Marek Woźniak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marek Woźniak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marek |
| FAMILY NAME | Woźniak |
| SIGNATURE | WOŹNIAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maria Curie-Skłodowska University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2450-0192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What We Should Get from the Partition of Czechoslovakia (Co powinniśmy dostać z parcelacji Czech ), or “Głos Lubelski” about the International Situation in Central Europe after the Munich Conference
In October 1938, when Europe was enveloped in political tensions, “Głos Lubelski” played the role of witness to the turbulent times. The newspaper not only reported on the ongoing events but also actively shaped public opinion, particularly in the context of the situation in Czechoslovakia. It warned against German territorial ambitions and called for retaining the balance of power in Central Europe. “Głos Lubelski” critically analyzed the policy…
Mapping the Past. Geographical Information Systems (GISes) in the Context of Studying the Past
Interactive online maps enable new perspectives and allow for multi-dimensional interaction with source data, becoming – thanks to that – an intuitive analytical resource for the purpose of exploring relations between the information, which were obscured up to this moment. Visualization of data in the form of interactive maps is becoming not only an attractive means for presenting the knowledge – e.g., in the form of diagrams, tables, and images …
Water and Fire – The History of a Mound of Ash
Archaeological work since 2014 in the Hellenistic areas of Berenike, a key port on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in c. 275 BC, has brought extensive evidence of water-related structures: a rock-cut well located inside a rebuilt early-Hellenistic gate and a nearby cistern with an associated rainwater-collection system, that has changed the way in which the sources and uses of water in Hellenistic Berenike is understood …
An early Roman burial ground in the port of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt
The cemeteries uncovered in the Red Sea harbor town of Berenike (Egypt), a thriving commercial center for close to 800 years, have been dated, to the early Roman (1st–2nd centuries AD) and late (4th to mid-6th centuries AD) periods respectively, but the ethnicities and religious proclivities of the deceased buried in these graves escapes interpretation. Several individual burials as well as numerous ring cairn tombs in the Eastern Desert hinterla…
More than just food from the sea
Hellenistic Berenike, a major harbour founded on the Red Sea coast of Egypt in the mid-3rd century BCE, was from the beginning dependent in part on the exploitation of its marine ecosystem to ensure a proper supply of food for the soldiers manning the fort as well as the population servicing the commercial harbour. The archaeomalacological assemblage from recent excavations (2009–2020) has provided material for redefining the relationship between…
Językowy (?) obraz przeszłości (?), czyli o tym, co się kryje za narracją historyczną
W artykule poruszam problemy związane z konsekwencjami tzw. „zwrotu językowego” dla refleksji nad szeroko rozumianą narracją historyczną. W uwagach o charakterze ogólnym wskazuję przyczyny zmian jakie się dokonały (i wciąż dokonują) na gruncie historiografii/pisarstwa historycznego, przede wszystkim tych związanych z uwzględnieniem nieklasycznego podejścia – opartego na odmiennych do klasycznych/tradycyjnych założeniach – do języka opowieści hist…
Ptolemaic Berenike
Excavations at Berenike (Trogodytika) on the Red Sea coast of Egypt provide a foundation date in the third quarter of the third century BCE, which corroborates Pliny the Elder's (HN 6.33.168) claim that Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285/2–246 BCE) established the port. Named after Philadelphus' mother, Berenike is the only archaeologically attested Hellenistic-era Red Sea emporium. According to literary evidence, it was one of about a dozen founde…
When the well runs dry
Evidence from a newly discovered well at Berenike, a Hellenistic port on Egypt's Red Sea coast, suggests that the late third-century BC hiatus in occupation may have resulted from a multi-year drought that caused the city's freshwater source to run dry. This climatic shift was probably triggered by a volcanic eruption in 209 BC, an event that also caused a failure of the Nile to flood, leading to the famine-induced revolt of 207-186 BC in Upper E…
Biografistyka – „historia z ludzką twarzą”
Operating and defending Red Sea harbors and Eastern Desert trails in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods
The Hellenistic road network in the Eastern Desert and Red Sea coast of Egypt has been at the nexus of important archaeological research on several sites in the region in the second half of the 20th century. The work was focused at first on the Roman remains of this network, but with time it became evident that the Romans had made use of a system developed in Hellenistic and even earlier, Pharaonic times. French and Italian investigations at Mars…
Livestock Economy at Berenike, a Hellenistic City on the Red Sea (Egypt)
Berenike Trogodytika was one of the cities founded by Ptolemy II in the early third century BC as a trans-shipment point for importing East African elephants for the Hellenistic Egyptian army. Our archaeological research at the site has resulted in the analysis of 9498 animal remains and 8644 mollusc shells that revealed the environmental conditions of the Hellenistic port and fortress and some changes in the residents’ food economy and diet. The…
Shaping a city and its defenses; fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika
Key information on the location, size and dating of the Ptolemaic fortifications of Berenike Trogodytika comes from archaeological excavations carried out in 2013–2015, following the 2012 season when the presence of military architecture in the Red Sea harbor was first discovered and identified (Woźniak and Rądkowska 2014). Sections of a thick wall constructed of gypsum anhydrite blocks on a wide foundation were recorded in the northern part of t…
Berenike Trogodytika
Archaeological fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015
The report brings a comprehensive summary of archaeological fieldwork and survey carried out in Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt and in the Eastern Desert hinterland over the course of two seasons in 2014 and 2015. The completed magnetic map of the site is discussed in some detail, assessing the potential for future excavations. The report covers the most important discoveries of the two seasons, which include fragments of Middle Kingdom Ph…
Berenike Project. Hellenistic fort, Roman harbor, late Roman temple, and other fieldwork
Brief overview of two seasons of archaeological survey and excavation carried out in 2012 and 2013 at the site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast and in two sub-projects in the Eastern Desert: the prehistoric cattle cemetery at Wadi Khashab and the Roman-era emerald mines at Sikait and Nugrus. Highpoints of the work at Berenike included discovery of the Hellenistic fort and fortifications that mark the original settlement of the site in the third q…
Indian steel
Among numerous exotic goods carried along ancient trade routes the so-called Seric iron is one of the most mysterious and least known. According to ancient sources, it was imported from a half-mythical land of Serica. New discoveries in southern India suggest it should be identified with the kingdom of Chera (in modern Tamilnadu) which existed between 300 BC and AD 300. This metal, one type of which was the patterned Damascene steel, was used mai…
Livestock Economy at Berenike, a Hellenistic City on the Red Sea (Egypt)
Berenike Trogodytika was one of the cities founded by Ptolemy II in the early third century BC as a trans-shipment point for importing East African elephants for the Hellenistic Egyptian army. Our archaeological research at the site has resulted in the analysis of 9498 animal remains and 8644 mollusc shells that revealed the environmental conditions of the Hellenistic port and fortress and some changes in the residents’ food economy and diet. The…
More than just food from the sea
Hellenistic Berenike, a major harbour founded on the Red Sea coast of Egypt in the mid-3rd century BCE, was from the beginning dependent in part on the exploitation of its marine ecosystem to ensure a proper supply of food for the soldiers manning the fort as well as the population servicing the commercial harbour. The archaeomalacological assemblage from recent excavations (2009–2020) has provided material for redefining the relationship between…
Ptolemaic Berenike
Excavations at Berenike (Trogodytika) on the Red Sea coast of Egypt provide a foundation date in the third quarter of the third century BCE, which corroborates Pliny the Elder's (HN 6.33.168) claim that Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285/2–246 BCE) established the port. Named after Philadelphus' mother, Berenike is the only archaeologically attested Hellenistic-era Red Sea emporium. According to literary evidence, it was one of about a dozen founde…
Berenike Project. Hellenistic fort, Roman harbor, late Roman temple, and other fieldwork
Brief overview of two seasons of archaeological survey and excavation carried out in 2012 and 2013 at the site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast and in two sub-projects in the Eastern Desert: the prehistoric cattle cemetery at Wadi Khashab and the Roman-era emerald mines at Sikait and Nugrus. Highpoints of the work at Berenike included discovery of the Hellenistic fort and fortifications that mark the original settlement of the site in the third q…
Indian steel
Among numerous exotic goods carried along ancient trade routes the so-called Seric iron is one of the most mysterious and least known. According to ancient sources, it was imported from a half-mythical land of Serica. New discoveries in southern India suggest it should be identified with the kingdom of Chera (in modern Tamilnadu) which existed between 300 BC and AD 300. This metal, one type of which was the patterned Damascene steel, was used mai…
Archaeological fieldwork in Berenike in 2014 and 2015
The report brings a comprehensive summary of archaeological fieldwork and survey carried out in Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt and in the Eastern Desert hinterland over the course of two seasons in 2014 and 2015. The completed magnetic map of the site is discussed in some detail, assessing the potential for future excavations. The report covers the most important discoveries of the two seasons, which include fragments of Middle Kingdom Ph…
Shaping a city and its defenses; fortifications of Hellenistic Berenike Trogodytika
Key information on the location, size and dating of the Ptolemaic fortifications of Berenike Trogodytika comes from archaeological excavations carried out in 2013–2015, following the 2012 season when the presence of military architecture in the Red Sea harbor was first discovered and identified (Woźniak and Rądkowska 2014). Sections of a thick wall constructed of gypsum anhydrite blocks on a wide foundation were recorded in the northern part of t…
Berenike Trogodytika
Operating and defending Red Sea harbors and Eastern Desert trails in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods
The Hellenistic road network in the Eastern Desert and Red Sea coast of Egypt has been at the nexus of important archaeological research on several sites in the region in the second half of the 20th century. The work was focused at first on the Roman remains of this network, but with time it became evident that the Romans had made use of a system developed in Hellenistic and even earlier, Pharaonic times. French and Italian investigations at Mars…
Livestock Economy at Berenike, a Hellenistic City on the Red Sea (Egypt)
Berenike Trogodytika was one of the cities founded by Ptolemy II in the early third century BC as a trans-shipment point for importing East African elephants for the Hellenistic Egyptian army. Our archaeological research at the site has resulted in the analysis of 9498 animal remains and 8644 mollusc shells that revealed the environmental conditions of the Hellenistic port and fortress and some changes in the residents’ food economy and diet. The…
Biografistyka – „historia z ludzką twarzą”
Językowy (?) obraz przeszłości (?), czyli o tym, co się kryje za narracją historyczną
W artykule poruszam problemy związane z konsekwencjami tzw. „zwrotu językowego” dla refleksji nad szeroko rozumianą narracją historyczną. W uwagach o charakterze ogólnym wskazuję przyczyny zmian jakie się dokonały (i wciąż dokonują) na gruncie historiografii/pisarstwa historycznego, przede wszystkim tych związanych z uwzględnieniem nieklasycznego podejścia – opartego na odmiennych do klasycznych/tradycyjnych założeniach – do języka opowieści hist…
Ptolemaic Berenike
Excavations at Berenike (Trogodytika) on the Red Sea coast of Egypt provide a foundation date in the third quarter of the third century BCE, which corroborates Pliny the Elder's (HN 6.33.168) claim that Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285/2–246 BCE) established the port. Named after Philadelphus' mother, Berenike is the only archaeologically attested Hellenistic-era Red Sea emporium. According to literary evidence, it was one of about a dozen founde…
When the well runs dry
Evidence from a newly discovered well at Berenike, a Hellenistic port on Egypt's Red Sea coast, suggests that the late third-century BC hiatus in occupation may have resulted from a multi-year drought that caused the city's freshwater source to run dry. This climatic shift was probably triggered by a volcanic eruption in 209 BC, an event that also caused a failure of the Nile to flood, leading to the famine-induced revolt of 207-186 BC in Upper E…
Water and Fire – The History of a Mound of Ash
Archaeological work since 2014 in the Hellenistic areas of Berenike, a key port on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in c. 275 BC, has brought extensive evidence of water-related structures: a rock-cut well located inside a rebuilt early-Hellenistic gate and a nearby cistern with an associated rainwater-collection system, that has changed the way in which the sources and uses of water in Hellenistic Berenike is understood …
An early Roman burial ground in the port of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of Egypt
The cemeteries uncovered in the Red Sea harbor town of Berenike (Egypt), a thriving commercial center for close to 800 years, have been dated, to the early Roman (1st–2nd centuries AD) and late (4th to mid-6th centuries AD) periods respectively, but the ethnicities and religious proclivities of the deceased buried in these graves escapes interpretation. Several individual burials as well as numerous ring cairn tombs in the Eastern Desert hinterla…
More than just food from the sea
Hellenistic Berenike, a major harbour founded on the Red Sea coast of Egypt in the mid-3rd century BCE, was from the beginning dependent in part on the exploitation of its marine ecosystem to ensure a proper supply of food for the soldiers manning the fort as well as the population servicing the commercial harbour. The archaeomalacological assemblage from recent excavations (2009–2020) has provided material for redefining the relationship between…
Mapping the Past. Geographical Information Systems (GISes) in the Context of Studying the Past
Interactive online maps enable new perspectives and allow for multi-dimensional interaction with source data, becoming – thanks to that – an intuitive analytical resource for the purpose of exploring relations between the information, which were obscured up to this moment. Visualization of data in the form of interactive maps is becoming not only an attractive means for presenting the knowledge – e.g., in the form of diagrams, tables, and images …
What We Should Get from the Partition of Czechoslovakia (Co powinniśmy dostać z parcelacji Czech ), or “Głos Lubelski” about the International Situation in Central Europe after the Munich Conference
In October 1938, when Europe was enveloped in political tensions, “Głos Lubelski” played the role of witness to the turbulent times. The newspaper not only reported on the ongoing events but also actively shaped public opinion, particularly in the context of the situation in Czechoslovakia. It warned against German territorial ambitions and called for retaining the balance of power in Central Europe. “Głos Lubelski” critically analyzed the policy…
Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (10 works) · Geology (7 works) · Excavation (6 works) · Hellenistic Period (6 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (4 works)