University of Gothenburg

Department Member, Dept of historical studies

Other Affiliations: Jagiellonian University, Department of Archaeology
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of History
Wessex Archaeology, Fieldwork Operations

PhD candidate

Gothenburg University Historiska Studier

Thesis Title: Populations dynamics and social stratification-diet and migrations of Unetice culture in Poland.

About

Historian and archaeologist, graduate of Jagiellonian University in Cracow,the member of the EU Forging Identities Project currently working at the Gothenburg University, Sweden.
My PhD project is regarding Early Bronze Age in southwestern Poland, focusing on Wroclaw  and the foreground of Moravian Gate on both Polish and Czech site respectively.The main aim of the project is to determinate the diet and migrations of chosen Úněticean communities basing on trace elements analyses and its relationships with social status of individuals within particular group. The main core of my undertaking has been divided into several parts, targeting different aspects of diet, migratory patterns and archaeological cultural diversity. These components may be observed on macro- and micro-regional scales in southern Poland under the Early Bronze Age period.

Project has been designed to combine varied elements: archaeological diagnostic, paleopathology,isotopic analyses (13C,15N,34S, 87Sr/86Sr) and finally radiocarbon dating, which enables us to place the whole structure within a chronological framework.
I examine human bones and teeth for indications of dietary and migratory patterns and their possible changes. This study has a potential to show a cross-section of Úneticean community in terms of food distribution and migratory patterns among genders,age groups along with c14 providing an insight into long forgotten past. Having at disposal previous anthropological data, I might be able not only to comment on previous descriptive researches, answering question 'What is going on?'. I'm hoping that it would be possible to deeper our view on consumption, wealth distribution and labor divisions in Early Bronze Age Europe communities as well. By performing trace-elements analyses on  Úneticean skeletal materials, I am intending accurately detect greater social polarization and migrations, proving or disproving today’s opinions in this matter.

Historyk i archeolog,absolwentka Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie. Obecnie jestem stypendystką EU Forging Identities i pracuje na Uniwersytecie w Geteborgu, Szwecja. Doktoryzuję się w zakresie badań izotopowych diety i migracji kultury unietyckiej na obszarach południowej Polski, konkretnie w rejonie Wrocławia.

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