Staff

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:
Mondays: 14.00–15.00, 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:

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	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

Agnieszka Ryś-Jarmużek, MA
Department of Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia

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

telephone:
+48 (22) 55 22 808

duty hours:
Tuesday 10-11:30 a.m., 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 12–1 p.m., room 3.25
Wednesday 12–1 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

Karolina Bugajska, PhD
Katedra Archeologii Epoki Kamienia

e-mail:
karolinabugajska@uw.edu.pl

research interests:
– Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Para-Neolithic
– burial rites in the Stone Age
– the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Art
– Bioarcheology
– Cultural anthropology

bibliography:

Gumiński W., Bugajska K., 2023, Painted wood, notch on bone – ornamentation or marking? A case of two neighbouring forager sites, Dudka and Szczepanki, Masuria, NE-Poland, (in) J.M. Grünberg, E. Brinch Petersen, B. Gramsch, T. Płonka, H. Meller (eds.) Mesolithic Art – Abstraction, Decoration, Messages, Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, Band 26/I, Halle (Saale), 333-359.

Bugajska K., 2023, Purified by fire. Cremation burials in the Stone Age hunter-gatherer cemetery at Dudka, Masuria, northeast Poland, Documenta Praehistorica vol.50 (2023), 110-135, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.50.10

Bugajska K., 2021, Cremation Burials of the Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers on the European Plain, Światowit LIX (2020), 15-45.

Bugajska K., 2021, Pit or grave? ‘Emptied’ graves from the cemetery at Dudka, Masuria, north-eastern Poland, (in:) D. Borić, D. Antonović, B. Mihailović (eds.), Foraging Assemblages, Volume 2, Belgrade & New York (Serbian Archaeological Society, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University), 648-655.

Wacnik A., Gumiński W., Cywa K., Bugajska K., 2020, Forests and foragers: exploitation of wood resources by Mesolithic and para‑Neolithic societies in north‑eastern Poland, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 29, 2020: 717-736, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00778-y

Bugajska K., Gumiński W., 2016, How many steps to heaven?  Loose human bones and secondary burials at Dudka and Szczepanki, (in:) Grünberg J., Gramsch B., Larsson L., Orschiedt J., Meller H. (eds), Mesolithic burials – Rites, symbols and social organization of early postglacial communities. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 13/II, 2016, Halle (Saale), 339-455.

Gumiński W., Bugajska K., 2016, Exception as a rule. Unusual Mesolithic cemetery and other graves at Dudka and Szczepanki, Masuria, NE-Poland, (in:) J.M. Grünberg, B. Gramsch, L. Larsson, J. Orschied, H. Meller (eds.), Mesolithic burials – Rites, symbols and social organisation of early postglacial communities, Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, Band 13/II, Halle (Saale): 465-510.

Bugajska K., 2015, In the ground or in the basket? Burial wrappings from the Stone Age hunters’ cemetery at Dudka, Masuria, NE-Poland. Novensia 26, 10–23.

Bugajska K., 2015, Obrządek pogrzebowy łowców-zbieraczy epoki kamienia w południowej Skandynawii i na Niżu Środkowoeuropejskim, Przegląd Archeologiczny 62 (2014), 5-69.

Howcroft R., Bugajska K., Gumiński W., Kowalewska-Marszałek H., Szczepanek A., Włodarczak P., Eriksson G., 2013, Breastfeeding and weaning practices during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Poland, (in:) R. Howcroft, Weaned Upon a Time. Studies of the Infant Diet in Prehistory, Thesis and Papers in Scientific Archaeology 14, Stockholm (Stockholm University): 1-27.

Bugajska K., 2011, Ozdoby z grobów łowców (mezolit, paraneolit) – Mazury w kręgu wschodnim czy zachodnim (w:) Stankiewicz U., Wawrusiewicz A. (red.), Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu, Białystok, 359-370.

Research projects:
NCN Opus 20; nr 2020/39/B/HS3/02375, Absolute chronology of burials and loose human bones from the hunter-gatherer Stone Age sites Dudka and Szczepanki in Masuria (NE-Poland)
published results of the project:
– Bugajska, K. (2023). Purified by fire: Cremation burials in the Stone Age hunter-gatherer cemetery at Dudka, Masuria, northeast Poland. Documenta Praehistorica, 50, 110-135. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.50.10

 

 

Konstantinos Balamosev, PhD
Chair of Epigraphy and Papyrology

e-mail:
c.balamoshev@uw.edu.pl

duty hours:
Tuesday 12 a.m.–2 p.m., room 204, Faculty of Law and Administration, Library of Papyrology, Roman and Ancient Law

Maciej Miścicki, MA
Department of Medieval and Early Modern Archeology
Department for Archaeological Conservation

e-mail:
mmiscicki@uw.edu.pl

telephone:
+48 22 55 22 821

duty hours:
Wednesday 10 a.m.–11 a.m., room 0.31 or 0.36, by appointment
Thursday 12 p.m.–1 p.m., room 0.31 or 0.36, by appointment