Marek Nowak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marek Nowak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marek |
| FAMILY NAME | Nowak |
| SIGNATURE | NOWAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1749-7669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Integration of war refugees from Ukraine? bottom-up and top-down views of Central European second-tier cities
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has triggered socio-cultural changes in Central Europe. War refugees, as a factor of social change, overlapped with cultural shift following the integration processes of UE. From this perspective, the integration of war refugees has also become a measure of the evolution of cities towards greater openness and resilience. The title question of integration triggered at least two analytical contexts: the first…
It’s a Matter of Time
Late-socialist blocks of flats (LSBFs) represent a significant part of the urban, architectural, and social legacies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). They are key to understanding the housing dynamics of CEE countries today. An ongoing debate surrounds their vitality versus their decline. As housing estates, LSBFs have historically served—and continue to serve—as unique environments for fostering neighborhood relations. The dat…
Betonowa pustynia”, która stała się zieloną łąką? Pytania o późnosocjalistyczne blokowiska w kontekście fenomenu ich społeczno-ekonomicznej witalności na przykładzie Polski
The issue of late-socialist block housing estates has been marked for years by ambivalence, the sources of which are strongly connected mainly with the ideological foundations of the systemic transformation. The aforementioned ambivalence is inscribed in the perception of block housing in the context of terms such as: “concrete desert”, “bedroom”, or ghettoized space (a reference to the subculture of the 1990s, the so-called blokersi), etc. Conte…
Feminized forced migration
The New Parochialism? Polish Migrant Catholic Parishes on the Path of Change
The text engages with the ongoing discussion about the role played by religion in social life, with attention paid to transnational dynamics of religiosity in migrants' individual experiences, expectations and modes of involvement. We concentrate on the research problem: how does the Roman Catholic Church, through the networks of the faithful, facilitate, challenge, and intersect with the adaptation or integration of migrants in their new setting…
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 . However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling 2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc 3 . Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia 5 and Anatolia 6 , have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic,…
The late modernist community in the late socialistic block of flats
The question of the big-city neighbourhood seems important due to the discussion on the condition of modern cities. The issue is centred on the problems of sustainable development and designing social relations. The problem of the neighbourhood in relation to various forms of residence triggers a discussion rooted in the classic issues of sociology as a discipline. In the proposed article, the researchers address the problem of the late socialist…
Obsidian Source Use Within the Alföld Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia
This paper reports the results of non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of 186 obsidian artifacts from eight archaeological sites attributable to the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600-4900 cal BC). This is the largest instrument-based study yet conducted and reported for Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (ALPC) artifacts from Slovakia, where ALPC chipped lithic assemblages are almost entirely composed of obsidian …
The Absolute Chronology of Collective Burials From the 2nd Millennium Bc in East Central Europe
This article discusses the absolute chronology of collective burials of the Trzciniec Cultural Circle communities of the Middle Bronze Age in East Central Europe. Based on Bayesian modeling of 91 accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dates from 18 cemeteries, the practice of collective burying of individuals was linked to a period of 400–640 (95.4%) years, between 1830–1690 (95.4%) and 1320–1160 (95.4%) BC. Collective burials in mo…
Plants of the Funnel Beaker culture in Poland
Neolithic communities appeared in Polish territories around the mid-6th millennium BC. However, till the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, they inhabited only small enclaves. Situation of this kind changed within the first half of the 4th millennium BC, when majority of Polish territories was settled by Neolithic groups reflected as the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB). There is a fairly large amount of data on plants cultivated by TRB people. On th…
The first vs. second stage of neolithisation in Polish territories (to say nothing of the third?)
The origins of the Neolithic in Polish territories are associated with migrations of groups of the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) after the mid-6th millennium BC. Communities of this culture only settled in enclaves distinguished by ecological conditions favourable to farming (‘LBK neolithisation’). This situation persisted into the 5th millennium BC, when these enclaves were inhabited by post-Linear groups. This state of affairs changed from …
People in the Mountains
HLC Project 2017. Jagiellonian University excavations in southern Jordan
The HLC (Heritage–Landscape–Community) archaeological metaproject, carried out since 2016 by the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, targets the archaeological heritage of southern Jordan (Tafila region), focusing currently on remains of the Early Bronze Age and earlier cultures that were found in the region. The project has already identified…
Do 14C dates always turn into an absolute chronology? The case of the Middle Neolithic in western Lesser Poland
In the late 5th, 4th, and early 3rd millennia BC, different archaeological units are visible in western Lesser Poland. According to traditional views, local branches of the late Lengyel-Polgár complex, the Funnel Beaker culture, and the Baden phenomena overlap chronologically in great measure. The results of investigations done with new radiocarbon dating show that in some cases a discrete mode and linearity of cultural transformation is recommen…
Neolithisation in Polish Territories
The neolithisation of Polish territories, approached from a global perspective, seems to proceed in both a complex and heterogeneous way. This was primarily caused by the highly transitional location. Additionally, the more or less fundamental differences in our understanding of the pivotal terms and phenomena play a major role in the insufficient and ambiguous state of knowledge on the discussed topic. Nevertheless, the fact that groups of class…
(Post)transformational Migration
Plant remains from an early Neolithic settlement at Moravany (eastern Slovakia)
Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin
9 papers from the session on Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin held at the 15th UISPP Congress in Lisbon in September 2006. Contents: 1) Mesolithic/Neolithic interactions in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Basin: an introduction (Marek Nowak); 2) The chipped stone assemblages of Mentese and the problem of the earliest occupation of Marmara region (Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva); 3) Late Mes…
Middle and Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in East Central Europe
According to traditional views, the main reason for ‘demesolithisation’ in East Central Europe was the spread of the Neolithic oecumene, particularly from c. 4000 BC. Simultaneously, the disintegrated Late Mesolithic world gradually underwent typological unification, and finally reached the stage that is sometimes described as pre-Neolithic. However, we definitely have to bear in mind that as a matter of fact we deal only with the ‘history’ of ar…
Transformations in East-Central Europe from 6000 to 3000 BC
In the sixth, fifth and fourth millennium BC, in the basins of the Vistula and the Oder, extremely complex economic, social and ideological transformations took place. They consisted in the emergence and expansion of new systems of circulating information (‘communicative communities’). The majority of these were connected with the Neolithic. The process involved a constant clash between foreign and local patterns. The latter, over time, prevailed…
The second phase of Neolithization in east-central Europe
This paper presents archaeological and palynological evidence for long continuation of the Mesolithic way of life in east-central Europe irrespective of the presence of early Neolithic farmers. The complete Neolithization of the area took place only about 3500 BC, as a consequence of long-term interactions between indigenous foragers and exotic farmers
Feminized forced migration
Middle and Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in East Central Europe
According to traditional views, the main reason for ‘demesolithisation’ in East Central Europe was the spread of the Neolithic oecumene, particularly from c. 4000 BC. Simultaneously, the disintegrated Late Mesolithic world gradually underwent typological unification, and finally reached the stage that is sometimes described as pre-Neolithic. However, we definitely have to bear in mind that as a matter of fact we deal only with the ‘history’ of ar…
The second phase of Neolithization in east-central Europe
This paper presents archaeological and palynological evidence for long continuation of the Mesolithic way of life in east-central Europe irrespective of the presence of early Neolithic farmers. The complete Neolithization of the area took place only about 3500 BC, as a consequence of long-term interactions between indigenous foragers and exotic farmers
Do 14C dates always turn into an absolute chronology? The case of the Middle Neolithic in western Lesser Poland
In the late 5th, 4th, and early 3rd millennia BC, different archaeological units are visible in western Lesser Poland. According to traditional views, local branches of the late Lengyel-Polgár complex, the Funnel Beaker culture, and the Baden phenomena overlap chronologically in great measure. The results of investigations done with new radiocarbon dating show that in some cases a discrete mode and linearity of cultural transformation is recommen…
Plant remains from an early Neolithic settlement at Moravany (eastern Slovakia)
The Absolute Chronology of Collective Burials From the 2nd Millennium Bc in East Central Europe
This article discusses the absolute chronology of collective burials of the Trzciniec Cultural Circle communities of the Middle Bronze Age in East Central Europe. Based on Bayesian modeling of 91 accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dates from 18 cemeteries, the practice of collective burying of individuals was linked to a period of 400–640 (95.4%) years, between 1830–1690 (95.4%) and 1320–1160 (95.4%) BC. Collective burials in mo…
Neolithisation in Polish Territories
The neolithisation of Polish territories, approached from a global perspective, seems to proceed in both a complex and heterogeneous way. This was primarily caused by the highly transitional location. Additionally, the more or less fundamental differences in our understanding of the pivotal terms and phenomena play a major role in the insufficient and ambiguous state of knowledge on the discussed topic. Nevertheless, the fact that groups of class…
The New Parochialism? Polish Migrant Catholic Parishes on the Path of Change
The text engages with the ongoing discussion about the role played by religion in social life, with attention paid to transnational dynamics of religiosity in migrants' individual experiences, expectations and modes of involvement. We concentrate on the research problem: how does the Roman Catholic Church, through the networks of the faithful, facilitate, challenge, and intersect with the adaptation or integration of migrants in their new setting…
Transformations in East-Central Europe from 6000 to 3000 BC
In the sixth, fifth and fourth millennium BC, in the basins of the Vistula and the Oder, extremely complex economic, social and ideological transformations took place. They consisted in the emergence and expansion of new systems of circulating information (‘communicative communities’). The majority of these were connected with the Neolithic. The process involved a constant clash between foreign and local patterns. The latter, over time, prevailed…
The late modernist community in the late socialistic block of flats
The question of the big-city neighbourhood seems important due to the discussion on the condition of modern cities. The issue is centred on the problems of sustainable development and designing social relations. The problem of the neighbourhood in relation to various forms of residence triggers a discussion rooted in the classic issues of sociology as a discipline. In the proposed article, the researchers address the problem of the late socialist…
Obsidian Source Use Within the Alföld Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia
This paper reports the results of non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of 186 obsidian artifacts from eight archaeological sites attributable to the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600-4900 cal BC). This is the largest instrument-based study yet conducted and reported for Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (ALPC) artifacts from Slovakia, where ALPC chipped lithic assemblages are almost entirely composed of obsidian …
Plants of the Funnel Beaker culture in Poland
Neolithic communities appeared in Polish territories around the mid-6th millennium BC. However, till the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, they inhabited only small enclaves. Situation of this kind changed within the first half of the 4th millennium BC, when majority of Polish territories was settled by Neolithic groups reflected as the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB). There is a fairly large amount of data on plants cultivated by TRB people. On th…
The second phase of Neolithization in east-central Europe
This paper presents archaeological and palynological evidence for long continuation of the Mesolithic way of life in east-central Europe irrespective of the presence of early Neolithic farmers. The complete Neolithization of the area took place only about 3500 BC, as a consequence of long-term interactions between indigenous foragers and exotic farmers
Transformations in East-Central Europe from 6000 to 3000 BC
In the sixth, fifth and fourth millennium BC, in the basins of the Vistula and the Oder, extremely complex economic, social and ideological transformations took place. They consisted in the emergence and expansion of new systems of circulating information (‘communicative communities’). The majority of these were connected with the Neolithic. The process involved a constant clash between foreign and local patterns. The latter, over time, prevailed…
Middle and Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in East Central Europe
According to traditional views, the main reason for ‘demesolithisation’ in East Central Europe was the spread of the Neolithic oecumene, particularly from c. 4000 BC. Simultaneously, the disintegrated Late Mesolithic world gradually underwent typological unification, and finally reached the stage that is sometimes described as pre-Neolithic. However, we definitely have to bear in mind that as a matter of fact we deal only with the ‘history’ of ar…
Plant remains from an early Neolithic settlement at Moravany (eastern Slovakia)
Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin
9 papers from the session on Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin held at the 15th UISPP Congress in Lisbon in September 2006. Contents: 1) Mesolithic/Neolithic interactions in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Basin: an introduction (Marek Nowak); 2) The chipped stone assemblages of Mentese and the problem of the earliest occupation of Marmara region (Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva); 3) Late Mes…
(Post)transformational Migration
Neolithisation in Polish Territories
The neolithisation of Polish territories, approached from a global perspective, seems to proceed in both a complex and heterogeneous way. This was primarily caused by the highly transitional location. Additionally, the more or less fundamental differences in our understanding of the pivotal terms and phenomena play a major role in the insufficient and ambiguous state of knowledge on the discussed topic. Nevertheless, the fact that groups of class…
Do 14C dates always turn into an absolute chronology? The case of the Middle Neolithic in western Lesser Poland
In the late 5th, 4th, and early 3rd millennia BC, different archaeological units are visible in western Lesser Poland. According to traditional views, local branches of the late Lengyel-Polgár complex, the Funnel Beaker culture, and the Baden phenomena overlap chronologically in great measure. The results of investigations done with new radiocarbon dating show that in some cases a discrete mode and linearity of cultural transformation is recommen…
People in the Mountains
HLC Project 2017. Jagiellonian University excavations in southern Jordan
The HLC (Heritage–Landscape–Community) archaeological metaproject, carried out since 2016 by the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, targets the archaeological heritage of southern Jordan (Tafila region), focusing currently on remains of the Early Bronze Age and earlier cultures that were found in the region. The project has already identified…
The first vs. second stage of neolithisation in Polish territories (to say nothing of the third?)
The origins of the Neolithic in Polish territories are associated with migrations of groups of the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) after the mid-6th millennium BC. Communities of this culture only settled in enclaves distinguished by ecological conditions favourable to farming (‘LBK neolithisation’). This situation persisted into the 5th millennium BC, when these enclaves were inhabited by post-Linear groups. This state of affairs changed from …
Plants of the Funnel Beaker culture in Poland
Neolithic communities appeared in Polish territories around the mid-6th millennium BC. However, till the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, they inhabited only small enclaves. Situation of this kind changed within the first half of the 4th millennium BC, when majority of Polish territories was settled by Neolithic groups reflected as the Funnel Beaker culture (TRB). There is a fairly large amount of data on plants cultivated by TRB people. On th…
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 . However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling 2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc 3 . Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia 5 and Anatolia 6 , have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic,…
The late modernist community in the late socialistic block of flats
The question of the big-city neighbourhood seems important due to the discussion on the condition of modern cities. The issue is centred on the problems of sustainable development and designing social relations. The problem of the neighbourhood in relation to various forms of residence triggers a discussion rooted in the classic issues of sociology as a discipline. In the proposed article, the researchers address the problem of the late socialist…
Obsidian Source Use Within the Alföld Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia
This paper reports the results of non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of 186 obsidian artifacts from eight archaeological sites attributable to the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600-4900 cal BC). This is the largest instrument-based study yet conducted and reported for Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (ALPC) artifacts from Slovakia, where ALPC chipped lithic assemblages are almost entirely composed of obsidian …
The Absolute Chronology of Collective Burials From the 2nd Millennium Bc in East Central Europe
This article discusses the absolute chronology of collective burials of the Trzciniec Cultural Circle communities of the Middle Bronze Age in East Central Europe. Based on Bayesian modeling of 91 accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dates from 18 cemeteries, the practice of collective burying of individuals was linked to a period of 400–640 (95.4%) years, between 1830–1690 (95.4%) and 1320–1160 (95.4%) BC. Collective burials in mo…
Feminized forced migration
The New Parochialism? Polish Migrant Catholic Parishes on the Path of Change
The text engages with the ongoing discussion about the role played by religion in social life, with attention paid to transnational dynamics of religiosity in migrants' individual experiences, expectations and modes of involvement. We concentrate on the research problem: how does the Roman Catholic Church, through the networks of the faithful, facilitate, challenge, and intersect with the adaptation or integration of migrants in their new setting…
Betonowa pustynia”, która stała się zieloną łąką? Pytania o późnosocjalistyczne blokowiska w kontekście fenomenu ich społeczno-ekonomicznej witalności na przykładzie Polski
The issue of late-socialist block housing estates has been marked for years by ambivalence, the sources of which are strongly connected mainly with the ideological foundations of the systemic transformation. The aforementioned ambivalence is inscribed in the perception of block housing in the context of terms such as: “concrete desert”, “bedroom”, or ghettoized space (a reference to the subculture of the 1990s, the so-called blokersi), etc. Conte…
Integration of war refugees from Ukraine? bottom-up and top-down views of Central European second-tier cities
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has triggered socio-cultural changes in Central Europe. War refugees, as a factor of social change, overlapped with cultural shift following the integration processes of UE. From this perspective, the integration of war refugees has also become a measure of the evolution of cities towards greater openness and resilience. The title question of integration triggered at least two analytical contexts: the first…
It’s a Matter of Time
Late-socialist blocks of flats (LSBFs) represent a significant part of the urban, architectural, and social legacies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). They are key to understanding the housing dynamics of CEE countries today. An ongoing debate surrounds their vitality versus their decline. As housing estates, LSBFs have historically served—and continue to serve—as unique environments for fostering neighborhood relations. The dat…
Geography (17 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (5 works)