.pl

Nowy Łowicz, site 2, commune Kalisz Pomorski, voivodeship zachodniopomorskie. The barrow cemetery of the Lusatian and Wielbark cultures (in cooperation with the Museum in Koszalin). https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/nowy-lowicz-cmentarzyska-i-osady/
53°20′57″N 15°46′29″E

Lake Lubanowo, commune Banie, voivodeship zachodniopomorskie. Sacrificial site from the Roman Period and early Middle Ages (research in cooperation with the Department for Underwater Archaeology, University of Warsaw). 53°07′46″N 14°36′44″E

Zgliczyn Pobodzy, site 8 and 9, commune Bieżuń, voivodeship mazowieckie. A settlement and a cemetery from the pre-Roman, Roman and Migration Periods.

Abroad

Novae (today Svishtov, northern Bulgaria). Legionary camp and late Roman town (1st-6th century AD). Research conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Archeology and the Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.

Grants:

English translation of the book by Bartosz Kontny, “Archeology of War. Studies on the armament of barbaric Europe in the Roman and Migration Periods”. NPRH grant no. BPM.WPH.62.45.2020.SS.

Brudnice, site V. A Cemetery from the middle of a settlement emptiness. Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (program Protection of archaeological monuments). https://fundacjavaria.pl/brudnice-stan-v-nekropola-ze-srodka-pustki-osadniczej

Dąbek, site 9. A Cemetery of the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures in northern Mazovia. Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (program Protection of archaeological monuments). Facebook information page    Facebook

Extramural settlement near the Roman legionary fortress at Novae (Lower Moesia) and its fate in Late Antiquity, NCN, OPUS 10, nr UMO-2015/19B/HS3/017/90. Implementation period: 5.06.2016 – 5.06.2021. More on the project and visit our fanpage

In medio castrorum. Sculptural and epigraphic landscape of the central part of the legionary fortress at Novae, NCN, OPUS 11, nr UMO-2016/21/B/HS3/00030. Implementation period: 02.02.2017 – 01.10.2022. More on the project

direction:
Faculty of Archeology, 00-927 Warsaw, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, ‘Main School’, rooms: 0.36, 3.13, j 3.21, 3.21a.

head of the Department:
Tomasz Nowakiewicz, habilitated doctor

faculty:
Karolina Blusiewicz, PhD, lecturer
Dariusz Błaszczyk, PhD, lecturer
Michał Starski, PhD, lecturer
Marek Truszkowski, MSc, technical assistent
Sławomir Wadyl, PhD, assistant
Mikalai Plavinski, PhD
Ludwika Jończyk, MSc

PhD Candidates:
Maciej Miścicki, MSc
Marek Truszkowski, MSc

retired employees:
Wojciech Wróblewski, PhD
professor Andrzej Buko
professor of UW Joanna Kalaga
professor Jerzy Kruppé
Martyna Milewska, MSc

about the Department:

The Department was created from the fusion of two departments of the former Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw: the Department of Early Medieval Archaeology and the Department of Late Medieval and Modern Era Archaeology. The areas of interest of the staff fall within the broad spectrum of problems relevant to these periods (i.e. early and late Middle Ages and modern times), along with their specificity and scientific workshop. The subject of research are various aspects of the material and spiritual culture of those times, reconstructed on the basis of archaeological sources, obtained, among others as a result of own field works, carried out mainly in the area of northern and north-eastern Poland (within the borders of early medieval Pomerania and the Prussian-Yotvingian lands and the medieval monastic state in Teutonic Prussia). They are complemented by various research projects undertaken in Mazovia, Podlachia and abroad. In-office studies, supported by a rich collection of archival artefacts stored at the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (e.g. from Chojnice, Ciechanów, Frombork, Gdańsk, Lębork, Rawa Mazowiecka, Sąsiadka, Wiślica), go far beyond the indicated geographic scope.

The main research topics of the Department’s employees focus on:
• the formation and disappearance of early medieval tribal structures in Prussia, Yotvingian lands and Pomerania, the material and spiritual culture of those communities inhabiting these lands and their relations with the inhabitants of neighbouring areas;
• comprehensive studies of various categories of finds representative of medieval towns and castle complexes (including ceramics, glass, wooden and leather finds);
• archaeological and architectural research;
• the use of isotope analyses in archaeology to determine the chronology of finds (radiocarbon dating), diet (stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur), origin and migration (stable isotopes of strontium and oxygen), as well as DNA analyses;
• archival archaeology and reconstruction of collections lost and dispersed as a result of World War II, from former museum collections from Polish lands (within the borders of the Second and Third Republic of Poland) and related to Poland.

In carrying out their research, the staff of the department cooperate with representatives of other scientific and museum centres in Poland, as well as with researchers from Belarus, Czechia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.

The sites excavated by the staff of the department:

• Błonie, Masovian voivodeship, medieval chartered town (town plots; K. Blusiewicz)

• Ciepłe, Pomeranian voivodeship, early medieval cemetery (S. Wadyl)

• Czaszkowo (former Lake Nidajno), Warmian and Mazurian voivodeship, sacrificial place from late antiquity (in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science; T. Nowakiewicz)

• Człuchów, Pomeranian voivodeship, Teutonic and gubernator’s castle (M. Starski, K. Blusiewicz)

• Debrzno, Pomeranian voivodeship, medieval town and defensive walls (M. Miścicki, M. Truszkowski)

• Obłęże, Pomeranian voivodeship, early medieval barrow cemetery and stronghold (in cooperation with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; S. Wadyl)

• Pasym, Warmian and Mazurian voivodeship, early medieval stronghold (S. Wadyl)

• Puck, Pomeranian voivodeship, medieval chartered town (town plots, church graveyard; M. Starski, K. Blusiewicz)

• Skarszewy, Pomeranian voivodeship, medieval chartered town (town plots, fortifications; M. Starski, K. Blusiewicz)

• Szczeberka (vicinity), Podlachia voivodeship, a complex of early medieval cemeteries on the Szczeberka River (in cooperation with the Terra Desolata Foundation; T. Nowakiewicz)

• Shestovitsa, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, early medieval barrow cemetery (in cooperation with the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv National Pedagogical University; D. Błaszczyk, V. Skorokhod)

grants carried out by department staff (projects in which staff performed leading functions)

Dariusz Błaszczyk PhD

• Locals or foreigners? Burials in chamber graves in Poland in the early Middle Ages (National Science Centre Fuga 2 grant), grant completed.

Maciej Miścicki MA

• Barrels as a source for research on the provenance of wooden products from the territory of the state of the Teutonic Order. Production techniques – specialized analyzes – long-distance trade (National Science Centre Preludium 14 grant), grant in progress.

Tomasz Nowakiewicz habilitated doctor

• Ostbalticum project (co-coordinator of the framework project of the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport), project in progress;

• Conservation, compile, analysis and publication of finds from water deposits from Nidajno and former Herrn-See lakes (the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport/the National Institute of Cultural Heritage grant), grant completed;

• Non-invasive prospection of the former cult place in Lake Nidajno in Masuria: extent, threats, paleoecological background (the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport/the National Institute of Cultural Heritage grant), grant completed.

Michał Starski PhD

• Puck’s material culture in the late Middle Ages. Archaeological portrait of a small town on the southern Baltic coast (National Science Centre Sonata 5 grant), grant completed;

• The town’s plot of Długi Targ – Powroźnicza – Ogarna Streets in Gdańsk. Compile and publication of the results of archaeological research (the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport/the National Institute of Cultural Heritage grant), grant in progress.

Sławomir Wadyl PhD

• Prussian lands in the early Middle Ages. Shaping a new settlement-territorial and social structure in the light of archaeological sources (National Science Centre Fuga 4 grant), grant completed;
• The place that created the power. A stronghold from the early Middle Ages in Pasym in the Masurian Lake District (the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport/the National Institute of Cultural Heritage grant), grant in progress.

Addres: 00-927 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna, pok. 0.26, 0.28, 0.29
tel. 22-55-22-837 i 844

Chair:
dr Anna Gręzak

Faculty:
dr hab. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, prof. ucz.
dr hab. Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka
dr hab. Aldona Mueller-Bieniek
dr Rafał Fetner
dr Elżbieta Jaskulska

Cooperation:
dr hab. Wiesław Więckowski (Department of Archaeology of the Americas)

PhD candidates:
mgr Monika Dzierlińska
mgr Kamil Niemczak
mgr Joanna Szymczak
mgr Aleksandra Grzegorska
mgr Adam Budziszewski

Direction: 00-927 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna
Office 3.23, tel. 22 55 22 823

Chair:
dr hab. Miłosz Giersz

Faculty:
dr hab. Wiesław Więckowski
dr hab. Janusz Wołoszyn
dr Jan Szymański

PhD Candidates:
Roberto Pimentel Nita
Julia Chyla

About the Department:
The Department conducts research and organizes teaching activities in the field of the archeology of the Americas, in particular of the Andean area, Central America, iconography of pre-Columbian cultures, rock art, as well as funeral and anthropological archeology.

Field research:
Castillo de Huarmey, Peru – kier. Miłosz Giersz
Toro Muerto, Peru – kier. Janusz Wołoszyn
San Isidro, Salwador – kier. Jan Szymański

Grants:
– ongoing
NCN 2019/35/D/HS3/00219 “Na kresach Mezoameryki: Badania archeologiczne stanowiska San Isidro w Salwadorze” – kier. Jan Szymański

NCN 2019/32/T/HS3/00101 „Metody cyfrowe w archeologii. Studium doliny Huarmey” – kier. Julia Chyla

NCN 2018/31/B/HS3/01655 „Płeć, przestrzeń i czas w prekolumbijskiej świątyni zmarłych” – kier. Miłosz Giersz

NCN 2016/23/B/HS3/01882 „Toro Muerto – wieloaspektowa analiza unikatowego południowoamerykańskiego kompleksu sztuki naskalnej” – kier. Janusz Wołoszyn

– finalized
NCN 2018/02/X/HS3/00850 “Analiza pochówku przedstawiciela diaspory chińskiej na st. Castillo de Huarmey, Peru” – kier. Wiesław Więckowski

NCN 2015/19/N/HS3/00880 „Tożsamość w niciach ukryta? Dokumentacja i analiza technologiczno-ikonograficzna prekolumbijskich tkanin z Castillo de Huarmey” – kier. Aleksandra Laszczka

 

 

 

 

Address: 00-927 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Szkoła Główna, tel. 55 22 814 pok. 3.14 e-mail: egea@uw.edu.pl

Chair:
dr hab. Agata Ulanowska

Staff:
dr Stephanie Aulsebrook
dr hab. Aleksander Dzbyński
prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Lewartowski
dr Marta Żuchowska

Doctoral Students:
mgr Kinga Bigoraj
mgr Anna Filipek
mgr Katarzyna Żebrowska

About the Department:
The research of the Department involves the archaeology of Bronze Age Greece, in its broadest sense, and textile archaeology, specifically textile production in Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean and Sicily, as well as cognitive and experimental archaeology.

The Department’s programme of studies reflect the research interests of its staff and doctoral students. We offer courses, seminars and specialised lecture series on Greek, textile and cognitive archaeology in Polish and English. One of our most innovative contributions to the teaching of the WA UW is a course in textile archaeology with elements of hands-on teaching. The Department occasionally organises student trips to Crete and the Mainland that offer participants an introduction to the archaeology of Greece via direct contact with archaeological sites and landscapes, as well as with Greek modern history, traditions and customs.

Conferences and publications: The Department organises a series of international Aegean conferences titled ‘Sympozjum Egejskie’, targeted at early career researchers. Since 2017, it has been publishing the peer-reviewed series ‘Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology‘  (please contact us for copies of the previous volumes).

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Announcements:

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Sympozjum Egejskie: 9th Conference in Aegean Archaeology, which will take place in Warsaw and online on June 19th and 20th 2023!

Please send your abstracts (in English, max. 250 words), your personal details (title, full name, affiliation, email address) and a short personal biography (max. 100 words including ORCID number and/or research webpage links) to egea@uw.edu.pl by March 20th 2023.

For more information please follow this link:

Sympozjum Egejskie 9: Call for Papers

 

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Grants:
Stephanie Aulsebrook
2019 – 2022 Forging Society at Late Bronze Age Mycenae: the Relationships between People and Metals.
Research project at the Faculty of Archaeology UW, financed by the programme SONATA 14 of the National Science Centre in Poland (UMO-2018/31/D/HS3/02231, 736,310 PLN)

Agata Ulanowska
2020 – 2024 EuroWeb. Europe through Textiles. Network for the integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities. COST Action CA 19131 (AGA-CA19131-1-13422; 2020/21: 55 000 EUR; 2021/22: 171 600 EUR; 2022/23: 197 500 EUR).

Educational project 2021 – 2022: ‘Artefacts, Creativity, Technology, and Skills from Prehistory to the Classical Period in Greece. Communities of Learning in the Past and in Higher Education Today, ACTS’, project alliance 4EU+ and programme Erasmus Plus ref. no. 612621.

2018 – 2022 Textiles and Seals. Relations between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece
Research project at the Institute of Archaeology UW, financed by the programme SONATA 13 of the National Science Centre in Poland (UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145, 637 052 PLN).

2015 – 2017 Textile Production in Bronze Age Greece – Comparative Studies of the Aegean Weaving Techniques
Post-doctoral internship of The National Science Centre in Poland to the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre for Research on Ancient Technologies in Łódź (UMO-2015/16/S/HS3/00085, 300 000 PLN).

Katarzyna Żebrowska
2017-2019 “Sicilian Textile Tools from the Bronze Age: Examination of Finds and Comparative Studies on Their Functionality”
Research project (ref. nr 2016/21/N/HS3/02926) financed by PRELUDIUM 11 program of the National Science Centre, Poland.

Research in Greece – The Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens

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Former employees:

Dr Małgorzata Siennicka, now University of Göttingen,  ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1974-809X