Museum in Kętrzyn

Faculty Member, Archaeology

About

1983-1988: Studies of Christian Archaeology at the Academy of Catholic Theology (presently Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University) in Warsaw (Poland)
1987-1991: assistant and then lecturer at the Museum in Ciechanów (Poland), Departament of Archeology
Since 1991: curator at the Museum in Kętrzyn (Poland), Departament of Archaeology


Main Research Theme: Changes of settlement patterns in Prussia from the late Migration Period to the Medieval Period

Main Research Fields:  Archeology of early medieval Prussians, Early Medieval and Medieval Pottery, Archeology of Medieval Town,  Archaeological Survey, Archeology of Settlement, Ritual and Sacrifice in Archaeology

Research visits:
2001 Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast - archives, museum collections, survey of archaeological sites
2003 Russia, Kaliningrad, Museum - collections and archival materials from the Early Middle Ages and Viking Period, survey of archaeological sites from the Early Middle Ages and Viking Period

Completed Research Projects:
Full documentation and verification survey of medieval defense systems on formerly Bartia (AZP 13-70, 13-71), 2007, co-financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Early medieval place of worship in Poganowo, site IV, distr. Ketrzyn (Warmia-Masuria Province) - studies and analysis (geodesy, archaeozoology, petrography), 2007-2008, co-financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Ongoing Research Projects:
Poganowo, site IV – center of early medieval Prussian settlement
Teutonic Castle in Kętrzyn – phases and techniques of construction, everyday life of inhabitants.
New methods of archaeological verification survey on forest areas [with LIDAR], 2011, co-financed by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

2012-2014 Landscape of early medieval Prussian settlements. Ecology of settlement complex in Poganowo, site 4 - project will be found by the National Science Centre. The project aims is to identify and investigate natural determinants of settlement and changes in the environment connected with settlement on the territories inhabited in the early Middle Ages by the Prussians. The place to carry out interdisciplinary research of archaeological landscape is settlement complex in Poganowo, site 4.The result of archaeological research will be reconstruction of relationship between man and the natural environment, identification of community adaptation strategies, environmental resources available to them and how they are used.
The result of environmental research will be reconstruction of natural environment in the micro-region, characteristics of environmental factors, which functioned settlement as well as forms and strength of anthropopressure, causing the transformation of the environment.
The final effect will be, Poland's first, model of environmental determinants of early medieval prussian settlement, reconstruction of archaeological landscapes together with changes related to the settlement pattern processes taking place in the environment, made for the early medieval settlement complex in Prussia. It will accounted a reference for the study of similar early medieval settlement structures and will contribute to reinterpretation of previously submitted scientific hypotheses.
The use of palaeoecological methods, will complement existing conclusions of historians and archaeologists. This will help to more accurately describe the dynamics of change of settlement patterns, taking into account issues, such as the type of economy, changes in intensity of human pressure and their connection with the settlement patern facts resulting from archaeological researches and from written sources.

Other activities:
Since 2006 – co-organisation of Medieval Fair of St James in Kętrzyn (end of July)