Staff

Monika Dunajko-Ceglińska, MA
Chair of Classical Archaeology

duty hours:
Tuesday 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., room 3.20
Wednesday 11.30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., room 3.20

research interests:
– classical archaeology
– Ancient Greek art
– history of Classical Archaeology

bibliography:
researchgate.net

PhD Adam Cieśliński, professor of the University of Warsaw

e-mail:
adamcieslinski@uw.edu.pl

duty hours:
Due to renovation work in room 305, via the Google Meet platform (by prior arrangement via email).

research interests:
– archeology of the Roman and Migration periods
– barbarians and Romans
– Wielbark culture
– Archive’s archeology
– GIS in archeology

bibliography:
Academia.edu

Head of the Department of Archaeology of Barbaricum and the Roman Provinces. Studied at Uniwersytet Warszawski, J.-W. Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, and Philipps Universität in Marburg. PhD degree awarded in 2006 at Uniwersytet Warszawski; habilitation completed in 2016 on the basis of the scholarly achievement entitled Communities of the southern Baltic coast during the Roman Iron Age in the light of an analysis of selected sepulchral sites (Społeczności południowych pobrzeży Bałtyku w okresie wpływów rzymskich w świetle analizy wybranych stanowisk sepulkralnych). Research interests include archival archaeology, funerary practices, and interregional connections.

Member of the board of the International Sachsensymposion, corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, the Kommission zur Erforschung von Sammlungen Archäologischer Funde und Unterlagen aus dem nordöstlichen Mitteleuropa, and the board of the Monumenta Archaeologica Barbarica Foundation. Participates in the editorial teams of the series Monumenta Archaeologica Barbarica and Światowit Supplement Series B: Barbaricum.

Between 2000 and 2019, conducted research on the Wielbark culture barrow cemetery at Nowy Łowicz in the Drawsko military training area, in cooperation with Dr Andrzej Kasprzak of the Muzeum w Koszalinie. Since 2021, together with Dr Marcin Woźniak from the Muzeum Starożytnego Hutnictwa Mazowieckiego im. Stefana Woydy in Pruszków, has been co-directing the Terra Ferrifera project, aimed at interdisciplinary research into ancient iron production in Mazovia and Central Europe. Research interests focus on the Roman Iron Age and the Migration Period in the zone stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, as well as archival archaeology.

 

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

 e-mail:
g.kus2@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
 +48 22 55 22 805 (806)

duty hours:
on-line duty by appointment by e-mail

 research interests:
– archeology of the Roman period
– non-invasive archaeology
– landscape archaeology

 bibliography:
Academia.edu  

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

Dr. Kinga Winnicka
Department of Aegean and Textile Archaeology

e-mail:
k.winnicka4@uw.edu.pl

phone:
+48 22 55 22 814

office hours:
Thursdays – 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Room 3.14

scientific interests:
– Neolithic and Bronze Age, particularly the transition between the periods
– archaeometry, mainly imaging methods (microscopy, SEM, microtomography)
– traceology – studies of micro-traces and organic or mineral residues on artefacts
– cross-craft interactions
– funerary archaeology

current scientific projects:

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 Textile Consumption Contexts (ExplorTIC), 2024-2027, SONATA BIS 13 of the National Science Centre in Poland, led by prof. dr hab. A. Ulanowska, 2023/50/E/HS3/00094 (postdoc)

main research projects (completed):

Significance of personal objects made of bone materials in the Epi-Corded Ware cultures of the Early Bronze Age based on selected imaging and analytical methods, 2018–2021, PRELUDIUM 13 of the National Science Centre in Poland, 2017/25/HS3/02097

Early Bronze Age objects of personal use made of bone: their materiality and meaning (2018–2020), stay at the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, University of Sheffield, UK, 2019–2020, ETIUDA 6 of the National Science Centre in Poland, 2018/28/T/HS3/00354

Microanalyses of artefacts made from hard animal raw materials: manufacture, use and meaning of dress elements at the turn of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, stay at the Laboratory for Artefact Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, Mobility Plus (4th edition) of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland, 1276/MOB/IV/2015/0

Manufacture, use and symbolic meaning of the Mierzanowice culture bone personal adornments in the light of technological and microscopic data, 2013–2015, Diamond Grant (2nd edition) of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland, 0113/DIA/2013/42

online:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7152-0455
https://www.ResearchGate.net/profile/Kinga_Winnicka
https://uw.Academia.edu/KingaWinnicka
https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/KMWinnicka

Dr. Aleksandra Grzegorska
Department of Bioarchaeology

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

duty hours:
Monday 11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m., room 0.26

research interests:
– bioarchaeology
– paleopathology
– infectious diseases
– paleoparasitology
– hygiene

Dr. Nazarij Buławka

Department of Oriental Archaeology
Non-Invasive and Digital Archeology Laboratory

e-mail:
nazar.bulawka@uw.edu.pl

research interests:
– machine and deep learning
– remote sensing
– landscape archaeology
– studies on ancient irrigation
– archeaology of the Near East, Iran and Central Asia
– Iron Age in Central Asia (Yaz periods)

 

Graduate of the Department of Archaeology of the UW. In 2020 he received his doctoral degree on the basis of his dissertation entitled. “The settlement of Yaz culture in the oases of Tedjen and Murghab in Turkmenistan”

From 2022 to 2024, he carried out postdoctoral project at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Tarragona, Spain, dedicated to the study of ancient irrigation networks using remote sensing and machine learning – UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using advanced remote sensing methods, (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705).

 

bibliografia:
ResearchGate
ORCID

 

selected publications:
Buławka, Nazarij, Hector A. Orengo, i Iban Berganzo-Besga. „Deep Learning-Based Detection of Qanat Underground Water Distribution Systems Using HEXAGON Spy Satellite Imagery”. Journal of Archaeological Science 171 (2024): 106053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106053.

Buławka, Nazarij, i Hector A. Orengo. „Application of multi-temporal and multisource satellite imagery in the study of irrigated landscapes in arid climates”. Remote Sensing 16, nr 11 (2024): 1997. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111997.

Buławka, Nazarij. „Yaz I-III settlement pattern in Serakhs Oasis, southern Turkmenistan”. Iran 55, nr 2 (3 lipiec 2017): 143–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2017.1355526.

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

Representative for Equality

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

office hours:
Tuesday 01.00 p.m. – 02.30 p.m, room 0.30
Wednesday 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
Academia.edu

Dr. Natalia Gryczewska
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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