M Wojenka
Biographic Data
| ID | 140417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Wojenka |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wojenka |
| SIGNATURE | WOJENKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6205-5627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
This study investigates past human presence at cave sites by analysing faecal biomarkers—specifically sterols, bile acids and phosphorus-and compares the results with available archaeological data. The research concentrates on seven sites in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (S Poland): Biśnik Cave, Bramka Rockshelter, Ciasna Cave, Łabajowa Cave, Łokietka Cave, Sąspowska Zachodnia Cave, and Shelter in Smoleń III. It involved analysing sediment sample…
An iron axe head from historical times discovered in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district)
In the 1970s, an iron axe head was discovered on the banks of the Skawa River in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district). This richly decorated find wa s brought years later by the finder’s son to the Sucha Beskidzka Municipal Museum. According to M. Głosek’s typology, the find can be classified as type VIII and dated in a broad time frame of the late medieval and the early post-medieval period
Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology at the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University
The Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, established in 1995 at the Jagiellonian University, continues a long-standing tradition of research into medieval and postmedieval material culture that dates back to the interwar period. Early investigations by Professor Rudolf Jamka and Assistant Professor Maria Cabalska laid the foundations for studies of fortified settlements and castles in Lesser Poland, while Professor Kazimierz Godło…
Guinea pig remains from the XVIth century Ojców castle (southern Poland)
Cave funeral practices during the Roman and Migration Periods in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland
Although caves have been used for funerary purposes almost since the dawn of time, there is very little evidence of such use in Central European Barbaricum. This paper presents newly obtained results from the Cracow Upland (southern Poland) concerning multiple skeletal remains that apparently share a similar third–fifth centuries AD chronology, corresponding to the Late Roman and Early Migration Periods. Multiple analyses have been performed to s…
Tracing ephemeral human occupation through archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and molecular proxies at Łabajowa Cave
Confirming ephemeral human occupation is a crucial issue in cave archaeology. The project 'Tracing human presence in caves of Polish Jura' focuses on the application of molecular methods to decode the history of past human activities in cave sediments in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The results will be compared with archaeological and palaeoecological proxies
Zooarchaeological Evidence from Medieval Ojców Castle, Lesser Poland
Archaeological research at Ojców castle has yielded important information about life in that medieval castle. The results of zooarchaeological analyses presented in this paper complement the archaeological research, adding to our knowledge of the diet of the castle inhabitants from the time of establishment of the castle until the final residents. Zooarchaeological research is also complemented by data from older settlement phases on the castle h…
Sepulchral use of caves in Lusatian culture: Evidence from the Sąspówka Valley in the Polish Jura
Funeral and ritual practices in cave sites during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age have been recognised in multiple sites south of the Carpathians. This paper presents the first evidence for the funeral and ritual use of cave sites with such chronology north of the Carpathians. Unburned human remains dated to Ha B and Ha C/D have been identified in two cave sites (Zbójecka Cave and Bramka Rockshelter) located 500 m apart, in the Polish Jura…
A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland
Due to the presence of multiple caves and rock shelters as well as flint outcrops, Ojców Upland is a region with an exceptionally high concentration of prehistoric human settlement traces. It has attracted archaeologists for over 150 years, leading to what was considered to have been a proper prospection of the area. Nonetheless, the analysis of airborne laser scanning has recently brought surprising results. In the very centre of the upland, on …
The girl with finches: A unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland
Cave burials are generally absent from historical periods in Europe. Consequently, the discovery of a post-medieval inhumation of a child buried with at least one bird head placed in the mouth in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland) is an exceptional find. The aim of this paper is to discuss this unique burial based on multiproxy analyses conducted on the human and avian remains, including genetic and isotopic analyses as well as CT scans, radioca…
Bramka Rockshelter: An Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura
Chronostratigraphy of Jerzmanowician. New data from Koziarnia Cave, Poland
Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: The Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study
The study of past environments, their ecology, and detailed changes through time has become an important task of environmental science. Records of paleoenvironment usually vary between regions owing to different influences of local climate, vegetation, relief, and depositional processes. Therefore, studying local sequences thoroughly allows paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions for particular regions, but it also provides importa…
Thirteen cave sites: Settlement patterns in Sąspów Valley, Polish Jura
Indirect Evidence of Falconry in Medieval Poland as Inferred from Published Zooarchaeological Studies
Although written sources indicate that falconry or hawking was very popular already in early medieval Poland, there is no hard zooarchaeological evidence that would support it. So far, only two studies based on animal remains suggested hawking in medieval Poland. The purpose of this study was to examine all published zooarchaeological reports from all archaeological sites in Poland and check for possible clues of hawking. Altogether, 281 remains …
A Mid Upper Palaeolithic Child Burial from Borsuka Cave (Southern Poland)
During the excavation in the Borsuka Cave site (southern Poland), extraordinary materials were obtained for the study of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) settlement in the region. In layer VI, six deciduous teeth of a modern Homo sapiens infant were discovered together with 112 pendants made from the teeth of European elk and steppe wisent or aurochs. The teeth appear to belong to a 12- to 18-month-old child. The sex of the child cannot be determ…
A Mid Upper Palaeolithic Child Burial from Borsuka Cave (Southern Poland)
During the excavation in the Borsuka Cave site (southern Poland), extraordinary materials were obtained for the study of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) settlement in the region. In layer VI, six deciduous teeth of a modern Homo sapiens infant were discovered together with 112 pendants made from the teeth of European elk and steppe wisent or aurochs. The teeth appear to belong to a 12- to 18-month-old child. The sex of the child cannot be determ…
Chronostratigraphy of Jerzmanowician. New data from Koziarnia Cave, Poland
Indirect Evidence of Falconry in Medieval Poland as Inferred from Published Zooarchaeological Studies
Although written sources indicate that falconry or hawking was very popular already in early medieval Poland, there is no hard zooarchaeological evidence that would support it. So far, only two studies based on animal remains suggested hawking in medieval Poland. The purpose of this study was to examine all published zooarchaeological reports from all archaeological sites in Poland and check for possible clues of hawking. Altogether, 281 remains …
Bramka Rockshelter: An Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura
Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: The Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study
The study of past environments, their ecology, and detailed changes through time has become an important task of environmental science. Records of paleoenvironment usually vary between regions owing to different influences of local climate, vegetation, relief, and depositional processes. Therefore, studying local sequences thoroughly allows paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions for particular regions, but it also provides importa…
A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland
Due to the presence of multiple caves and rock shelters as well as flint outcrops, Ojców Upland is a region with an exceptionally high concentration of prehistoric human settlement traces. It has attracted archaeologists for over 150 years, leading to what was considered to have been a proper prospection of the area. Nonetheless, the analysis of airborne laser scanning has recently brought surprising results. In the very centre of the upland, on …
Thirteen cave sites: Settlement patterns in Sąspów Valley, Polish Jura
Indirect Evidence of Falconry in Medieval Poland as Inferred from Published Zooarchaeological Studies
Although written sources indicate that falconry or hawking was very popular already in early medieval Poland, there is no hard zooarchaeological evidence that would support it. So far, only two studies based on animal remains suggested hawking in medieval Poland. The purpose of this study was to examine all published zooarchaeological reports from all archaeological sites in Poland and check for possible clues of hawking. Altogether, 281 remains …
A Mid Upper Palaeolithic Child Burial from Borsuka Cave (Southern Poland)
During the excavation in the Borsuka Cave site (southern Poland), extraordinary materials were obtained for the study of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic (MUP) settlement in the region. In layer VI, six deciduous teeth of a modern Homo sapiens infant were discovered together with 112 pendants made from the teeth of European elk and steppe wisent or aurochs. The teeth appear to belong to a 12- to 18-month-old child. The sex of the child cannot be determ…
Thirteen cave sites: Settlement patterns in Sąspów Valley, Polish Jura
Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: The Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study
The study of past environments, their ecology, and detailed changes through time has become an important task of environmental science. Records of paleoenvironment usually vary between regions owing to different influences of local climate, vegetation, relief, and depositional processes. Therefore, studying local sequences thoroughly allows paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions for particular regions, but it also provides importa…
Sepulchral use of caves in Lusatian culture: Evidence from the Sąspówka Valley in the Polish Jura
Funeral and ritual practices in cave sites during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age have been recognised in multiple sites south of the Carpathians. This paper presents the first evidence for the funeral and ritual use of cave sites with such chronology north of the Carpathians. Unburned human remains dated to Ha B and Ha C/D have been identified in two cave sites (Zbójecka Cave and Bramka Rockshelter) located 500 m apart, in the Polish Jura…
A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland
Due to the presence of multiple caves and rock shelters as well as flint outcrops, Ojców Upland is a region with an exceptionally high concentration of prehistoric human settlement traces. It has attracted archaeologists for over 150 years, leading to what was considered to have been a proper prospection of the area. Nonetheless, the analysis of airborne laser scanning has recently brought surprising results. In the very centre of the upland, on …
The girl with finches: A unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland
Cave burials are generally absent from historical periods in Europe. Consequently, the discovery of a post-medieval inhumation of a child buried with at least one bird head placed in the mouth in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland) is an exceptional find. The aim of this paper is to discuss this unique burial based on multiproxy analyses conducted on the human and avian remains, including genetic and isotopic analyses as well as CT scans, radioca…
Bramka Rockshelter: An Early Mesolithic cave site in Polish Jura
Chronostratigraphy of Jerzmanowician. New data from Koziarnia Cave, Poland
Zooarchaeological Evidence from Medieval Ojców Castle, Lesser Poland
Archaeological research at Ojców castle has yielded important information about life in that medieval castle. The results of zooarchaeological analyses presented in this paper complement the archaeological research, adding to our knowledge of the diet of the castle inhabitants from the time of establishment of the castle until the final residents. Zooarchaeological research is also complemented by data from older settlement phases on the castle h…
Guinea pig remains from the XVIth century Ojców castle (southern Poland)
Cave funeral practices during the Roman and Migration Periods in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland
Although caves have been used for funerary purposes almost since the dawn of time, there is very little evidence of such use in Central European Barbaricum. This paper presents newly obtained results from the Cracow Upland (southern Poland) concerning multiple skeletal remains that apparently share a similar third–fifth centuries AD chronology, corresponding to the Late Roman and Early Migration Periods. Multiple analyses have been performed to s…
Tracing ephemeral human occupation through archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and molecular proxies at Łabajowa Cave
Confirming ephemeral human occupation is a crucial issue in cave archaeology. The project 'Tracing human presence in caves of Polish Jura' focuses on the application of molecular methods to decode the history of past human activities in cave sediments in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The results will be compared with archaeological and palaeoecological proxies
An iron axe head from historical times discovered in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district)
In the 1970s, an iron axe head was discovered on the banks of the Skawa River in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district). This richly decorated find wa s brought years later by the finder’s son to the Sucha Beskidzka Municipal Museum. According to M. Głosek’s typology, the find can be classified as type VIII and dated in a broad time frame of the late medieval and the early post-medieval period
Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology at the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University
The Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, established in 1995 at the Jagiellonian University, continues a long-standing tradition of research into medieval and postmedieval material culture that dates back to the interwar period. Early investigations by Professor Rudolf Jamka and Assistant Professor Maria Cabalska laid the foundations for studies of fortified settlements and castles in Lesser Poland, while Professor Kazimierz Godło…
Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
This study investigates past human presence at cave sites by analysing faecal biomarkers—specifically sterols, bile acids and phosphorus-and compares the results with available archaeological data. The research concentrates on seven sites in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (S Poland): Biśnik Cave, Bramka Rockshelter, Ciasna Cave, Łabajowa Cave, Łokietka Cave, Sąspowska Zachodnia Cave, and Shelter in Smoleń III. It involved analysing sediment sample…
Archaeology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Cave (11 works) · Geology (9 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Paleontology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Radiocarbon dating (5 works)