Joanna Ostapkowicz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 124080 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joanna Ostapkowicz |
| PRENOMES | Joanna |
| SOBRENOME | Ostapkowicz |
| ASSINATURA | OSTAPKOWICZ J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Museums Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1563-815X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Jaguars and raptorial birds
A range of scientific methods are used to explore the histories (14th-17th centuries) of a collection of wooden carvings from the Trombetas region of northeastern Brazil. • The first multidisciplinary scientific study of a rare group of Amazonian ceremonial wood carvings in 19th century museum collections. • Radiocarbon dating provides far deeper histories, with the earliest examples extending back to the 14th century. • Wood identification indic…
Of Caribbean ‘white elephants’
Britain amassed extensive collections from its Caribbean colonies from the seventeenth century onwards, including significant holdings of pre-Columbian archaeological materials. But it is not until the nineteenth century that there is more substantive documentation for some of the most prized artefacts now held in British museum collections, including wooden duhos (ceremonial chairs). These were circulated between collectors before their deposit …
Stone carvings from the Lucayan archipelago
A small assemblage of stone carvings – monolithic axes, figural celts andpestles – were recovered from the Lucayan archipelago (The Bahamasand Turks and Caicos Islands) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,and are now held in museum collections. The majority have very littleassociated information, but “excavating” museum archives, consulting historicpublications, and building a corpus of surviving examples can expand theirinterpretive va…
"Collecting "Remembrances of these Isles
This article charts the collection history of the only surviving precolumbian cotton reliquary (cemí) from the Dominican Republic, establishing its provenance from the mid-nineteenth century through a previously unpublished manuscript written by the collector, Rodolfo Domingo Cambiaso Sosa, and using archival documents in Italy. The cemí, found in a cave in the southwest of the country near the town of Petitrou (Enriquillo), was purchased in 1882…
For there is no rock
This paper presents the first systematic study of pre-Columbian imported stone celts recovered from the limestone islands of the Lucayan archipelago, comprising The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands of the northern Caribbean/West Atlantic. The majority derive from antiquarian collections and early archaeological investigations, prior to the destruction of many sites due to guano mining and development; only a handful have been recovered du…
Dark materials
Iconography and Wetsite Archaeology of Florida's Watery Realms
Frank Hamilton Cushing’s 1896 excavations at Key Marco revealed astonishing carved and painted wooden artifacts rarely seen by archaeologists. Those following in Cushing’s footsteps have assembled a corpus of aesthetic objects from Florida, often in perishable materials. These range from an embarrassing number of dugout canoes, to the wooden animal carvings of Fort Center’s mortuary pond and the owl totem of Hontoon Island. Connections to neighbo…
Wetsite Archaeology and Iconography in Florida
Absence of Saharan dust influence on the strontium isotope ratios on modern trees from the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
We report on strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) isotope results from 91 modern trees growing on the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. The average 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio of 0.709169±0.000010 is consistent with the late Quaternary limestone of the islands and with the modern ocean value. The absence of any detectable influence of 87 Sr-enriched Saharan dust is notable, given the known contribution of this material to both past and recent soils of the Caribb…
To Produce “a Pleasing Effect
This article serves as an introduction to the use of beads – both indigenous and European – in surviving examples of body ornaments of the early colonial period Caribbean: a cemí/belt in the collections of Rome’s Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini,” a belt from the Weltmuseum Wien, and a cache of beads in a wooden vessel from the collections of the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico. These artifac…
The Origins of Tradescant’s ‘India Occidentali’ Wooden Clubs
This paper focuses on the material study (radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope analyses) of four large ‘India occidentali’ clubs, part of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and originally part of John Tradescant’s ‘Ark’, in Lambeth (1656). During the seventeenth century, the term ‘India occidentali/occidentales’ referred not only to the ‘West Indies’ (its literal translation), but to the Americas…
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
Black pitch, carved histories
East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture
Radiocarbon Dating Wooden Carvings and Skeletal Remains from Pitch Lake, Trinidad
Since the mid-19th century, rare prehistoric wooden carvings and human skeletal remains have been dredged from Pitch Lake, Trinidad, during commercial asphalt mining. Establishing a chronology for these objects is challenging, due to both a lack of stratigraphic and contextual information and the necessity to completely remove any pitch to ensure accurate radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates. A range of solvent extraction protocols was tested to identify th…
Integrating the Old World into the New
‘Made … With Admirable Artistry’
Vienna's Museum für Völkerkunde holds in its collections a rare sixteenth-century Taíno cotton belt from Hispaniola (today's Dominican Republic/Haiti) – one of only two surviving Taíno cotton artefacts to feature European ‘exotics’, including mirrors, jet beads and brass. This complex woven structure – a wearable work of art – offers a rare window on to one of the most prestigious of Taíno valuables, a personal ornament that literally wrapped the…
Birdmen, cemís and duhos
“Gods… Adorned with the Embroiderer’s Needle”
A unique cotton Taíno reliquary—the only extant example currently known—provides an unprecedented window onto the complex mortuary and ritual ceremonies of the pre-Hispanic Caribbean. This study explores its cultural context as recorded by the early Spanish and French chroniclers and missionaries who were witness to the use and beliefs surrounding these objects in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles. It provides the first AMS radiocarbon date fo…
Chronologies in wood and resin
Paired Dating of Pith and Outer Edge (Terminus) Samples from Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Wooden Sculptures
Radiocarbon dating of historical and archaeological wood can be complicated, sometimes involving issues of “inbuilt” age in slow-growing woods, and/or the possibility of reuse or long delays between felling and use of the wood. Terminus dates can be provided by dating the sapwood, or the outermost edge of heartwood, while a date from the pith can give an indication of the first years of growth. A sequence of samples from specific points within th…
‘Treasures… of black wood, brilliantly polished’
Five wooden sculptures from the pre-contact Caribbean, long held in museum collections, are here dated and given a context for the first time. The examples studied were made from dense Guaiacum wood, carved, polished and inlaid with shell fastened with resin. Dating the heartwood, sapwood and resins takes key examples of ‘Classic’ Taíno art back to the tenth century AD, and suggests that some objects were treasured and refurbished over centuries.…
The application of laser technology to the conservation of a Haida totem pole
Chronologies in wood and resin
Birdmen, cemís and duhos
The Origins of Tradescant’s ‘India Occidentali’ Wooden Clubs
This paper focuses on the material study (radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope analyses) of four large ‘India occidentali’ clubs, part of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and originally part of John Tradescant’s ‘Ark’, in Lambeth (1656). During the seventeenth century, the term ‘India occidentali/occidentales’ referred not only to the ‘West Indies’ (its literal translation), but to the Americas…
For there is no rock
This paper presents the first systematic study of pre-Columbian imported stone celts recovered from the limestone islands of the Lucayan archipelago, comprising The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands of the northern Caribbean/West Atlantic. The majority derive from antiquarian collections and early archaeological investigations, prior to the destruction of many sites due to guano mining and development; only a handful have been recovered du…
Dark materials
Radiocarbon Dating Wooden Carvings and Skeletal Remains from Pitch Lake, Trinidad
Since the mid-19th century, rare prehistoric wooden carvings and human skeletal remains have been dredged from Pitch Lake, Trinidad, during commercial asphalt mining. Establishing a chronology for these objects is challenging, due to both a lack of stratigraphic and contextual information and the necessity to completely remove any pitch to ensure accurate radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates. A range of solvent extraction protocols was tested to identify th…
Integrating the Old World into the New
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
Black pitch, carved histories
East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture
Paired Dating of Pith and Outer Edge (Terminus) Samples from Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Wooden Sculptures
Radiocarbon dating of historical and archaeological wood can be complicated, sometimes involving issues of “inbuilt” age in slow-growing woods, and/or the possibility of reuse or long delays between felling and use of the wood. Terminus dates can be provided by dating the sapwood, or the outermost edge of heartwood, while a date from the pith can give an indication of the first years of growth. A sequence of samples from specific points within th…
The application of laser technology to the conservation of a Haida totem pole
‘Treasures… of black wood, brilliantly polished’
Five wooden sculptures from the pre-contact Caribbean, long held in museum collections, are here dated and given a context for the first time. The examples studied were made from dense Guaiacum wood, carved, polished and inlaid with shell fastened with resin. Dating the heartwood, sapwood and resins takes key examples of ‘Classic’ Taíno art back to the tenth century AD, and suggests that some objects were treasured and refurbished over centuries.…
“Gods… Adorned with the Embroiderer’s Needle”
A unique cotton Taíno reliquary—the only extant example currently known—provides an unprecedented window onto the complex mortuary and ritual ceremonies of the pre-Hispanic Caribbean. This study explores its cultural context as recorded by the early Spanish and French chroniclers and missionaries who were witness to the use and beliefs surrounding these objects in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles. It provides the first AMS radiocarbon date fo…
Chronologies in wood and resin
Paired Dating of Pith and Outer Edge (Terminus) Samples from Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Wooden Sculptures
Radiocarbon dating of historical and archaeological wood can be complicated, sometimes involving issues of “inbuilt” age in slow-growing woods, and/or the possibility of reuse or long delays between felling and use of the wood. Terminus dates can be provided by dating the sapwood, or the outermost edge of heartwood, while a date from the pith can give an indication of the first years of growth. A sequence of samples from specific points within th…
‘Made … With Admirable Artistry’
Vienna's Museum für Völkerkunde holds in its collections a rare sixteenth-century Taíno cotton belt from Hispaniola (today's Dominican Republic/Haiti) – one of only two surviving Taíno cotton artefacts to feature European ‘exotics’, including mirrors, jet beads and brass. This complex woven structure – a wearable work of art – offers a rare window on to one of the most prestigious of Taíno valuables, a personal ornament that literally wrapped the…
Birdmen, cemís and duhos
Black pitch, carved histories
East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture
Radiocarbon Dating Wooden Carvings and Skeletal Remains from Pitch Lake, Trinidad
Since the mid-19th century, rare prehistoric wooden carvings and human skeletal remains have been dredged from Pitch Lake, Trinidad, during commercial asphalt mining. Establishing a chronology for these objects is challenging, due to both a lack of stratigraphic and contextual information and the necessity to completely remove any pitch to ensure accurate radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates. A range of solvent extraction protocols was tested to identify th…
Integrating the Old World into the New
Absence of Saharan dust influence on the strontium isotope ratios on modern trees from the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
We report on strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) isotope results from 91 modern trees growing on the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. The average 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio of 0.709169±0.000010 is consistent with the late Quaternary limestone of the islands and with the modern ocean value. The absence of any detectable influence of 87 Sr-enriched Saharan dust is notable, given the known contribution of this material to both past and recent soils of the Caribb…
To Produce “a Pleasing Effect
This article serves as an introduction to the use of beads – both indigenous and European – in surviving examples of body ornaments of the early colonial period Caribbean: a cemí/belt in the collections of Rome’s Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini,” a belt from the Weltmuseum Wien, and a cache of beads in a wooden vessel from the collections of the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico. These artifac…
The Origins of Tradescant’s ‘India Occidentali’ Wooden Clubs
This paper focuses on the material study (radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope analyses) of four large ‘India occidentali’ clubs, part of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and originally part of John Tradescant’s ‘Ark’, in Lambeth (1656). During the seventeenth century, the term ‘India occidentali/occidentales’ referred not only to the ‘West Indies’ (its literal translation), but to the Americas…
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
Iconography and Wetsite Archaeology of Florida's Watery Realms
Frank Hamilton Cushing’s 1896 excavations at Key Marco revealed astonishing carved and painted wooden artifacts rarely seen by archaeologists. Those following in Cushing’s footsteps have assembled a corpus of aesthetic objects from Florida, often in perishable materials. These range from an embarrassing number of dugout canoes, to the wooden animal carvings of Fort Center’s mortuary pond and the owl totem of Hontoon Island. Connections to neighbo…
Wetsite Archaeology and Iconography in Florida
Dark materials
For there is no rock
This paper presents the first systematic study of pre-Columbian imported stone celts recovered from the limestone islands of the Lucayan archipelago, comprising The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands of the northern Caribbean/West Atlantic. The majority derive from antiquarian collections and early archaeological investigations, prior to the destruction of many sites due to guano mining and development; only a handful have been recovered du…
Stone carvings from the Lucayan archipelago
A small assemblage of stone carvings – monolithic axes, figural celts andpestles – were recovered from the Lucayan archipelago (The Bahamasand Turks and Caicos Islands) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,and are now held in museum collections. The majority have very littleassociated information, but “excavating” museum archives, consulting historicpublications, and building a corpus of surviving examples can expand theirinterpretive va…
"Collecting "Remembrances of these Isles
This article charts the collection history of the only surviving precolumbian cotton reliquary (cemí) from the Dominican Republic, establishing its provenance from the mid-nineteenth century through a previously unpublished manuscript written by the collector, Rodolfo Domingo Cambiaso Sosa, and using archival documents in Italy. The cemí, found in a cave in the southwest of the country near the town of Petitrou (Enriquillo), was purchased in 1882…
Of Caribbean ‘white elephants’
Britain amassed extensive collections from its Caribbean colonies from the seventeenth century onwards, including significant holdings of pre-Columbian archaeological materials. But it is not until the nineteenth century that there is more substantive documentation for some of the most prized artefacts now held in British museum collections, including wooden duhos (ceremonial chairs). These were circulated between collectors before their deposit …
Jaguars and raptorial birds
A range of scientific methods are used to explore the histories (14th-17th centuries) of a collection of wooden carvings from the Trombetas region of northeastern Brazil. • The first multidisciplinary scientific study of a rare group of Amazonian ceremonial wood carvings in 19th century museum collections. • Radiocarbon dating provides far deeper histories, with the earliest examples extending back to the 14th century. • Wood identification indic…
Archaeology (18 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (10 obras) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (9 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 obras) · Radiocarbon dating (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Art (5 obras)