Doc. dr hab. Hanna Więckowska

• Authors: Romuald Schild

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ROFESSOR HANNA WIĘCKOWSKA

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Hanna completed archaeological studies at the University of Warsaw, defending an MA thesis on the Tardennoisian industry in Masovia and Podlaquia. Concurrently with her studies, she worked in several archaeological institutions. The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences remained her place of work until her retirement in 1991. In 1965 she defended with the highest honors her doctoral thesis: Cultural differentiation in the Polish Mesolithic. In 1974 she received her habilitation degree, granted for lifetime scientific achievement, and a study entitled The hunting and fishing communities of the Early Holocene. She had the necessary skills to conduct her own fieldwork on a grand scale during the salvage excavation campaign in the Dębe Reservoir area on the Bug river, which she directed in 1958–1963. This campaign gave a breakthrough understanding of the Polish Mesolithic and its cultural base. A fundamental study (A cultural division of the Mesolithic in Masovia), written together with Maria Marczak, was published in 1967. In 1975 she published an extensive synthesis of the Mesolithic (Hunting and fishing communities of the Early Holocene) in the first volume of the monumental Prehistory of the Polish Lands. She carried also investigations in eastern and northern Poland. In 1967 the African chapter in her scholarly career began, associated entirely with the Combined Prehistoric Expedition Sudan, Etiopia nad Egypt. All in all, 35 research seasons on two continents. Modern archaeology of the Polish Mesolithic cannot be imagined without Hanna’s fieldwork which produced the most important chipped flint assemblages essential to the construction of a cultural taxonomy framework for the Mesolithic and scholarly writings.

Keywords

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Poland; Africa; Professor Więckowska; Mesolithic; Neolithic

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia Polski
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 7-10

Contributors

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Romuald Schild

• Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, al. Solidarności 105, 00 140 Warszawa