Staff

dr hab. Katarzyna Pyżewicz
The Head of Archaeology (Studies in English)
Stone Age Department
Laboratorium Archeologicznych Analiz Specjalistycznych

e-mail:
k.pyzewicz@uw.edu.pl

office hours:
Tuesday 01.00 p.m. – 02.30 p.m, room 0.30
Thursday 11.30 a.m. – 01.00 p.m., room 0.30

research interests:
– Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology
– use-wear analysis
– lithic studies
– experimental archaeology

bibliography:
ResearchGate
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Natalia Gryczewska, MA
Stone Age Department

e-mail:
n.gryczewska@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 842

duty hours:
Wednesday 1.15 p.m.–2.45 p.m., room 2.15
Thursday 1.15 p.m.–2.45 p.m., room 2.15

research interests:
– palaeolithic archaeology
– human evolution
– cave archaeology
– biomarker analyses in cave sediments

bibliography:
Kot, M., Gryczewska, N., Berto, C., Wojenka, M., Szeliga, M., Jaskulska, E., Fetner, R., Krajcarz, M., Wertz, K., Zarzecka-Szubińska, K., Krajcarz, M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Jakubczak, M. (2019). Thirteen cave sites: Settlement patterns in Sąspów Valley, Polish Jura. Antiquity, 93(371), E30. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.155

Gryczewska, N. (2019), Pierwsi Homo sapiens na Dalekim Wschodzie- zarys problematyki. Studia i Materiały Archeologiczne 16, 52-72.

Gryczewska, N., Kot, M., Wojenka, M., (2019). Napisy na ścianach jaskini Złodziejskiej w Ojcowie. Przyczynek do studiów nad historią ruchu turystycznego w okolicach Ojcowa. Prądnik. Prace i Materiały Muzeum im. Prof. Wł. Szafera 29, 117-134.

Gryczewska, N., Kot, M., Szymczak, K., (2020) Dziurawiec Malesowy- zapomniane stanowisko z Doliny Sąspowskiej. Prądnik. Prace i Materiały Muzeum im. Prof. Wł. Szafera. 30, 291-298.

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

Wojenka M., Jaskulska E., Popovic D., Baca M., Frog, Fetner R., Wertz K., Rataj K., Gryczewska N., Kosiński T., Kot M., (2021) The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland. Prähistorische Zeitschrift. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-0008

Kot M., Gryczewska N. 2021 Found in a box: unknown bifacial leafpoint from the Koziarnia cave. The Študijné zvesti AÚ SAV Journal. FOSSIL DIRECTEUR Multiple Perspectives of Lithic Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, Supplementum 2, Študijné zvesti Archeologického ústavu SAV – Supplementum 2, 19 – 30; doi: 10.31577/szausav.2021.suppl.2.2

Kot M., Krajcarz M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Gryczewska N., Wojenka M., Pyżewicz K., Sinet-Mathiot V., Diakowski M., Fedorowicz S., Gąsiorowski M., Marciszak A., Mackiewicz P., Lipecki G. 2021 Chronostratigraphy of Jerzmanowician. New data from Koziarnia Cave, Poland. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 103014 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103014

Kot M., Gryczewska N., Biard M. 2021 When the leafpoints are missing: On possibilities of Jerzmanowician assemblages identification based on the small debitage alone. Lithic Technology 46(2): 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2021.1880735

Kot M., Gryczewska N., Szymanek M., Moskal del-Hoyo M., Szeliga M., Berto C., Wojenka M., Krajcarz M., Krajcarz M.T. Wertz K., Fedorowicz S., Jaskulska E., Pilcicka-Ciura H. 2022 Bramka Rockshelter: An Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura. Quaternary International 610, 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.08.015

Gryczewska N., Szeliga M., Wojenka M., Szymczak K. , Kot M. (2021) Jeszcze raz o badaniach archeologicznych w Dziurawcu Malesowym. Prądnik. Prace i Materiały Muzeum im. Prof. Wł. Szafera 31, 65-70.

Jakubczak M., Budziszewski J., Leloch M., Gryczewska N., Szeliga M., Kot M. (2022). Mining field “Dąbrówka-I”. Neolithic Jurassic flint mine with vestigially preserved mine relief: Neolithic Jurassic flint mine with vestigially preserved mine relief. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 74(1), 345–372. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.2866

Kot M., Berto C., Krajcarz M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Gryczewska N., Szymanek M., Marciszak A., Stefaniak K., Zarzecka-Szubińska K., Lipecki G., Wertz K., Madeyska T. (2022) Frontiers of the Lower Palaeolithic expansion in Europe: Tunel Wielki Cave (Poland), Scientific Reports 12, 16355. 10.1038/s41598-022-20582-0

Gryczewska N., Kot M., Berto C., Brancaleoni G., Krajcarz M. T., Cyrek K., Sudoł-Procyk M., Wojenka M., Wilczyński J., Chmielewska M., Sulwiński M., Suska-Malawska M. (2023). Tracing ephemeral human occupation through archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and molecular proxies at Łabajowa Cave. Antiquity, 97(396), e31. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.147

Kot M., Tyszkiewicz J., Gryczewska N. (2024) Can we read stones? Quantifying the information loss in flintknapping, Journal of Archaeological Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105905

Kot M.,Kogai S., Pavlenok G., Gryczewska N., Brancaleoni G., Krajcarz M.T., Moska P., et al. “New Data for Asymmetric Core Reduction in Western Tian Shan Piedmonts: The Ertash Sai 2 Open-Air Site.” Lithic Technology, (2024), 1–22. doi:10.1080/01977261.2024.2319429.

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Dr. Katarzyna Żebrowska
Department of Aegean and Textile Archaeology

e-mail:
kzebrowska@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 814

research interests:
– Archaeology of prehistoric Sicily and the Aegean region
– Italo-Aegean contacts
– funerary architecture, especially in relation to landscape
– textile archaeology, in particular the functionality of textile tools

research projects:

“Sicilian Textile Tools from the Bronze Age: Examination of Finds and Comparative Studies on Their Functionality”, 2017 – 2019, PRELUDIUM 11 ( 2016/21/N/HS3/02926) of the Polish National Science Centre, primary investigator.

bibliography:
peer-reviewed articles and chapters in monographs:

Żebrowska, K. (2023) The Early Bronze Age Funerary Landscape of Calicantone (Sicily). Internal Planning and Visual Features. In: D. Panagiotopoulos, P.M. Militello eds, Modelling Archaeological Landscapes: Bridging Past and Present in two Mediterranean Islands, Heidelberg, 77-96.

Żebrowska, K. (2021) Weaving in Early Bronze Age Sicily: Testing and Comparing the Functionality of Potential Weaving Tools. In: G. Albertazzi, G. Muti, A. Saggio eds, Islands in Dialogue (Islandia). Proceedings of the First Conference in the Prehistory and Protohistory of the Mediterranean Islands, Rome, 323-335.

Nosch, M-L., Ulanowska, A., Żebrowska, K., Bigoraj, K., Gręzak A. (2021) Sheep – ‘a Factory without Waste’. Comparative, Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Views on Sheep in the Aegean Bronze Age. In: R. Laffineur, T.G. Palaima eds, ZOIA. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age, Aegaeum 45, Leuven & Liège, 35-49.

Żebrowska, K. (2020) Textiles and Seals: The use of seals with the sheep motif in Bronze Age Greece. In: M. Bustamante-Álvarez, E.H. Sánchez López, J. Jiménez Ávila eds, PURPUREAE VESTES VII. Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity. Redefining Ancient Textile Handcraft. Structures, Tools and Production Processes, Proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Granada, Spain 2-4 October 2019), Granada, 425-430.

Żebrowska, K. (2020) The application of use-wear analysis to the study of function of prehistoric Sicilian textile tools. In: J.L. Fernández-Marchena, L. Asryan, A. Pedergnana, A. Ollé eds, Not only use. Application of functional methods for a better comprehension of operative chains, Quaternary International Special Issue, Quaternary International 659-570, 128-134.

Żebrowska, K. (2020) The organization of Middle Bronze Age Aeolian textile production in the light of recent experiments. In: M. Nordez, K. Peche-Quilichini, M. Roscio eds,  Le Bulletin de l’Aprab 18, 153-157.

Żebrowska, K. (2019) La filatura a Monte Cittadella (futura Morgantina) nella fase finale della preistoria siciliana, AD REM 1-2, 5-9.

Żebrowska, K. (2018) Aeolian Textile Tools from the Bronze Age – Testing the Functionality of Potential Heavy Spindle-Whorls. In: I. Cáceres, I. Expósito, M. Fontanals, M. Gema Chacón, J.M. Vergès eds, Experimental Archaeology: From Research to Society. Proceedings of the Vth International Congress of Experimental Archaeology, Tarragona, 25-27 October 2017, El Butlletí Arqueològic V 40, Tarragona, 105-111.

Żebrowska, K. (2018) The Early and Middle Bronze Age Textile Tools from the Aeolian Islands (Italy). In: A. Ulanowska, M. Siennicka, M. Grupa eds, Dynamics and Organisation of Textile Production in Past Societies in Europe and the Mediterranean, Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae XXXI, Łódź, 12-23.

Militello, P.M., Żebrowska, K. (2017) The tholos tombs in Sicily: A landscape approach. In: M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos, A. Vlachopoulos eds, HESPEROS. The Aegean Seen from the West, Proceedings of the 16th International Aegean Conference, University of Ioannina, Department of History and Archaeology, Unit of Archaeology and Art History, 18-21 May 2016, AEGAEUM 41, Leuven & Liège, 139-146.

Żebrowska, K. (2016) Thapsos Tombs Revisited: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Funerary Landscape of Magnisi Peninsula (With Special Concern on Rock-Cut Tholoi). In: M. Figuera, K. Żebrowska eds, International Course in Archaeology “Papers in Mediterranean Archaeology”, Syndesmoi 5, Catania & Warsaw, 71-86.

scientific editing of peer-reviewed monographs:

Aulsebrook, S., Żebrowska, K., Ulanowska, A. eds (2024) Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology 4 (Warsaw Studies in Archaeology 5), Turnhout, Warsaw. Brepols & the Faculty of Archaeology UW.

Aulsebrook, S., Żebrowska, K., Ulanowska, A., Lewartowski, K. eds (2022) Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology 3 (Warsaw Studies in Archaeology 3), Turnhout, Warsaw. Brepols & the Faculty of Archaeology UW.

Żebrowska, K., Ulanowska, A., Lewartowski, K. eds (2019), Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology 2, Warsaw. University of Warsaw Press.

Żebrowska, K., Ulanowska, A., Lewartowski, K. eds (2017), Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology 1, Warsaw. Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw.

Figuera, M., Żebrowska, K. eds (2016), International Course in Archaeology “Papers in Mediterranean Archaeology”, Syndesmoi 5 (Quaderni del corso internazionalizzato in Archeologia: Catania, Konya, Varsavia), Catania & Warsaw. Università degli Studi di Catania.

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– ORCID

Dr. Sylviane Déderix
Department of Aegean and Textile Archaeology
Stanisław Ulam programme grantee, NAWA (2024-2026).

 Email:
sylviane.dederix@gmail.com

 Research interests:
– Aegean archaeology
– Burial practices
– Landscape archaeology
– Geomatics
– Metallurgical practices

Research project:
Mining districts in context. A multi-scalar and diachronic approach to Aegean metallurgical practices

Archaeological field projects:
– Since 2020: P.I. of the project “Minoan burial practices at Malia” (École française d’Athènes): https://www.efa.gr/section-categorie/pratiques-funeraires-a-malia-s-dederix/
– Since 2018: Director of the prehistoric team of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (Belgian School at Athens; dir. R. Docter): https://www.thorikos.be/
– Since 2008: Member of the Sissi Archaeological Research Project (Belgian School at Athens; dir. J. Driessen): https://sarpedon.be/

Selected publications:
Déderix S., Ralli P. & Bastide M. (eds), forthcoming. Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece (proceedings of the first workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece (March 8, 2023), to be published in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique).

Déderix S., 2023. Placing Tholos A at Apesokari: an analysis of visibility, intervisibility and invisibility, in: Flouda G., An Archaeological Palimpsest in Minoan Crete. Tholos Tomb A and Habitation at Apesokari (Prehistory Monographs 70), Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, p. 21-30.

Schmitt A. & Déderix S., 2021. Too many secondary burials in Minoan Crete?, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64, article 101354 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101354].

Déderix S., Papadimitriou N., Balitsari A., Cantoro G., Efstathiou A., Manataki M., Nazou M., Sarris A. & Laffineur R., 2021. Prehistoric Thorikos: preliminary report of the 2018 and 2019 fieldwork campaigns, in: Docter R.F. & Webster M. (eds), Thorikos: Reports and Studies 12, Louvain, Paris & Bristol: Peeters, p. 35-58

Déderix S., 2019. Patterns of visibility, intervisibility and invisibility at Bronze Age Apesokari (Crete), Open Archaeology 5, p. 187-203 [https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0014].

Dungan K., White D., Déderix S., Mills B. & Safi K., 2018. A total viewshed approach to local visibility in the Chaco World, Antiquity 92(364), p. 905-921 [https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.135].

Schmitt A., Déderix S. & Crevecoeur I. (eds), 2018. Gathered in Death. Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organisation (Aegis 14), Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

Driessen J., Anastasiadou M., Caloi I., Claeys T., Déderix S., Devolder M., Jusseret S., Langohr C., Letesson Q., Mathioudaki I., Mouthuy O. & Schmitt A., 2018. Excavations at Sissi, IV. Preliminary Report on the 2015-2016 Campaigns (Aegis 13), Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

Déderix S., 2017. Communication networks, interactions and social negotiation in Prepalatial South-Central Crete, American Journal of Archaeology 121.1, p. 5-37 [https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.121.1.0005].

Déderix S., 2016. Traveling across archaeological landscapes: the contribution of hierarchical communication networks, in: Campana S., Scopigno R., Carpentiero G. & Cirillo M. (eds), CAA2015. Keep the Revolution Going. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 555-565.

Déderix S., 2015. A matter of scale. Assessing the visibility of circular tombs in the landscape of Bronze Age Crete, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4, p. 525-534 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.021].

 

Dr. Michał Grabowski
Department for Underwater Archaeology

e-mail:
mk.grabowski4@uw.edu.pl

telephone:
+48 22 55 22 800 (secretariat)

research interests:
– maritime archaeology
– Ship- and boatbuilding in Northern Europe
– inland navigation
– 3d documentation of archaeological finds

bibliography:
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dr hab.  Kyrylo Myzgin
Katedra Numizmatyki i Muzealnictwa
Pracownia Archeologii Europy Wschodniej

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 827

e-mail:
k.myzgin@uw.edu.pl

duty hours:
Monday 14.00–17.00, room 3.27 lub online

research interests:
– ancient numismatics
– archeology of the late Roman period….

bibliography:
selected articles

Dr. Sarah Finlayson 
Department of Aegean and Textile Archaeology
Stanisław Ulam programme grantee, NAWA (2024-2025).

Phone number:
+48 22 55 22 814

Research interests:
– Aegean archaeology
– Aegean scripts
– seals and sealing practices
– experimental archaeology

Research project:
Inscribed and impressed: exploring clay sealings from the Bronze Age Aegean as mini-documents in diachronic administrative systems.

dr hab. Agata Ulanowska, prof. ucz.
Department of Aegean and Textile Archaeology
Laboratorium Archeologicznych Analiz Specjalistycznych

e-mail:
a.ulanowska@uw.edu.pl

office hours:
Thursdays: 13.15–14.15, room 3.14 and online, on previous request, via Zoom or Google Meet.

research interests:
– Bronze Age Aegean
– textile production and technology
– experimental and experience archaeology
– Aegean seals and sealing practices

bibliography:
Publications until 2023

Research projects:

	Ancient Skopelos Survey (ASkoS), 2024-2028, AskoS aims to fill a gap in knowledge and improve our understanding of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE Northern Sporades by focusing on one of the largest but insufficiently explored islands – Skopelos. The ASkoS project is a collaborative effort (synergasia) with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and, under the auspices and research permit of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA), the Universities of Warsaw, the Charles University in Prague, and Heidelberg.
	Exploring Textile Imprints on Clay from the 3rd and the 2nd Millennia BCE: Advancing Cutting-Edge Research and Documentation Protocols with Case Studies of Diverse Tex-tile Consumption Contexts (ExplorTIC), 2024-2027,  SONATA BIS 13 of the National Science Centre in Poland (UMO-2023/50/E/HS3/00094, awarded funding: 1 935 400 PLN)
	TEXTile digitisAtIon tooLs and mEthodS for cultural heritage (TEXTaiLES),  2024-2027, HORIZON REA,  HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01 (ID 01101158328, awarded funding [total]: 3 626 617 EUR).
	EuroWeb. Europe Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities, 2020-2024, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, COST Action (CA 19131,  awarded funding: 645 956 EUR).
	Textiles and Seals. Relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece, 2018–2021, SONATA 13 of the National Science Centre in Poland to the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (UMO-2017/26/D/HS3/00145, awarded funding: 637 052 PLN).
	Produkcja włókiennicza w Grecji epoki brązu – badania porównawcze egejskich technik tkackich, 2015–2017, FUGA 4, 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, awarded funding: 300 000 PLN).

Educational project:

‘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 funded by the 4EU+ Alliance and the Erasmus Plus Programme, ref. no. 612621

Dr. Piotr Makowski
Katedra Archeologii Orientu

e-mail:
pr.makowski@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 (22) 55 22 809

duty hours:
Thursday 11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m., room 3.09
Friday 11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m., room 3.09

research interests:
– archaeology of the Byzantine and Islamic Near East
– land use and Settlement Patterns of Syro-Palestine during the Byzantine and
Islamic periods
– the fate of Christian communities of Syro-Palestine during the Byzantine-
Islamic transition
– identity and material culture of the Early Islamic world
– production and distribution of handmade wares in the Islamic Near East

bibliography:
Academia.edu