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Andrzej Prinke


Born: July 5th, 1948 in Szczecin, Poland.














Education

Graduated at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan:
1970 r. - in archaeology ("Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in the area of Upper Noteć");

1971 r. - in ethnology ("Possibilities of comparative use of ethnological analogies
in archaeology").

1977 - Ph.D. in archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan ("Neolithic stone raw materials in the area of Mid-western Poland").

Areas of interest:
(1) archaeology of the Mesolithic and Neolithic of western Poland
(2) computer applications in archaeology

Employment

Since 1970 - employed by the Archaeological Museum in Poznan.
Since 1983 - the Head of the Archaeological Protection Service for the Poznan Province.

Organizations

Since 1993 member of the international ICOM-CIDOC Working Group on Archaeological Sites.

Publications


A number of publications in archaeological and ethnological journals, both in Poland and abroad (in English, French, German and Czech), including 10 books, 15 articles and 4 reviews.
Publication of Ph.D. thesis: "Neolithic raw-materials in the Neolithic of Mid-Western Poland",
1979 (with J.Skoczylas). [bibliography]

Activities


Carried out excavations on several sites in Poland, including Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic dune settlements, a Late Neolithic collective grave, Early Iron Age cemetery, Early Medieval barrows and a settlement; participated in numerous excavations in Poland and abroad (Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden).

1981: Member of the Polish-Algerian Expedition to Tassili-n-Ajjer, Central Sahara, Algeria (developing a recording system of prehistoric rock art).
Since 1986: Member of a team that has developed several computer programs for archaeology including AZP_Fox, a database on Polish archaeological sites (now being used as all-Polish standard).

Author of several computer applications user's guides (both in Polish and in English).
Author of several projects of archaeological rescue research programs on the West-Polish part of the Trans-European gas pipeline (Jamal Paninsula in Siberia - Western Europe) and on the planned system of Polish motorways.

Guest lectures on computer databases for archaeology: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (1993), University of Toronto, Canada (1994), Egyptian Antiquity Service - Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt (1995).

Organizer of all-Polish conference on computer applications in archaeology (Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1995) and co-organizer of all-Polish conference on current threats to the Polish Archaeological Heritage (Poznan Archaeological Museum, 1997).

Papers at several international conferences on computer applications in archaeology: Copenhagen, Kerkrade-Rolduc (Holland), New Delhi, Montreal (Canada), Essen (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Stoke-on-Trent (Great Britain), Forli (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Dublin (Ireland).

Since 1994: expert on archaeological heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.





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