Paweł Wiktorowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 252399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paweł Wiktorowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paweł |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiktorowicz |
| SIGNATURE | WIKTOROWICZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3897-0948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Holocene Lithic Traditions on the Middle Nile in Light of New Data from Letti, Sudan
Authors Accepted Manuscript of a paper published in "Lithic Technology" (2025) The research of Early Holocene sites in the Middle Nile region enabled the establishment of general trends in technological traditions, including the creation of stone tools, ceramic vessels and subsistence. Nevertheless, the task of ascribing the origins of subsequent Neolithic tradition to these earlier ones was a challenging endeavor. This in turn served to reinforc…
Cattle domestication revisited
New advances in research on pre- and proto-historic settlement of Argi and Letti, Upper Nubia
New fieldwork in Argi and Letti (Southern Dongola Reach) has produced unique data on early Holocene settlement and burial practices. New surveys, backed by GIS data, shed light on true forms and preservation of settlements dating from the Paleolithic to the Kerma periods, providing an absolute chronology as well as exciting future directions
Ltd1
Research work carried out in the Letti Basin between 2022 and 2023 revealed a number of unknown sites including LTD1, showing the southern extent of the Kerman culture settlement sites (3rd–2nd millennium BC) in the Nile Valley. The findings represent an important voice in the decades-long debate on the “settlement hiatus” between the Third and Fourth Cataracts in this period. In addition, the results of the new excavations at Letti have yielded …
Southern province of the first African state
Discoveries at Letti provide important data on the functioning and reach of one of the oldest African civilisations: the kingdom of Kerma (2500–1500 BC). Extensive surveys and preliminary excavations have recorded numerous settlement and funerary sites in the region. Our results help to expand the economic data and chronology
Unearthing 6th-century CE occupation on the fringes of the Nile Valley. Closing the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad Basin (Sudan)
Presentation of the results of the last season of research in the Affad Basin (Northern Province, Sudan). Recent discoveries focused on the most distant archaeological sites known in the microregion, remote some 7 km from the current river. Explored features revealed cultural affinities with pastoralism at the semi-desert environment dated to the period between Meroitic and Makuria kingdoms
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley
Archaeological sites at Affad (Sudan) are the only ones in northeastern Africa providing ostological remains of both African aurochs (Bos primigenius), dated to 50 kya, and domestic cattle, dated to 7–6 kya. The evidence enables studies of behavioral diversity between taurids. Strontium isotope analyses of the tooth enamel of both Pleistocene and Holocene ruminants suggest the local origin of these animals. The archaeozoological analysis reveals …
The PalaeoAffad Project and the Prehistory of the Middle Nile
Current work on the PalaeoAffad Project allows us to contribute greatly to the legacy of prehistoric research in the Middle Nile Valley. This paper presents the state of research on Late Pleistocene settlement on both banks of the river. Based on absolute dates obtained in the Affad Basin (since MIS5 up to the 5th millennium BP), the prehistory of the area has become an important reference point for general NE-African studies. We were able to inv…
Affad 3.0/Cattle+. Field seasons 2017 and 2018 of the PalaeoAffad Project
The first Affad was the one we saw when the archaeological sites there were first investigated at the beginning of the century. The second Affad, which is the region that we have been exploring in the past 15 years, bore many signs of modern Sudanese culture encroaching upon the desert. In 2009, an asphalt road cut through the desert and shortly thereafter, the Debba bridge and power lines were constructed, the latter coming from a hydroelectric …
The PalaeoAffad Project and the Prehistory of the Middle Nile
Current work on the PalaeoAffad Project allows us to contribute greatly to the legacy of prehistoric research in the Middle Nile Valley. This paper presents the state of research on Late Pleistocene settlement on both banks of the river. Based on absolute dates obtained in the Affad Basin (since MIS5 up to the 5th millennium BP), the prehistory of the area has become an important reference point for general NE-African studies. We were able to inv…
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley
Archaeological sites at Affad (Sudan) are the only ones in northeastern Africa providing ostological remains of both African aurochs (Bos primigenius), dated to 50 kya, and domestic cattle, dated to 7–6 kya. The evidence enables studies of behavioral diversity between taurids. Strontium isotope analyses of the tooth enamel of both Pleistocene and Holocene ruminants suggest the local origin of these animals. The archaeozoological analysis reveals …
Cattle domestication revisited
Affad 3.0/Cattle+. Field seasons 2017 and 2018 of the PalaeoAffad Project
The first Affad was the one we saw when the archaeological sites there were first investigated at the beginning of the century. The second Affad, which is the region that we have been exploring in the past 15 years, bore many signs of modern Sudanese culture encroaching upon the desert. In 2009, an asphalt road cut through the desert and shortly thereafter, the Debba bridge and power lines were constructed, the latter coming from a hydroelectric …
The PalaeoAffad Project and the Prehistory of the Middle Nile
Current work on the PalaeoAffad Project allows us to contribute greatly to the legacy of prehistoric research in the Middle Nile Valley. This paper presents the state of research on Late Pleistocene settlement on both banks of the river. Based on absolute dates obtained in the Affad Basin (since MIS5 up to the 5th millennium BP), the prehistory of the area has become an important reference point for general NE-African studies. We were able to inv…
Wild and Domestic Cattle in the Ancient Nile Valley
Archaeological sites at Affad (Sudan) are the only ones in northeastern Africa providing ostological remains of both African aurochs (Bos primigenius), dated to 50 kya, and domestic cattle, dated to 7–6 kya. The evidence enables studies of behavioral diversity between taurids. Strontium isotope analyses of the tooth enamel of both Pleistocene and Holocene ruminants suggest the local origin of these animals. The archaeozoological analysis reveals …
Unearthing 6th-century CE occupation on the fringes of the Nile Valley. Closing the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad Basin (Sudan)
Presentation of the results of the last season of research in the Affad Basin (Northern Province, Sudan). Recent discoveries focused on the most distant archaeological sites known in the microregion, remote some 7 km from the current river. Explored features revealed cultural affinities with pastoralism at the semi-desert environment dated to the period between Meroitic and Makuria kingdoms
New advances in research on pre- and proto-historic settlement of Argi and Letti, Upper Nubia
New fieldwork in Argi and Letti (Southern Dongola Reach) has produced unique data on early Holocene settlement and burial practices. New surveys, backed by GIS data, shed light on true forms and preservation of settlements dating from the Paleolithic to the Kerma periods, providing an absolute chronology as well as exciting future directions
Ltd1
Research work carried out in the Letti Basin between 2022 and 2023 revealed a number of unknown sites including LTD1, showing the southern extent of the Kerman culture settlement sites (3rd–2nd millennium BC) in the Nile Valley. The findings represent an important voice in the decades-long debate on the “settlement hiatus” between the Third and Fourth Cataracts in this period. In addition, the results of the new excavations at Letti have yielded …
Southern province of the first African state
Discoveries at Letti provide important data on the functioning and reach of one of the oldest African civilisations: the kingdom of Kerma (2500–1500 BC). Extensive surveys and preliminary excavations have recorded numerous settlement and funerary sites in the region. Our results help to expand the economic data and chronology
Holocene Lithic Traditions on the Middle Nile in Light of New Data from Letti, Sudan
Authors Accepted Manuscript of a paper published in "Lithic Technology" (2025) The research of Early Holocene sites in the Middle Nile region enabled the establishment of general trends in technological traditions, including the creation of stone tools, ceramic vessels and subsistence. Nevertheless, the task of ascribing the origins of subsequent Neolithic tradition to these earlier ones was a challenging endeavor. This in turn served to reinforc…
Cattle domestication revisited
Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Holocene (3 works)