Arkadiusz Marciniak
Professor
Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University
Arkadiusz Marciniak
About me
I am a Professor of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. My expertise is in the development of early farming communities in the Old World, zooarchaeology, heritage pedagogy, and cultural heritage policies and strategies. I have been directing the excavation of the Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük since 2001. I am a member of Academia Europaea and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Past Work Experience
2013 -2020 Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law, Flinders University
2011 – 2012 Associate Visiting Professor, Archaeology Research Center, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
2003 – 2004 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, UCL London
1999 – 2000 Associate Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
My Education
2016 Professor Ordinarius, the title awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland
2006 Habilitation degree, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań
1994 PhD with distinction - Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań (supervisor: Prof. Janusz Piontek)
1992 MA, University of Oxford (supervisor: Prof. Andrew Sherratt)
1987 MA, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (supervisor: Prof. Jan Żak)
Specialisation
Other Specialisation
Archaeological Method and Theory, Education in Archaeology, Heritage Management, History of Archaeology, Settlement Archaeology, Zooarchaeology
Chronological Focus
Neolithic, Prehistory
Geographical Field
Near and Middle East, Northern Europe
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BOOKS0.05582932385
Marciniak, A., Pawleta, M. & Raczkowski W. (eds). 2025. The Poznan School of Archaeology. The Origin, Growth and Significance. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer0.10582932004
Marciniak, A., Zalewska, A.I., Cyngot, D., Iwaniszewski, S., Kowalewska-Marszalek, H. & Stepniowski, F.M. (eds.), 2024. Leksykon terminów archeologicznych. Kraków: Universitas.0.20582932005
Kajda, K., Kobialka, D. & Marciniak, A. (eds.) 2022. Archeologia wspólnotowa – poznajac przeszlosc, nie zapominajac o terazniejszosci. Kraków: Universitas0.30582932377
Pawleta, M., Marciniak, A. (eds.). 2021. Dziedzictwo kulturowe w kontekscie wyzwan zrównowazonego rozwoju. Kraków: Universitas & Oddzial Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Poznaniu.0.40582932378
Marciniak, A. (ed.). 2019. Concluding the Neolithic. The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium BC. Atlanta: Lockwood Press.0.50582932379
Piskin, E., Marciniak, A., Bartkowiak, M. (eds.). 2018. Environmental Archaeology. Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York: Springer.0.60582932380
Marciniak, A. 2018. Placing Animals in the Neolithic. Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities. Routledge: New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/97813154226190.70582932003
Feeney, K., Davies, J., Welsch, J., Hellmann, S., Drischl, Ch., Koller, F., Francois, P. & Marciniak, A. (eds.). 2018. Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems. Delft, The Netherlands: Rivers Publishers0.80582932007
Hodder, I. & Marciniak, A. (eds.). 2015. Assembling Çatalhöyük. Leeds: Maney Publishing.0.90582932009
Marciniak, A., Liibert K., Wachowicz L., Malinska, M. 2014. Discovering the Archaeologists of Poland 2012-14. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University.1.00582932381
ARTICLES1.05582932386
Filipowicz, P., Hordecki, J. & Marciniak, A. 2025. 25 years of Adam Mickiewicz University research at Çatalhöyük (Türkiye). Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia 30: 21-43; https://doi.org/10.14746/fpp.2025.30.011.10582932382
Kuijt, I. & Marciniak, A. 2024. How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74, 101573; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.1015731.20582932010
Pearson, J., Evans, J., Lamb, A., Baird, D., Hodder, I., Marciniak, A., Larsen, C.S., Knüsel, Ch.J., Haddow, S.D., Piloud, M.A., Bogaard, A., Fairbairn, A., Plug, J.-H., Mazzucato, C., Mustafaoglu, G., Feldman, M., Somel, M., & Fernández-Domínguez, E. 2023. Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22094801191.30582932383
Casanova, E. J. A., Knowles, T. D. J., Bayliss, A., Roffet-Salque, M., Heyd, V. M., Pyzel, J., Claßen, E., Domboróczki, L., Ilett, M., Lefranc, P., Jeunesse, C., Marciniak, A., van Wijk, I., & Evershed, R. P. 2022. Dating the emergence of dairying by the first farmers of Central Europe using 14C analysis of fatty acids preserved in pottery vessels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(43); https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.21093251181.40582932384
Marciniak, A., Pyzel, J., Krueger, M., Lisowski, M., Bronk Ramsey, Ch., Dunbar, E., Barclay, A., Gaydarska, B. & Whittle, A. 2022. A history of the LBK in the central Polish lowlands. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2022-20411.50582932011
Marciniak, A. 2022. Exploiting sheep and goats at the Late Lengyel settlement in Racot 18. Open Archaeology 8: 377-389; https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-02381.60582932012
Lewis, C., van Londen, H., Marciniak, A., Vareka, P. & Verspay, P. 2022. Exploring the impact of participative place-based community archaeology in rural Europe: Community archaeology in rural environments meeting societal challenges. Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage; https://doi: 10.1080/20518196.2021.20146971.70582932013
Greenfield, J. H. & Marciniak, A. 2021. The emergence and transmission of metallurgical technology for subsistence activities in daily life in northern Europe: A microscopic zooarchaeological perspective. Journal of Field Archaeology 46(4): 275-288; https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.19092791.80582932014