In April, the PCMA Seminars focus on collaborative archaeology and heritage studies. The second lecture in the “Heritage Month” series will be Nubian agricultural practices, crops, and heritage presented by Dr. Philippa Ryan. Abstract: “Interviews with elderly farmers in the Sukoot revealed little-recorded shifts in crops grown as well as interconnections with changing foodways, material culture, […]
Recordings of the PCMA Seminar “Textile archaeology in ancient Nubia. Methods and perspectives” have been made available online on the PCMA UW YouTube channel. The aim of the meeting was to present the results of ongoing projects, as well as various research questions, methodological approaches and future perspectives for textile archaeology in Nubia (read more). […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo held another seminar of PCMA scholarship-holders. Two lectures were presented during the meeting. Urszula Laska, MA, talked on the subject: “Necropoles in Greco-Roman Egypt. Preliminary results”. Abstract; “Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultural traditions blended during the Graeco-Roman period. This is evidenced by the example of the funeral architecture […]
In the coming month, the PCMA Seminars will focus on collaborative archaeology and heritage studies. The first lecture in the “Heritage Month” series will be Methodologies for Community Archaeology: Reflections from Egypt and Sudan presented by Dr. Gemma Tully. The aim of the “Heritage Month” organized by Dr. Tomomi Fushiya (PCMA UW) is to introduce […]
The upcoming PCMA Seminar will showcase the advances in research on ancient Nubian textiles undertaken recently, among others, at the PCMA UW. The event entitled “Textile archaeology in ancient Nubia. Methods and perspectives” will feature three separate presentations. Thanks to its arid climate, Nubia is the scene of many discoveries of well-preserved textile assemblages, recovered […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will feature a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak (Faculty of Archaeology UW) entitled: “New research perspectives in bioarchaeology: histology meets isotopes”. The lecture will be held in Polish, on 14th March 2022 at 11:30 am CET, on Zoom. Link to the […]
The next PCMA Seminar will feature a talk (rescheduled from the autumn) by Dr. Piotr Makowski, entitled “Towards a better understanding of the chronological and geographical distribution patterns of plain and painted handmade wares in Bilād al-Shām”. Abstract: “For nearly the entire span of the Islamic period plain and painted handmade wares were immutable components […]
Recording of Dr. Carol Meyer’s presenation “Bir Umm Fawakhir, a Byzantine period gold mining town in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” is now available on the PCMA UW YouTube channel. It was another PCMA Seminar delving into the subject of the exploitation of natural resources in the Eastern Desert in antiquity. This time, the topic […]
A seminar by the Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw will host a presentation by Dr Marta Żuchowska (Faculty of Archaeology) and Dr Ewa Paśnik-Tułowiecka (Faculty of Oriental Studies) entitled: “Preliminary study on meditation caves of Upper Mustang”. Abstract: “The presentation was produced as part of a grant awarded by Archaeo-Oriental Study […]
Another PCMA Seminar will be hosting Dr. Carol Meyer. Her talk continues the thread of natural resource exploitation in the Eastern Desert in antiquity covered in previous seminars. This time it will take a closer look at the functioning of the Byzantine Bir Umm Fawakir settlement and the customs of its inhabitants. The site, surveyed […]
The Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group organizes a seminar on the subject of „Buddhist Caves in Nepal: Art and Architecture” which will be held online on 28th February, 2022. Four papers on the art and architecture of Nepal’s meditation caves from the perspectives of archaeology, history, and epigraphy will be presented at the seminar, which begins […]
The PCMA UW Research Centre in Cairo held a PCMA scholar’s seminar. Due to the pandemic, this event was still closed to the public. Grzegorz Michalec, MA, presented a talk on the subject: “Technological behaviours of the Acheulean complex in northeast Africa (Egypt and Sudan)”. Abstract: “This seminar presents the assumptions of the PhD project […]