Poznań School of Archaeology

Arkadiusz Marciniak - Professor of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the years 2013-2019 he was Associate Professor at Flinders University. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University (twice) and at University College London. He is a scholarship holder of prestigious foundations, such as Humboldt, Fulbright, Andrew W. Mellon, Kosciuszko and Soros/Commonwealth Office. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Science and a member of Academia Europaea. His expertise is in the development of early farming communities in western Asia and central Europe and their progression to complex societies. He is an initiator and advocate of social zooarchaeology, a research paradigm aimed at investigating multifaceted social relations between humans and animals. His other interests comprise heritage pedagogies and contemporary challenges of heritage policies and strategies.  He directed and conducted numerous international research projects financially supported by such agencies and programs as Horizon2020, Culture 2007-2013, European Research Council, Erasmus Plus, DG Education and Culture Program, NWO HEAR JPICH or the Polish National Science Center. Michał Pawleta holds a position of associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research interests include the social function of archaeology, uses and misuses of the past in the present, archaeological methods and theory, the protection and management of the archaeological heritage, heritage studies, heritage tourism, gender archaeology, and the archaeology of childhood. His numerous publications include a book Przeszłość we współczesności. Studium metodologiczne archeologicznie kreowanej przeszłości w przestrzeni społecznej (The Past in the Present: A Methodological Study of an Archaeologically Created Past in Social Space) published in 2016.Włodzimierz Rączkowski - professor, full time employment. From the beginning of his research and teaching work at Adam Mickiewicz University, he was interested in theoretical archaeology and applying theoretical concepts in settlement pattern studies. For 15 years he carried out excavations and archaeological surveys in Middle Pomerania (North Poland) managing interdisciplinary projects on changes in settlement patterns from the Bronze Age till the Middle Ages. In the late 1990s, he shifted his area of research into aerial archaeology and other remote sensing methods in archaeological research and the protection and management of archaeological heritage within theoretical contexts. He was (and is) involved in European projects, e.g. European Landscapes: past, present and future,  ArchaeoLandscapes Europe, RESEARCH, TRIQUETRA. He was Chairman of Aerial Archaeology Research Group (2008–2011) and Vice-chairman (2011–2014). His current research interests comprise theoretical archaeology, remote sensing methods in archaeology, GIS as a tool in archaeology, settlement pattern studies, and past landscape studies. He has supervised 13 PhDs.

• Chapter 1. The Poznań School of Archaeology. An Outline (Marciniak et al).- Part 1. The Emergence of the Poznań School of Archaeology.- Chapter 2. Poznań School of Methodology: Institutional History – Research Program - Main Achievements (Brzechczyn).- Chapter 3. The Poznań School of Methodology and Its Continuations (Grad).- Part 2. The Character and Different Facets of the Poznań School of Archaeology.- Chapter 4. An Apologia of Methodology of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Mamzer).- Chapter 5. Danuta Minta-Tworzowska and Her Role in Conceptualizing the Poznań School of Archaeology and Advancing the Methodology of Archaeology in Poland (Pawleta).- Chapter 6. Did/Do Early Traditional Peoples Have a History? (Pałubicka).- Chapter 7. “Archaeology is Anthropology or it is Nothing”. But What Kind of Anthropology? (Kowalski).- Chapter 8. Philosophical Reflections on the Sources of Prehistoric Symbolism (Woźny).- Chapter 9. Shaping Archaeological Awareness and the Idea of Socializing Archeology (Julkowska).- Part 3. The Reception of the Poznań School of Archaeology in Poland and Beyond.- Chapter 10. Ethnoarchaeology in Toruń and the Influence of the Poznań School of Methodology (Kowalewski).- Chapter 11. Philosophy of Archaeology and the Poznań School of Methodology (Lozny).- Chapter 12. Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Hunter–gatherer Cultural Processes in Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: A Case Study in Darwinian Evolutionary Archaeology (Weber).