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Organisers: Renata Ciołek, Anna Zapolska (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Numizmatyka na styku dyscyplin – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organisers: Mikołaj Pławiński, Ludwika Jończyk, (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw), Rytis Jonaitis, Irma Kaplūnaitė (Lithuanian Institute of History)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish/English

The spread of Christianity in various parts of the vast Baltic region was a long process that lasted for more than half a millennium and gradually transformed all aspects of human life as well as the perception of death and eschatological concepts, and consequently, also the funerary rituals.

The session will focus on discussing the changes – or their absence – in different aspects of daily life, material culture, and burial practices, in all their diversity. The aim of the session is to describe and explain the mechanisms of transformation brought about by the spread of Christianity in different parts of the Baltic region during the last centuries of the first and the early centuries of the second millennium AD.

Organisers: Anna Juga-Szymańska, Paweł Szymański (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Różne oblicza archeologii archiwalnej II – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organiser: Dariusz Błaszczyk (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Archeogenetyka – teraźniejszość i przyszłość badań kopalnego DNA w archeologii w Polsce – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organisers: Julia Chyla, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Michał Starski (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => RADOGOST: cyfrowe dane archeologiczne w praktyce badawczej – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organisers: Agata Ulanowska, Monika Kaczmarek, Kinga Winnicka, Katarzyna Żebrowska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka (Archaeological Museum in Biskupin), Gerasimoula Ioanna Nikolovieni (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University)

Session format: in-person

Session language: English

Textile tools, specifically clay spindle whorls and loom weights, frequently comprise the basic, albeit indirect, evidence for textile production in past societies. Over the last 20 years, notable progress in textile tools studies has made them not only informative about the qualities of textiles produced using them, but also brought them into the mainstream of archaeological artefacts, which has led to their publication in more comprehensive and comparative ways. However, both spindle whorls and loom weights are only parts of more complex implements and sets, such as spindles and distaffs, and always many tools were required to produce a textile. Textile tools kits included a series of different instruments, either personal or communal, including, e.g. spinning bowls, dyeing implements, carders, combs, metal scissors, metal and bone needles designed for different purposes, pins, hooks, shuttles, weft beaters, so called pin-beaters, various loom-types, and many more, several of which served multifunctional roles. But textile tools kits are found only occasionally, and since tools were frequently dispersed, they are often published separately according to the material from which they were made, while some may still await proper recognition. In this session, we would like to focus on textile tool kits by asking questions about their contexts – domestic, ritual, funerary; their specific functions and purposes, and use-wear; the particular sets of tools that might constitute a kit; their materiality, including a broad range of materials and tool making techniques, and, finally, possible biographies of textile tool kits that made them such unique finds.

Organisers: Marta Kaczanowicz, Anna Wodzińska, Dobrochna Zielińska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: English

Our aim is to encourage reflection on the changing concept of space in archaeology – how it is defined, experienced, and represented in material sources; how categories such as “public” and “private” have developed in different cultural and historical contexts; and how the boundaries between them are shaped through social practices. We welcome both regional and comparative approaches, encompassing various periods and research traditions. Topics may include, but are not limited to: changing perceptions of space over time, gendered and geographical differences, ritual aspects, and other perspectives that broaden the understanding of this multifaceted phenomenon. We hope this session will become a meeting ground for diverse research traditions and theoretical perspectives, as well as a forum for sharing concrete research results (case studies) that help us understand how space was (and continues to be) created through everyday, ritual, and symbolic practices.

Organisers: Paweł Szymański (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Agata Wiśniewska (The Stefan Woyda Museum of Ancient Mazovian Metallurgy in Pruszków)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Sposoby produkcji ceramiki naczyniowej w starożytności i we wczesnym średniowieczu na terenach dzisiejszej Polski – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organiser: Piotr Jaworski (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Miasto z widokiem. 25 lat badań Wydziału Archeologii UW w Ptolemais – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organisers: Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Marcin Wagner (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw), Barbara Wagner (Biological and Chemical Research Centre University of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry University of Warsaw)

Session format: in-person

Session language: Polish

For more information see => Zabytek archeologiczny w laboratorium – Wydział Archeologii UW

Organisers: Dariusz Błaszczyk, Marta Kaczanowicz, Marcin Wagner (Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw)

Session format: stacjonarna/in-person

Session language: Polish/English

The presentations in this session will focus on key research problems formulated by scholars in the course of their archaeological investigations. The talks will also serve as an attempt to synthesize and summarize the scientific and research activities of the staff of our Faculty, carried out both individually and within research teams—often formed in collaboration with researchers from various institutions. The session will additionally highlight the role and significance of different disciplines supporting archaeology.