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Marek Chłodnicki


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mchlod@man.poznan.pl



Born on September 5th, 1955 in Poznań.




















Studies, scholarships, trainings

1974-1979

Studies of archaeology at History Faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
(UAM); M.A. thesis on Vessel pottery from the Neolithic settlement in Kadero.

1984

A Ph.D. thesis on Pottery making of Neolithic communities in Central Sudan, UAM, Poznań

1985-1986 scholarship in Egypt, part of the academic exchange between Poland and Egypt
1988 a short stay on scholarship in Cyprus
1992 participation in a culture managers` course organized by Urząd Wojewódzki in Poznań
1993 participation in museum management course organized by the Ministry of Culture and Art (Warsaw) and Chadwick Jones Associates

Professional career

1979-1980

Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy - asystent

1980-1983

Ateliers of Historic Building Conservation (PKZ), Poznań Branch: assistant, senior assistant

since 1983 Muzeum Archeologiczne in Poznań: senior assistant, custodian, senior custodian
since 1983 administrator of ancient and non-European collections
1984-1990 manager of the Scientific Documentation Department
1991-1996 Head Registrar
1996-2001 curator
since 2001 deputy director


Didactic work

1986-1987

lectures in general archaeology - the Stone Age - in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Mikolaj Kopernik University in Torun, and the Prehistoric Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań


Excavation work and organization of excavation research in Poland

since 1974

manager or member of numerous archaeological expeditions in north-eastern Poland (Pyrzyce region, Central Pomorze, Wielkopolska), mainly focused on the Neolithic Band Incised Pottery Culture and Funnel Beaker Culture

since 1995 has directed the rescue archaeological work along the transit gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe on the Brodziszewo - Myszki section (community of Szamotuly and Kiszkowo)
since 1997 member of the board of the Archaeological Research Centre of the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, Poznań; manages the rescue work on the planned A2 motorway

Excavation work in Egypt and the Sudane

since 1978

member of the Kadero expedition (the Sudan) - research in a Neolithic settlement, scientific description of vessel pottery

1985 member of an expedition in Alexandria and Tell Athrib (Egypt) - research of cities from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods
1986 member of the Munich Expedition in Minshat Abu Omar (Eastern Delta, Egypt) - research of a Predynastic burial ground and a cemetery from the Ptolemaic-Roman period
1987-1990 member of the Venetian Centro Studie Ricerche Ligabue expedition to Tell el Farkha (Egypt); description of pottery - a Predynastic and the Old Kingdom settlement
since 1994 member of the Royal Ontario Musum, Toronto, expedition to the Letti Basin (the Sudan) - directs exploration of the Neolithic settlement and Kerma culture exploration
1997 directir of the Poznań Archaeological Expedition to the Eastern Delta (Egypt) - investigation of the Predynastic and Old Kingdom settlement in Ghazala - Tell el Farkha

Membership of archaeological organizations

since 1986

member of International Society for Nubian Studies

since 1990 member of Poznańskie Towarzystwo Prehistoryczne (Poznań Prehistoric Society)
1990-1995 Vice-President of the Board, since 1995 president of the Board
since 1994 member of the International Association for Egyptologists

Specialization
  • the Neolithic and the Predynastic period in the Nile valley
  • the oldest vessel pottery
  • early farming societies in north-western Poland

Exhibitions organized
  • The archaeological season in the Wielkopolska-Kujawy Lowland
  • The Sudan (1986)
  • Retrieved treasures
  • Dawn of the Bronze Age on the Warta river

Selected publications

1981

The Kadero Neolithic Pottery, Nyame Akuma, 18, pp. 46-48

1982 Z badań nad ceramiką z osady neolitycznej w Kadero, Sudan. Przegląd Archeologiczny, t. 30, 1982, s. 81-117.
1984 Pottery from the Neolithic Settlement at Kadero (Central Sudan), [w:] L. Krzyżaniak, M.Kobusiewicz (ed.), Origin and Early Development of food producing cultures on North-Eastern Africa, Poznań, ss. 337-342.
1986 Stratigraphy and chronology of the Neolithic Kadero Pottery, Nubishe Studien. Mainz
1987 Ceramics from the Neolithic Cemetery at Kadero - Central Sudan, Archeologie du Nil Moyen, t. 2, ss. 141-147.
1988 Pottery from the archaeological survey of the Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt - interim report, Bulletin de liaison du groupe international d'Etude de la céramique Égyptienne, 13, ss. 22-26.
1989 Petrographic analysis of the Sudanese Neolithic Pottery, [w:] L. Krzyżaniak, M. Kobusiewicz (wyd.) Late Prehistory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara, Poznań, ss. 369- 373
1995 Wstępne wyniki badań ratowniczych na osadzie ludności kultury pucharów lejkowatych w Puzdrowcu, gm. Janowiec Wielkopolski, stan. 9, woj. bydgoskie, Komunikaty Archeologiczne, t. 7, ss. 61-66
1996 Skarby Muzeum Archeologicznego w Poznaniu, Poznań
1996 The Neolithic of the Letti Basin (Nubia), The workshops and the posters of XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Forli, ss. 79-80.
1996 Some notes on ancient Egyptian bread moulds, Etudes et Travaux.
1997 New types of the Neolithic pottery at Kadero (Sudan), Acts of the 8th International Conference for Nubian Studies, ss. 1-7.
1997 Megalithic graves in Western Pomerania [w:] Danuta Król (ed.) The Built Environment of Coast Areas During the Stone Age, Gdańsk, ss. 214-215, 258.

in cooperation with R. Fattovich R. i S. Salvatori,
1991 Italian Excavations in the Nile Delta: Fresh Data and New Hypotheses on 4th Millennium cultural development of Egyptian prehistory, Rivista di Archeologia, t. 15, s. 5-33.
1992 The Nille Delta in Transition: A View from Tell el Farkha [w:] C.M. van den Brink (ed.) The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th-3rd Millenium B.C., Tell Awiw, pp. 171-190
1992 The Italian Archaeological Mission of C.S.R.L. Venice of the Eastern Nile Delta:
a preliminary report of the 1987-1988 field seasons, CRIPEL, 14, Lille




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