Staff

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:
– Academia

 

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:
Friday 1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m., 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:
Sabbatical in the academic year 2025/26.
During the summer semester of 2025, remote office hours will be held by appointment on the following dates: July 15–18, and August 18 – September 30. Please note that internet access will be limited in August and September due to fieldwork.

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

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

Dr. Agnieszka Ryś-Jarmużek
Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia

e-mail:
agnieszka.rys@uw.edu.pl

telephone:
+48 (22) 55 22 808

duty hours:
Monday: 12:00–14:00, room 3.08
Wednesday: 9:30–11:30, room 3.08

research interests:
– settlement and household economics during the 2nd and 1st millenium BC in Egypt and Sudan
– socio-economic aspects of production and crafts in ancient Egypt
– ground stone tool technology
– documentation and analysis of artefacts from domestic contexts

bibliography:
Academia.edu
Researchgate.net

 

Dr. Marta Kacznowicz
Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia

e-mail:
m.kaczanowicz@uw.edu.pl

telephone:
+48 22 55 22 825

office hours:
Tuesday 11–1 p.m., room 3.25
Thursday 11–1 p.m., room 3.25

research interests:
– The archaeology of Egypt in the first millennium BCE
– The reuse of monuments and objects in the past
– The position of women in ancient Egypt
– Plant cultivation in ancient Egypt
– The history of Egyptology, with a focus on women’s contribution

bibliography:
Marta Kaczanowicz.pdf

dr William Graham Claytor VI
Chair of Epigraphy and Papyrology

e-mail:
w.claytor-vi@uw.edu.pl

research interests:
– papyrology
– Greco-Roman Egypt

bibliography:
William Graham Claytor VI

 

ma Łukasz Jarmużek
Katedra Archeologii Egiptu i Nubii

e-mail
l.jarmuzek@uw.edu.pl

phone:
+48 22 55 22 825