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

dr hab. Aldona Mueller-Bieniek, prof. ucz.
Department of Bioarchaeology
Laboratorium Archeologicznych Analiz Specjalistycznych

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

duty hours:
Monday 13.15 pm–14.45 pm in the room 0.25 or 0.26,

other possibilities accessible after arrangement by e-mail

research interests:
– archaeobotany
– environmental archaeology
– palaeodiet

bibliography: selected papers (last 5 years)

• Mueller-Bieniek, A., Cieśliński, A., Drogosz, E., Woźniak, M., 2025. Plant macro-remains preserved in slag-pit furnaces from the Iron-Age settlement in the Mazovian Centre of Metallurgy. J. Archaeol. Sci. Rep. 67, 105385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105385  otwarty dostęp do 7.11.2025 pod linkiem https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1loDI,rVDBnO6N
• Cieśliński, A., Baczewski, M., Cywa, K., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Woźniak, M., 2025. The Mazovian Centre of Metallurgy: landscape and environmental conditions of mass iron production in Central Europe. Antiquity 1–8. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10183
• Wadyl, S., Szczepanik, P., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Makowiecki, D., Małkowski, W., 2025. Multidisciplinary study provides insight into archaeological context and environmental background of short-lived stronghold of Obłęże (Pomerania, Poland). Praehistorische Z. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2025-2021
• McClatchie, M., Matterne, V., Rovira Buendia, N., Andonova, M., Lohwasser, U., Waalen, W., Bantis, F., Knez, M., Milešević, J., Orahovac, A., Prosperi, P., Banerjee, A., Radić, I., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Beglaryan, M., Murphy-Bokern, D., Gil, D., Balázs, B., Negrão, S., 2025. Underutilised crops in Europe: An interdisciplinary approach towards sustainable practices. Archaeometry n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.13073
• Przybyła, M.S., Knutelski, S., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., 2024b. Charred plant remains and insect remains, in: Przybyła, M.S. (Ed.), Life Written in the Strata. Excavations of the North-Eastern Sector of the Prehistoric Hillfort in Maszkowice (Western Carpathians). Part 1. Profil-Archeo, Kraków, pp. 767–814
• Przybyła, M.S., Gocman, U., Mueller-Bieniek, A., 2024a. Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Farming and Animal Husbandry in the Mountain Section of the Dunajec Valley (Test Area 4), in: Przybyła, M.S., Dzięgielewski, K. (Eds.), Inheritance, Social Networks, Adaptation. Bronze and Early Iron Age Societies of the Western Carpathians. Brepols Publishers and Profil-Archeo, Turnhout and Kraków, pp. 465–482
• Filipović, D., Jones, G., Kirleis, W., Bogaard, A., Ballantyne, R., Charles, M., de Vareilles, A., Ergun, M., Gkatzogia, E., Holguin, A., Hristova, I., Karathanou, A., Kapcia, M., Knežić, D., Kotzamani, G., Lathiras, P., Livarda, A., Marinova, E., Michou, S., Mosulishvili, M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Obradović, D., Padgett, M., Paraskevopoulou, P., Petridou, C., Stylianakou, H., Zerl, T., Vidas, D., Valamoti, S.M., 2023. Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time. Veg. Hist. Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00954-w
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Korczyńska-Cappenberg, M., Kapcia, M., Nowak, M., 2023. Plant macro-remains from a large middle Neolithic settlement in SE Poland – Internal diversification and possible status of the settlers. Archaeol. Sci. Rep. 49, 104016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104016
• Korczyńska-Cappenberg, M., Nowak, M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Wilczyński, J., Pospuła, S., Wertz, K., Kalicki, T., Biesaga, P., Szwarczewski, P., Kapcia, M., Cappenberg, K., Wacnik, A., Hoyo, M.M., 2023. Middle Neolithic agricultural and land-use models in southern Poland: A case-study of the long-term settlement in Mozgawa. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231157065
• Mueller-Bieniek A. Cywa K. 2022. Pozostałości roślinne towarzyszące skarbom przedmiotów brązowych z Sanoka (Białej Góry) i Woli Sękowej, [w:] Blajer W., Bochnak T., Cywa K., Garbacz-Klempka A., Glinianowicz G., Jurecki P., Kotowicz P., Kuropka P., Łucejko J.J., Maciejewski M., Mueller-Bieniek A., Nowak K., Przybyła M.M., Skowron K., Ku czci bogów i ludzi. Skarby z okolic Sanoka. Studium interdyscyplinarne, Lublin-Sanok 2022, s. 141-148
• Nalepka, D., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Walanus, A., 2022. Spread of quinoa (Chenopodiaceae) pollen grains and finds of fat-hen (Chenopodium album) seeds in Kujawy in the Middle Holocene, in: Grygiel, M., Obst, P. (Eds.), Walking Among Ancient Trees. Fundacja Badań Archeologicznych Imienia Profesora Konrada Jażdżewskiego, Łódź, pp. 265–274
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Wilczyński, J., Przybyła, M.M., 2022. The same spot – Two different worlds: Plant and animal remains from multiculture site at Sadowie in southern Poland. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 45, 103608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103608
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., 2021. Owoce i nasiona ze stanowisk archeologicznych jako źródło wiedzy o paleośrodowisku, in: Gancarski, J. (Ed.), Zmiany środowiska i warunków klimatycznych w okresie od schyłkowego paleolitu do końca średniowiecza i ich wpływ na warunki życia człowieka w północnej części Europy Środkowej. Muzeum Podkarpackie w Krośnie, Krosno, pp. 87–120
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., 2021. Plants in the Lives of Medieval Cracovians, in: Izdebski, A., Szmytka, R. (Eds.), Krakow, an Ecobiography. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 68–87
• Mueller-Bieniek A., Rusishvili N., Jalabadze M., Kvavadze E.,  2021. Plant remains from Berikldeebi, Georgia, 1979-1992. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 15, 77–84.
• Kontny, B., Szeliga, M., Wojenka, M., Kosiński, T., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Kot, M., 2021. A Unique Clay Rattle from Koziarnia Cave in Southern Poland. Archäol. Korresp. 51, 91–109.
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., 2020. Kraków Mogiła 53, 55 – Kopiec Wandy. Raport z badań archeobotanicznych. Mater. Archeol. Nowej Huty 23: 305–310
• Salavert, A., Zazzo, A., Martin, L., Antolín, F., Gauthier, C., Thil, F., Tombret, O., Bouby, L., Manen, C., Mineo, M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Piqué, R., Rottoli, M., Rovira, N., Toulemonde, F., Vostrovská, I., 2020. Direct dating reveals the early history of opium poppy in western Europe. Sci. Rep. 10, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76924-3
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., Jarosińska, J., 2020. Neolityczne ślady użytkowania roślin w rejonie Dolnej Wierzycy i Janki na Pojezierzu Starogardzkim, in: Felczak, O. (Ed.), Wczesny i środkowy neolit na Pojezierzu Starogardzkim w świetle badań nad Dolną Wierzycą i Janką. Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk, Gdańsk, pp. 281–313. ISBN 978-83-956473-2-1
• Czajkowska, B.I., Bogaard, A., Charles, M., Jones, G., Kohler-Schneider, M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Brown, T.A., 2020. Ancient DNA typing indicates that the “new” glume wheat of early Eurasian agriculture is a cultivated member of the Triticum timopheevii group. Journal of Archaeological Science 123, 105258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105258
• Filipović, D., Meadows, J., Corso, M.D., Kirleis, W., Alsleben, A., Akeret, Ö., Bittmann, F., Bosi, G., Ciută, B., Dreslerová, D., Effenberger, H., Gyulai, F., Heiss, A.G., Hellmund, M., Jahns, S., Jakobitsch, T., Kapcia, M., Klooß, S., Kohler-Schneider, M., Kroll, H., Makarowicz, P., Marinova, E., Märkle, T., Medović, A., Mercuri, A.M., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Nisbet, R., Pashkevich, G., Perego, R., Pokorný, P., Pospieszny, Ł., Przybyła, M., Reed, K., Rennwanz, J., Stika, H.-P., Stobbe, A., Tolar, T., Wasylikowa, K., Wiethold, J., Zerl, T., 2020. New AMS 14 C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe. Scientific Reports 10, 13698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z
• Mnich, B., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Nowak, M., Wilczyński, J., Pospuła, S., Szostek, K., 2020. Terrestrial diet in prehistoric human groups from southern Poland based on human, faunal and botanical stable isotope evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 32, 102382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102382
• Pyzel, J., Mueller-Bieniek, A., Moskal-del Hoyo, M.M., 2020. The first farmers on the Vistula river  in the Polish lowlands, in: Gron, K.J., Sørensen, L., Rowley-Conwy, P. (Eds.), Farmers at the Frontier. A Pan-European Perspective of Neolithization. Oxbow Books, Oxford & Philadelphia, pp. 247–261
• Mueller-Bieniek, A., Pyzel, J., Kapcia, M., 2020. Chenopodium Seeds in Open-Air Archaeological Sites – How to Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater. Environmental Archaeology 25, 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2018.1536500

more publications:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aldona-Mueller-Bieniek

https://uw.academia.edu/AMuellerBieniek?from_navbar=true

other:

DIVERSICROP (CA22146)

Commission on Quaternary Palaeogeography, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences  http://pau.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/struktura/wydzialy-i-komisje/wydzial-iv-przyrodniczy/komisje-przy-wydziale-iv/komisja-paleogeografii-czwartorzedu

Dr. Ireneusz Jakubczyk
Department of Numismatics and Museology

e-mail:
i.jakubczyk@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 827

duty hours:
Thursday 11.00–13.00, room 3.27

research interests:
– archaeology of the Roman period
– Przeworsk culture
– Wielbark culture
– contact between Germanic tribes and Romans
– museology, conservation and popularisation of archaeology

bibliography:
IreneuszJakubczyk.pdf

Dr. Mikalai Plavinski
Department of Medieval and Early Modern Archeology

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

 phone number:
+48 22 55 22 821 

duty hours:
Wednesday 12.00–14.00, room nr 3.21
Thursday 12.00–14.00, room nr 3.21

research interests:
The main area of research is the archeology of the Polack land, the study of the Slavic burial rite of the early Middle Ages, the history of medieval Eastern European weapons.

selected bibilography:
Mikalai_Plavinski.pdf

Dr. Szymon Jellonek
Katedra Numizmatyki i Muzealnictwa

Martin Lemke, PhD
Department of Barbaricum and Roman Provincial Archaeology

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

telephone:
+48 22 55 22 809

consultation hours:
Monday 11 a.m.–1 p.m., room 3.09
Tuesday 1 p.m–3 p.m., room 3.09

research interests:
– Limes archaeology
– Roman provinces in the Balkans
– Roman army logistics
– Roman aqueducts and methods of water supply
– Ancient and modern military geography

about me:
Graduate of the then Institute of Archaeology at UW and the Faculty of Management at UW. Defended my PhD in 2012 at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, with a dissertation on the Military Geography of Lower Moesia. Completed postgraduate studies in International Law.

From 2002 to 2022 employee of the Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, University of Warsaw, among other things, coordinator of doctoral studies and project manager of the Danube Limes project under the EU’s Central Europe programme and the Frontiers of the Roman Empire project under the EU’s Culture 2000 programme.

Co-director of the project Archaeology of the Limes Maritimus Scythicus (formerly The Danube Underwater Heritage) and therein manager of the grant The Danube Underwater Heritage. Non-invasive underwater research along the Black Sea coast in the Danube Delta area, NCN: 2018/02/X/HS3/01745.
Author and promoter of Limes topics on behalf of the Limes Congress (e.g. S. Jilek, P. Dyczek, M. Lemke (eds.), In the Footsteps of the Romans, Warsaw 2011; S. Jilek, M. Lemke, P. Dyczek, J. Reclaw (eds.), The Danube Limes – A Roman River Frontier, Wien 2009). Member of the organising team of the 26th Limes Congress Batumi 2024.
Member of the Committee on the Archaeology of the Mediterranean Countries of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Sports Council of the University of Warsaw.

bibliography:
ORCID
Academia.edu

selected publications:

1. Lemke, The Dwindling Legion. Architectural and Administrational Changes in Novae (Moesia inferior) on the Verge to Late Antiquity, [in:] R. Collins, M. Weber, M. Symonds (eds.), Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers in Late Antiquity: Armies and their Architecture, London 2015, 90-97.
2. Lemke, Die Tücken des Terrains. Einige Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Unteren Donau zwischen Limes und Neuzeit, [in:] G. Sommer von Bülow (ed.), Kontaktzone Balkan. Beiträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums “Die Donau-Balkan-Region als Kontaktzone zwischen Ost-West und Nord-Süd” vom 16. bis 18. Mai 2012 in Frankfurt am Main, Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 20, Bonn 2015, 129-140.
3. Lemke, Towards a military geography of Moesia inferior, [in:] L. Vagalinski, N. Sharankov (eds.), Limes XXII. Proceedings of the XXIInd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Ruse, Bulgaria (September 2012). Sofia 2015, 845-852.
4. Lemke, Marsigli’s Moesia: the Limes Sites in Bulgaria as seen in the 18th Century, [in:] A. Tomas (ed.), Ad fines imperii Romani. Studia Thaddaeo Sarnowski septuagenario ab amicis, collegis discipulisque dedicate, Warszawa 2015, 173-192
5. Lemke, A. Tomas, The Mithraeum at Novae revisited, [in:] A. Tomas (ed.), Ad fines imperii Romani. Studia Thaddaeo Sarnowski septuagenario ab amicis, collegis discipulisque dedicate, Warszawa 2015, 227-247.
6. Lemke, Danube, Limes & Logistics. Some thoughts on Roman army supply chains in Moesia inferior, Novensia 27 (2016), 9-38
7. Lemke, Zwei bronzene Acheloosmasken aus der hellenistischen Hafensiedlung Rhizon (Montenegro), Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 47 (4/2017), 489-500.
8. Lemke, The water supply of the legionary fortress Novae (Bulgaria), [in:] S. Matešić, C.S. Sommer (eds.) Limes XXIII: Proceedings of the 23rd International Limes Congress Ingolstadt 2015. Akten des 23. Internationalen Limeskongresses in Ingolstadt 2015, 1015-1023, 2018
9. Lemke, Advocatus diaboli – What if it was not the Eighth Legion that built Novae?, [in:] Novensia 29 (2018), 73-86.
10. Lemke, G. Nuţu, M. Bajtler, K. Trusz, The Danube Underwater Heritage Project — First Steps, Novensia 29 (2018), 87-101.
11. Lemke, M. Bajtler, K. Trusz, Naval Supply Lines for the Roman Army in Moesia Inferior — Basic Considerations for the Danube Underwater Heritage Project, [in:] „Światowit” Supplement Series U: Underwater Archaeology, vol. II (2019) – Archaeology: Just Add Water, 39-58.
12. Lemke, S. Shpuza, B. Wojciechowski, Bushat, not lost but found: A ‘new’ Illyrian settlement in northern Albania, Antiquity 95/380, 1-9. doi:10.15184/aqy.2021.11
13. Lemke, Wasserversorgung mit einem Hauch von Selbstdarstellung. Zu den gestempelten flavischen Tonrohren aus Novae, [in:] K. Balbuza, M. Duch, Z. Kaczmarek, K. Królczyk, A. Tatarkiewicz (eds.) Antiquitas Aeterna. Classical Studies dedicated to Leszek Mrozewicz on his 70th Birthday (= Phillippika 153), Harrassowitz Wiesbaden, 2021, pp. 185-197.
14. Lemke, Lots of plumbing, little plumbum. The lead piping in Novae revisited on the occasion of a new find from sector 12, Novensia 30, 21-30.
15. Lemke, M. Daszkiewicz, Mixing it up. An analysis of hydraulic mortars used in the conduits and sewage canals of the Roman legionary fortress Novae (Bulgaria): composition and context, forthcoming