Institute of Archaeology

Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Ciałowicz specializes in Middle Eastern and Egyptian art and archaeology, primarily focusing on the issues related to the beginnings of civilization and emergence of first states, the iconography and symbols of power as well as pre- and early dynastic Egyptian art. He has participated in excavation projects in Egypt (Alexandria, Qasr el Sagha), Sudan (Kadero, Soniyat), in Bulgaria, and on Spitsbergen, and currently leads the excavation works in Tell el-Farcha (Egipt). He is the author of six books and several dozen articles.   

Prof. dr hab. Paweł Valde-Nowak specializes in the Stone Age, and particularly in such issues as: European early agricultural settlements, mountain archaeology, the origins of pastoralism, Neolithisation processes in early agricultural centres and peripheral areas, flint production and use in the Stone Age, and Paleolithic cave settlements. He leads numerous excavations in the south of Poland and is a member of many academic organizations and editorial boards. His academic output includes about 140 papers and 6 books.

Prof. dr hab. Jan Chochorowski specializes in prehistoric and early historical archaeology of late bronze age and early iron age as well as historical archaeology of polar areas. He is primarily concerned with the origins and development of nomadic civilizations, with special focus on the history and culture of early historical nomads, such as Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians and on the development of defensive settlements in prehistoric times. He has conducted numerous excavations in Poland, the Sahara, Bulgaria, Spitsbergen, and Ukraine. He is the author and co-author of more than 160 academic publications and 6 books.

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kaczanowski specializes in the late pre-Roman period, the period of Roman influence, and the early Migration Period in Central and North European Barbaricum. His research interests mainly focus on issues related to the armament of Central and North European peoples in the Roman period, the relationships between these areas and the Roman state, the cultural relations in the Roman period, pre-Roman and Roman settlements. He has taken part in a number of excavations in Poland, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Balkans. He is the author of about one hundred publications and five books.

Prof. dr hab. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka specializes in ancient Greek and Cypriot archaeology and art, with special focus on ceramics. Her research interests also concentrate on Greek colonies in the Black Sea region and classical ancient relics in Polish collections. For many years, she has taken part in the excavations in Nea Paphos on Cyprus, working on Hellenistic ceramics. She has written two books and several dozen articles. 

Dr hab. Renata Madyda-Legutko, prof. UJ is primarily interested in the issues related to pre-Roman and Roman East European Barbaricum, and especially the chronology and cultural diversity of selected groups of relics, including pieces of clothing used by the peoples of Barbaricum in the Roman period, the contacts between the above mentioned regions and the Roman state, and the settlements in South-East Poland and the whole West Carpathian region, from the pre-Roman period to the Migration Period. She has conducted research at several Polish excavation sites, has written more than 100 hundred articles and three books, and co-authored two other books.

Dr hab. Wojciech Blajer, prof. UJ has focused his academic activities on the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, and especially on the issues related to the origins and the beginnings of Urnfield cultures and the role of Lusatian and Trzciniec cultures in South Poland. The second major area of his research is about the differentiation of various categories of metal products and the chronology and interpretation of Polish bronze relics, in the broad European context. He is the author of about 50 publications, including two books.

Dr hab. Jacek Poleski, prof. UJ is primarily concerned with early medieval archaeology. He specializes in the issues related to the development of early medieval fortified settlements in Małopolska region and the chronology of this period. The second field of his scientific interest is related to the methods of archaeological research at multilayer excavation sites and the use of computer methods in reconstructing archaeological objects and interpreting aerial photographs of archaeological sites. He has conducted research at several Polish early medieval fortified settlements and is the author of a few dozen publications and one book.

Dr hab. Krzysztof Sobczyk Prof. UJ specializes in the upper Paleolithic Period, primarily focusing on Magdalenian and Gravettian techno-complexes in Central Europe, in their technological and socioeconomic aspect, the production techniques and typology of Paleolithic stone items, the anthropogenesis, Paleolithic art, typology of Paleolithic stone products, and hunting strategies in the Paleolithic Era. He has carried out excavation research in Poland, Greece, and Slovakia and has written more than a dozen articles as well as three books.

Dr hab. Marek Nowak focuses on the late Stone Age in Europe, and especially on Neolithisation processes in Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. He is also interested in paleoenvironmental, paleoeconomic, and settlement issues related to the late Stone Age, and the possible use of statistical methods in the relevant research. He has participated in a number of excavation projects in Poland and abroad and has written about 50 publications, including three books.

Dr hab. Jarosław Bodzek specializes in Greek and Roman numismatics, with special focus on Archaic and Classical coin manufacturing in Asia Minor and at the Black Sea coast. Other fields of his interest are: Greek sculpture and architecture of the Classical and Hellenistic period and sculpture and architecture of the Republican Rome. His latest research has been focused on the symbols of naval victories in the Hellenistic Era. He is the author of more than a dozen papers.

Dr hab. Judyta Rodzińska-Nowak specializes in the pre-Roman period, Roman period and the early stages of the Migration Period in Central European Barbaricum region. Her research interests are primarily focused on ceramics production, economic and human settlement changes in Barbaricum region, and, most recently, on the differences within Przeworsk culture burial traditions. She takes part in numerous field research projects, is the author of two books and a co-author of one book.  

Dr hab. Marcin Biborski specializes in the late Pre-Roman period, Roman period, and early Migration Period in European Barbaricum. He is primarily interested in the armament of the peoples of European Barbaricum and the Roman Empire, with special focus on swords. He leads the research conducted by the Laboratory of Conservation and Archeometallurgy at the Department of Iron Age Archaeology of the JU Institute of Archaeology.

Dr Mariusz Jucha specializes in the history, art, and architecture of ancient Egypt. He has conducted studies on ancient Egyptian ceramics and architecture and has participated in a number of research expeditions to Egypt (Tell el-Farcha, Sakkara, Tell Atrib, Deir el-Bahari, Naqlun, Qasr el-Sagha).

Dr Michał Wasilewski is a Doctor of Earth Science and a geoarchaeologist. He has graduated in geology from AGH University of Science and Technology and in archaeology from the Jagiellonian University. His research interests focus on the possible applications of scientific methods in archaeological research. He is also active in the field of New World settlement, the early stages of New World cultures and the prehistory of South America. He is the author and co-author of more than a dozen articles in the areas between geology and archaeology as well as two books. He has taken part in research expeditions to Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

Dr Przemysław Nocuń specializes in legal archaeology and the archaeology of late medieval castles. His research interests are primarily focused on the role of castles in the cultural landscape of medieval Central Europe. He is also interested in archaeology and culture of medieval Transcaucasia, especially Georgia. He is the author of several dozen publications.

Dr Marzena Przybyła is interested in issues related to cultural changes in Barbaricum region in the period of Roman influence and the Migration Period. She specializes in cultural diversity and foreign contacts of the peoples that lived in the Baltic Basin in 3rd and 4th century AD. 

Dr Marcin Przybyła's resaerch interests focus on the Bronze Age environmental archaeology and especially on the issues related to settlement forms and patterns in the Carpathian region and the chronology and cultural diversity of the Danube basin. He is also interested in the issue of reconstructing the mechanisms of long-range connections in relation to the transformations of social and economic systems.

Dr Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin specializes in the issues related to Egyptian burial rituals in the pre-dynastic and early dynastic period. She has been a long-time member of the Polish Archaeological Expedition to the Eastern Nile Delta, where she has supervised the excavation works at the Tell el-Farkha cemetery. She is the author of more than a dozen papers.

Dr Jarosław Źrałka is interested in the Mesoamerican art and archaeology, the question of the fall of classical Mayan civilization, the settlement structure of Mayan lowlands, and their paleodemography. He has conducted studies into the Mayan, and, generally speaking, Mesoamerican iconography and the cultural changes in the North American East Woodland region in the late archaic and classical period. He has taken part in excavations in Mexico and Guatemala.  

Dr Wojciech Machowski specializes in ancient Greek burial rituals, the mythology and topography of ancient Greece, the Aegean civilization, with special focus on burial rituals and hero cults, and the Nabataean civilization, with special focus on burial rituals. He gives lectures on the Aegean archaeology and Nabatean civilization.

Dr Anna Gawlik specializes in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age Central and East European archaeology with special focus on early historical nomad peoples of Asian and East European steppes (especially Scythians). Her research interests also include the burial rituals and customs of the Lusatian Culture. She has published several articles.

Dr Radosław Palonka specializes in the history and archaeology of native North American cultures, with special focus on social structure and settlement structure of the South East and South West region. He has participated in a number of archaeological projects in the United States, some of which have involved collaboration between the researchers and the members of contemporary North American Indian communities.

Dr Piotr Kołodziejczyk specializes in pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egypt, including the unfolding socio-economic processes of the era. He has also been active in the field of modern research techniques and the promotion of archaeology and history. He has been a long-time member of the Polish Expedition to the Eastern Nile Delta.

Dr Dariusz Niemiec specializes in the historical archaeology of the late Middle Ages. His main field of study is the broadly understood urban archaeology, which has been reflected in his doctoral thesis on the archaeological aspect of the research into the origins and development of towns and cities based on German town law in medieval Kraków region.

Mgr Joanna Zagórska-Telega specializes in the issues related to the changes in burial rituals during the late Roman period.

Mgr Marcin Czarnowicz is a technical staff member at the Department of Egyptian and Middle Eastern Archaeology. His research work is focused on the prehistory of East Mediterranean coast, especially on the pre-dynastic and early dynastic period in Egypt, and the Copper Age and early Bronze Age in Palestine.

Mgr Łukasz Miszk is a member of the archaeological mission of the JU Department of Classical Archaeology in Nea Paphos on Cyprus. He has been the head or a participant of a number of excavations in Poland and a member of archaeological expeditions abroad: to Ukraine, Bulgaria, Italy, and Cyprus.

Prof. dr hab. Janusz K. Kozłowski specializes in the transition period between the middle and the upper Paleolithic, the origins of Homo sapiens, the evolution of Gravettian settlements in the West Carpathians, Neolithisation process in Central Europe, and the adaptation of Balkan early Neolithic structure to the ecological conditions of Central Europe. He used to lead a number of excavations in Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, Slovakia, and Hungary. He has been the author of about 200 publications, including around 20 books.

Prof. dr hab. Joachim Śliwa is an expert in Egyptian and Middle Eastern art and archaeology. He has conducted in-depth research on Egyptian amulets and scarabs and studies into the origins and history of the interest in Egypt and the Middle East. He participated in the excavations in Deir el-Bahari i el-Tarif (Egypt) and Palmyra (Syria) and was a long-time head of the excavations in Qasr el Sagha (Egypt), where he explored the remains of worker settlements from the Middle Kingdom period. He is the author of about 300 publications, including 12 books.

Prof. dr hab. Janusz Ostrowski specializes in ancient Roman art and archaeology, with special focus on the subjects from the field of classical ancient iconography: the symbolism of reliefs on Pagan and Christian sarcophagi and the issue of Greek and Roman personifications and their relations to the political propaganda. He has conducted studies into the history of Polish Mediterranean archaeology and archaeological collections. He participated in the excavations in Egypt (Alexandria) and on Cyprus (Nea Paphos), and conducted research in South-West Bulgaria. He is the author of several dozen articles and several books.

Prof. dr hab. Marek Gedl conducts research into the Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Central Europe (2300/2200 - 400/300 BC), with special focus on the chronology, mutual relations, background and origins of Bronze Age cultures (including Lusatian culture), the development of human culture in different parts of Europe as well as the relevant demographic and social issues. Another major field of his research is the investigation of great cemeteries (e.g. in Kietrz) and settlement structures. He used to lead excavations at numerous Polish sites. He is the author of more than 500 publications, including nearly 30 books.

Prof. dr hab. Bolesław Ginter's research activities have been focused on the essential issues of the Stone Age, and especially on the technical aspects of flint tools production in the Paleolithic period, the development of middle- and late-Paleolithic, Neolithisation processes in North East Africa, and changes in Paleolithic settlement patterns on the Balkan Peninsula. He used to lead excavations at a number of sites in Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Egypt. He is the author of about 140 publications, including more than a dozen books.   

Mgr Barbara Drobniewicz specializes in the topics related to the exploitation of stone deposits in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, Upper Paleolithic flint workshops in Kraków region, and analysis of stone products' functions. She participated in excavations in Poland (e.g. at the sites: Kraków-Zwierzyniec I, Kraków-ul.Spadzista, Brzoskwinia-Krzemionki, Sromowce Wyżne in Pieniny, Duża Cave in Mączna Skała) and abroad (in Baczo Kiro and Temanate Caves, Bulgaria, in Gonnersdorf and Einhornhole Cave, Germany, in Deir el Bahari and Armant, Egypt, and in Turkey).