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Papers by Anna Gręzak
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica
The paper discusses the research methods and the most important results of the interdisciplinary... more The paper discusses the research methods and the most important results of the interdisciplinary project “The Former Gestapo Headquarters and the Provincial Office of Public Security in Anstadt Avenue in Łódź. Interdisciplinary Site Research” conducted in 2019–2021. Considering the challenges faced by the archaeology of the contemporary past, a subdiscipline of archaeology, an attempt was made to link the results of archaeological research to the relatively well-known historical context of structural and functional transformations of the site explored, mostly the establishment of a Jewish school in Anstadt Avenue at the end of the 1930s, the operation of the Gestapo headquarters during the Second World War and of the communist Provincial Office of Public Security after the war, and the division of the site into police and school sections in 1957, which has been preserved to date. Also ethnographic research was carried out, which identified sources referring to the forms of remembr...
Scientific Reports
The domestic cat is the world's most popular pet and one of the most detrimental predators in... more The domestic cat is the world's most popular pet and one of the most detrimental predators in terrestrial ecosystems. Effective protection of wildlife biodiversity demands detailed tracking of cat trophic ecology, and stable isotopes serve as a powerful proxy in dietary studies. However, a variable diet can make an isotopic pattern unreadable in opportunistic predators. To evaluate the usefulness of the isotopic method in cat ecology, we measured C and N isotope ratios in hundreds of archaeological cat bones. We determined trends in cat trophic paleoecology in northern Europe by exploiting population-scale patterns in animals from diverse locations. Our dataset shows a high variability of isotopic signals related to the socio-economic and/or geomorphological context. This points toward regularities in isotopic patterns across past cat populations. We provide a generalized guide to interpret the isotopic ecology of cats, emphasizing that regional isotopic baselines have a major i...
The Holocene
Archaeological findings from the Neolithic open-air location Ayakagytma ‘The Site’, situated in t... more Archaeological findings from the Neolithic open-air location Ayakagytma ‘The Site’, situated in the south-eastern part of the Kyzyl-kum Desert in Uzbekistan, can potentially shed new light on the camel domestication process in the Central Asian drylands and help to connect it to regional changes of paleoclimate. Detailed analyses of composition and13C isotopic ratios of fatty acids performed on potsherds from an archaeological horizon of a Keltaminar culture dated at 3000–4000 cal BC combined with analogical analyses of modern camel and horse milk samples from Uzbekistan indicated a plausible possibility that camels were kept and milked by stockbreeders of Ayakagytma during this time period. The observed herding practices based almost exclusively on camel husbandry, as opposed to earlier more balanced herds of cattle, horses and camels, were probably an adaptation to climate transition from relatively humid to relatively dry, and the following changes in vegetation. Such climatic sh...
Zoia. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age, 2021
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2016
It is believed on the basis of archaeozoological research that the domestic cat appeared in Centr... more It is believed on the basis of archaeozoological research that the domestic cat appeared in Central Europe during the Roman Period. In Poland, the domestic cat is a common species in medieval deposits. Only a few finds of cat remains of pre‐medieval age have been reported from Poland to date, including several specimens from deposits older than the Roman Period, dated to the pre‐Roman Period and even the Bronze Age. To clarify the earliest history of the domestic cat in Poland, the paper presents a review of the available published cat remains and adds some data about newly discovered remains. Combined methods of morphometry and ancient DNA were applied to enable distinction of wildcats and domestic cats. The domestic cat remains were radiocarbon dated. In six cases of domesticated cat reported in the literature, five were positively taxonomically verified, both by morphology and by genetic analysis, and one was recognised as a European wildcat. According to radiocarbon chronology, ...
Miejsce, które rodziło władzę. Gród z początków wczesnego średniowiecza w Pasymiu na Pojezierzu Mazurskim, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021
The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka ... more The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in Kuwait, has been excavated systematically since 2013 by the Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission. The investigated area yielded remains dated to the Late Islamic period, from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In the northernmost part of the site, a fish processing area was uncovered, while the remains of residential structures (houses 1 and 2), as well as a mosque, were discovered in the eastern part of the site. Concentrations of fireplaces, hearths and ovens were discovered inside the houses and courtyards of what seems to be the centre of the settlement as well as from the periphery of the site. Fishing was evidenced not only by the presence of fish bones but also by recovered fishing technologies, including the remains of stone fish traps that were discovered in the coastal waters near to the site. The excavations yielded 12,182 bones of marine fishes. Twenty eight ...
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone asse... more A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone assemblage found in a Late Bronze Age stratum at Gohar Tepe, Iran. The specimen has been identified as a chisel or gouge for which no analogous examples are known in the Near East. Studies examining similar tools from other regions suggest that such a tool may have been used for wood processing or pottery smoothing. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021
The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in K... more The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in Kuwait, has been excavated systematically since 2013 by the Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission. The investigated area yielded remains dated to the Late Islamic period, from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In the northernmost part of the site, a fish processing area was uncovered, while the remains of residential structures (houses 1 and 2), as well as a mosque, were discovered in the eastern part of the site. Concentrations of fireplaces, hearths and ovens were discovered inside the houses and courtyards of what seems to be the centre of the settlement as well as from the periphery of the site. Fishing was evidenced not only by the presence of fish bones but also by recovered fishing technologies, including the remains of stone fish traps that were discovered in the coastal waters near to the site. The excavations yielded 12,182 bones of marine fishes. Twenty eight families are represented, including six families of cartilaginous fishes. Ariidae bones were most numerous followed by Haemulidae, Sciaenidae and Carcharhinidae. The analysis of the assemblage shows that fishing could have been of great importance to the inhabitants of the settlement. Moreover, we attest different patterns in the fish assemblages between the two different parts of the village. The fish processing area can be seen as a workplace, while the daily activity took place in the village. These differences can also be used to shed light on the fishing techniques these people used.
Géoarchéologie des îles de la Méditerranée
During archaeological survey in the Abharrud basin (north-western Iran), 92 archaeological sites ... more During archaeological survey in the Abharrud basin (north-western Iran), 92 archaeological sites were identified, among them Tepe Khaleseh (36°11'22"N, 49°10'28"E, ~1600m.a.s.l.), a small settlement occupied during the Late Neolithic, ~6000-5600 BCE, and perhaps also during the Lower Palaeolithic (Aali 2006; Alibaigi & Khosravi 2009). The site, covering less than 1ha, was recently damaged as a result of illegal trenches and because of intensive land use in the area (Figure 1). For these reasons, rescue excavations were carried out during the summer and autumn of 2009 by Hamid Reza Valipour from the Department of Archaeology,
Studia Lednickie, 2018
In the 2015 season, the underwater research in Lake Lednica focused on further exploration of the... more In the 2015 season, the underwater research in Lake Lednica focused on
further exploration of the exploration plots of the Poznań bridge. In the course of
this research a wicker object in a radiating out shape was localised. During examination of the object and its cleaning aft er excavation, a great number of animal bone
remains were collected and analysed. Th ey almost exclusively came from fi shes. In the
bone material the remains of several fi shes were found: a catfi sh, eight perch, a pike
and fi shes of the Cyprinidae family, including at least two roach, as well as three remains of a pig. Radiocarbon dating of the organic material which the object was made
of indicates that it was placed aft er the bridge was no longer in use, probably in the late
12th or the early 13th century.
M. Ghilardi, ed., Géoarchéologie des îles de Méditerranée. Geoarchaeology of the Mediterranean Islands, Paris , 2016
partie 1 / Part 1 21 anthropisation et mutations paysagères à la transition paléolithique/Néolith... more partie 1 / Part 1 21 anthropisation et mutations paysagères à la transition paléolithique/Néolithique anthropization and landscape changes during the Late Paleolithic/Neolithic transition la diffusion du néolithique en Méditerranée 23 GUilaine Jean late pleistocene to early holocene sea-crossings in the aegean: direct, indirect and controversial evidence 33 papoUlia christina Variations relatives du niveau moyen de la mer en corse au cours des 6 000 dernières années 97 Vacchi Matteo, Ghilardi Matthieu, cUrrÁs andrés reconstructing the coastal configuration of lemnos island (northeast aegean sea, Greece) since the last Glacial Maximum 109 chalKioTi areti holocene sea level changes and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the ayia irini prehistoric settlement (Keos island, cyclades archipelago, Greece) 119 MoUrTzas nikos, KolaiTi eleni
Archeologia, 2017
Chowaniec R. in collaboration with J. Młynarczyk, K. Domżalski, T. Więcek, M. Wagner, A. Gręzak, ... more Chowaniec R. in collaboration with J. Młynarczyk, K. Domżalski, T. Więcek, M. Wagner, A. Gręzak, K. Misiewicz, M. Więch, K. Chmielewski, R. Lanteri, M. Fituła, M. Stobiecka, Acrai/Acrae – The Greek Colony and Roman Town. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the University of Warsaw Archaeological Expedition in 2015, Archeologia 66, 2015 (2017), p. 105–130
A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone asse... more A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone assemblage found in a Late Bronze Age stratum at Gohar Tepe, Iran. The specimen has been identified as a chisel or gouge for which no analogous examples are known in the Near East. Studies examining similar tools from other regions suggest that such a tool may have been used for wood processing or pottery smoothing.
Books by Anna Gręzak
ŻUŁAWKA 13, GM. WYRZYSK - POZOSTAŁOŚCI WIELOFAZOWEGO OSADNICTWA Z EPOKI KAMIENIA NA TERENIE WIELKOPOLSKI, 2019
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica
The paper discusses the research methods and the most important results of the interdisciplinary... more The paper discusses the research methods and the most important results of the interdisciplinary project “The Former Gestapo Headquarters and the Provincial Office of Public Security in Anstadt Avenue in Łódź. Interdisciplinary Site Research” conducted in 2019–2021. Considering the challenges faced by the archaeology of the contemporary past, a subdiscipline of archaeology, an attempt was made to link the results of archaeological research to the relatively well-known historical context of structural and functional transformations of the site explored, mostly the establishment of a Jewish school in Anstadt Avenue at the end of the 1930s, the operation of the Gestapo headquarters during the Second World War and of the communist Provincial Office of Public Security after the war, and the division of the site into police and school sections in 1957, which has been preserved to date. Also ethnographic research was carried out, which identified sources referring to the forms of remembr...
Scientific Reports
The domestic cat is the world's most popular pet and one of the most detrimental predators in... more The domestic cat is the world's most popular pet and one of the most detrimental predators in terrestrial ecosystems. Effective protection of wildlife biodiversity demands detailed tracking of cat trophic ecology, and stable isotopes serve as a powerful proxy in dietary studies. However, a variable diet can make an isotopic pattern unreadable in opportunistic predators. To evaluate the usefulness of the isotopic method in cat ecology, we measured C and N isotope ratios in hundreds of archaeological cat bones. We determined trends in cat trophic paleoecology in northern Europe by exploiting population-scale patterns in animals from diverse locations. Our dataset shows a high variability of isotopic signals related to the socio-economic and/or geomorphological context. This points toward regularities in isotopic patterns across past cat populations. We provide a generalized guide to interpret the isotopic ecology of cats, emphasizing that regional isotopic baselines have a major i...
The Holocene
Archaeological findings from the Neolithic open-air location Ayakagytma ‘The Site’, situated in t... more Archaeological findings from the Neolithic open-air location Ayakagytma ‘The Site’, situated in the south-eastern part of the Kyzyl-kum Desert in Uzbekistan, can potentially shed new light on the camel domestication process in the Central Asian drylands and help to connect it to regional changes of paleoclimate. Detailed analyses of composition and13C isotopic ratios of fatty acids performed on potsherds from an archaeological horizon of a Keltaminar culture dated at 3000–4000 cal BC combined with analogical analyses of modern camel and horse milk samples from Uzbekistan indicated a plausible possibility that camels were kept and milked by stockbreeders of Ayakagytma during this time period. The observed herding practices based almost exclusively on camel husbandry, as opposed to earlier more balanced herds of cattle, horses and camels, were probably an adaptation to climate transition from relatively humid to relatively dry, and the following changes in vegetation. Such climatic sh...
Zoia. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age, 2021
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2016
It is believed on the basis of archaeozoological research that the domestic cat appeared in Centr... more It is believed on the basis of archaeozoological research that the domestic cat appeared in Central Europe during the Roman Period. In Poland, the domestic cat is a common species in medieval deposits. Only a few finds of cat remains of pre‐medieval age have been reported from Poland to date, including several specimens from deposits older than the Roman Period, dated to the pre‐Roman Period and even the Bronze Age. To clarify the earliest history of the domestic cat in Poland, the paper presents a review of the available published cat remains and adds some data about newly discovered remains. Combined methods of morphometry and ancient DNA were applied to enable distinction of wildcats and domestic cats. The domestic cat remains were radiocarbon dated. In six cases of domesticated cat reported in the literature, five were positively taxonomically verified, both by morphology and by genetic analysis, and one was recognised as a European wildcat. According to radiocarbon chronology, ...
Miejsce, które rodziło władzę. Gród z początków wczesnego średniowiecza w Pasymiu na Pojezierzu Mazurskim, Dec 20, 2022
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021
The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka ... more The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in Kuwait, has been excavated systematically since 2013 by the Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission. The investigated area yielded remains dated to the Late Islamic period, from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In the northernmost part of the site, a fish processing area was uncovered, while the remains of residential structures (houses 1 and 2), as well as a mosque, were discovered in the eastern part of the site. Concentrations of fireplaces, hearths and ovens were discovered inside the houses and courtyards of what seems to be the centre of the settlement as well as from the periphery of the site. Fishing was evidenced not only by the presence of fish bones but also by recovered fishing technologies, including the remains of stone fish traps that were discovered in the coastal waters near to the site. The excavations yielded 12,182 bones of marine fishes. Twenty eight ...
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone asse... more A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone assemblage found in a Late Bronze Age stratum at Gohar Tepe, Iran. The specimen has been identified as a chisel or gouge for which no analogous examples are known in the Near East. Studies examining similar tools from other regions suggest that such a tool may have been used for wood processing or pottery smoothing. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021
The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in K... more The Kharā'ib al-Dasht settlement, located on the northeastern coast of the island of Failaka in Kuwait, has been excavated systematically since 2013 by the Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission. The investigated area yielded remains dated to the Late Islamic period, from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In the northernmost part of the site, a fish processing area was uncovered, while the remains of residential structures (houses 1 and 2), as well as a mosque, were discovered in the eastern part of the site. Concentrations of fireplaces, hearths and ovens were discovered inside the houses and courtyards of what seems to be the centre of the settlement as well as from the periphery of the site. Fishing was evidenced not only by the presence of fish bones but also by recovered fishing technologies, including the remains of stone fish traps that were discovered in the coastal waters near to the site. The excavations yielded 12,182 bones of marine fishes. Twenty eight families are represented, including six families of cartilaginous fishes. Ariidae bones were most numerous followed by Haemulidae, Sciaenidae and Carcharhinidae. The analysis of the assemblage shows that fishing could have been of great importance to the inhabitants of the settlement. Moreover, we attest different patterns in the fish assemblages between the two different parts of the village. The fish processing area can be seen as a workplace, while the daily activity took place in the village. These differences can also be used to shed light on the fishing techniques these people used.
Géoarchéologie des îles de la Méditerranée
During archaeological survey in the Abharrud basin (north-western Iran), 92 archaeological sites ... more During archaeological survey in the Abharrud basin (north-western Iran), 92 archaeological sites were identified, among them Tepe Khaleseh (36°11'22"N, 49°10'28"E, ~1600m.a.s.l.), a small settlement occupied during the Late Neolithic, ~6000-5600 BCE, and perhaps also during the Lower Palaeolithic (Aali 2006; Alibaigi & Khosravi 2009). The site, covering less than 1ha, was recently damaged as a result of illegal trenches and because of intensive land use in the area (Figure 1). For these reasons, rescue excavations were carried out during the summer and autumn of 2009 by Hamid Reza Valipour from the Department of Archaeology,
Studia Lednickie, 2018
In the 2015 season, the underwater research in Lake Lednica focused on further exploration of the... more In the 2015 season, the underwater research in Lake Lednica focused on
further exploration of the exploration plots of the Poznań bridge. In the course of
this research a wicker object in a radiating out shape was localised. During examination of the object and its cleaning aft er excavation, a great number of animal bone
remains were collected and analysed. Th ey almost exclusively came from fi shes. In the
bone material the remains of several fi shes were found: a catfi sh, eight perch, a pike
and fi shes of the Cyprinidae family, including at least two roach, as well as three remains of a pig. Radiocarbon dating of the organic material which the object was made
of indicates that it was placed aft er the bridge was no longer in use, probably in the late
12th or the early 13th century.
M. Ghilardi, ed., Géoarchéologie des îles de Méditerranée. Geoarchaeology of the Mediterranean Islands, Paris , 2016
partie 1 / Part 1 21 anthropisation et mutations paysagères à la transition paléolithique/Néolith... more partie 1 / Part 1 21 anthropisation et mutations paysagères à la transition paléolithique/Néolithique anthropization and landscape changes during the Late Paleolithic/Neolithic transition la diffusion du néolithique en Méditerranée 23 GUilaine Jean late pleistocene to early holocene sea-crossings in the aegean: direct, indirect and controversial evidence 33 papoUlia christina Variations relatives du niveau moyen de la mer en corse au cours des 6 000 dernières années 97 Vacchi Matteo, Ghilardi Matthieu, cUrrÁs andrés reconstructing the coastal configuration of lemnos island (northeast aegean sea, Greece) since the last Glacial Maximum 109 chalKioTi areti holocene sea level changes and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the ayia irini prehistoric settlement (Keos island, cyclades archipelago, Greece) 119 MoUrTzas nikos, KolaiTi eleni
Archeologia, 2017
Chowaniec R. in collaboration with J. Młynarczyk, K. Domżalski, T. Więcek, M. Wagner, A. Gręzak, ... more Chowaniec R. in collaboration with J. Młynarczyk, K. Domżalski, T. Więcek, M. Wagner, A. Gręzak, K. Misiewicz, M. Więch, K. Chmielewski, R. Lanteri, M. Fituła, M. Stobiecka, Acrai/Acrae – The Greek Colony and Roman Town. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the University of Warsaw Archaeological Expedition in 2015, Archeologia 66, 2015 (2017), p. 105–130
A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone asse... more A simple tool made from a gracile human femoral shaft was retrieved from a small animal bone assemblage found in a Late Bronze Age stratum at Gohar Tepe, Iran. The specimen has been identified as a chisel or gouge for which no analogous examples are known in the Near East. Studies examining similar tools from other regions suggest that such a tool may have been used for wood processing or pottery smoothing.