Dr. Małgorzata Siennicka

A postdoc in the ERC Consolidator Project WEIGHTANDVALUE

• Cultural contacts and exchange in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean


• Early metrology and balance weights


• Prehistoric textile research


• Prehistoric craftmanship


• Architecure,and social and space organisation of the settlements in the Aegean

• Since July 2017
  A postdoc on the University of Göttingen


• 2013 – 2017
  Associate Professor in the Centre for Textile Research, SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen (2015 – 2016 Parental leave)
  Research grant: Marie Curie Actions Intra-European Fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF) for the individual project “Greek Textile Tools. Continuity and changes in textile production in Early Bronze Age Greece” http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/marie-sklodowska-curie-projects/previous-marie-sklodowska-curie-projects/greek_textile_tools/


• 2011 – 2013
  Parental leave


• 2010
  Ph.D. thesis “Spatial and Social Organisation of Late Helladic III Mycenae and Contemporary Settlements in the Argolid”, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw.


• Since 2002
  An assistant in the Department of the Aegean Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (on leave since 2010)


• 2000 – 2002
  Two-year Postgraduate studies for Greek Culture and Language („Hellenic Studies“), University of Warsaw


• 1995 – 2000
  MA studies in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
  Master Thesis “Functions of Interiors in Early Helladic Houses” (written in Polish: Funkcje wnętrz budynków mieszkalnych w okresie wczesnohelladzkim). Supervisor: Prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski.

• Tradition and innovation in textile technology in Bronze Age Europe and the Mediterranean Report on Session TH1-13 at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA in Vilnius, Lithuania, TEA 51 (2017) 14-15 (with A. Ulanowska)


• So simple yet universal. Contextual and experimental approach to clay ‘spools’ from Bronze Age Greece, in: J. Ortiz – C. Alfaro – L. Turell – M.a J. Martínez (eds.), Purpureae Vestes V. Ancient Textiles, Basketry and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Proceedings of Vth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Montserrat, 19-22 March, 2014) València 2016, 25-36 (with A. Ulanowska)


• Courts and open spaces in the Late Helladic III Argolid, in: Ann-Louise Schallin & Iphiyenia Tournavitou (eds.) Mycenaeans up to date. The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese ― current concepts and new directions, ACTA INSTITUTI ATHENIENSIS REGNI SUECIAE, SERIES IN 4°, 56, Stockholm 2015, 361-376


• Textile Tools at Tiryns, mainland Greece, in: E. Andersson Strand, M.-L. Nosch (eds.), Tools, Textiles and Contexts. Investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, Ancient Textiles Series 21, Oxford 2015, 267-278 (with L. Rahmstorf, E. Andersson Strand, M.-L. Nosch, J. Cutler)


• Textiles in a social context and First Textiles. Two conferences about prehistoric textiles, Achaeological Textiles Review 57 (2015) 128-129


• Textiles in a social context. Textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE, The European Archaeologist 43 (2015) 41-44 (with L. Rahmstorf, A. Ulanowska)


• Changes in textile production in Late Bronze Age Tiryns, Greece, in: K. Droß-Krüpe (ed.), Textile trade and distribution in antiquity. Textilhandel und -distribution in der Antike (Philippika 73) Wiesbaden 2014, 161-176.


• First Textiles. The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean, The European Archaeologist – Issue No. 41: Summer 2014, 38-39


• Textile Production in Early Helladic Tiryns, in: M.-L. Nosch, R. Laffineur (eds), KOSMOS. Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age. 13th International Aegean Conference held at Copenhagen, April 2010/13eme rencontre égénne, Copenhague, avril 2010. Aegaeum 33, Leuven-Liège 2012, 65–76.


• Spatial Organisation of Late Mycenaean Settlements, in: B. Horejs, T.L. Kienlin (eds.), Siedlung und Handwerk. Studien zu sozialen Kontexten in der Bronzezeit. Beiträge zu den Sitzungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bronzezeit auf der Jahrestagung des Nordwestdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumforschung in Schleswig 2007 und auf dem Deutschen Archäologenkongress in Mannheim 2008 (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 194) Bonn 2010, 69–94.


• Home sweet home, czyli jak mieszkali Mykeńczycy, in: J. Kolendo, Lewartowski, K. Szymczak (eds.), Blisko i daleko. Księga jubileuszowa Instytutu Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2009, 159–166.


• Ognisko domowe - pomieszczenia z paleniskami w architekturze mieszkalnej okresu wczesnohelladzkiego [Hearth and Home – Rooms with Hearths in Early Helladic Domestic Architecture], Studia i materiały archeologiczne 11, 2003 (2004), 141–156.


• House - Settlement - Province. Social Space in Middle- and Late Helladic Korakou and Corinthia, Światowit 5 [XLVI, Fasc. A], 2003, 69–90.


• Mycenaean settlement patterns in the Saronic Gulf, Światowit 4 [XLV, Fasc. A], 2002 (2003), 179–193.


• Fireside – Rooms with Hearths in Early Helladic Non-Monumental Domestic Architecture, Światowit 4 [XLV, Fasc. A], 2002 (2003), 173–178.


• Jak mieszkali starożytni? Dom i życie codzienne we wczesnym okresie epoki brązu na terenie Grecji Lądowej [How did the Ancients Live? Home and Every-day Life in Early Bronze Age in Mainland Greece], Meander 5-6, 2002, 513–525.

• The economics of textiles in Bronze Age Greece, in: M.S. Busana, M. Gleba, F. Meo (eds.), Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. VI Purpureae Vestes International Symposium, Padua, Italy, 17-20 October, 2016 (with A. Ulanowska)


• Craftspeople, craftsmanship and textile production in Early Bronze Age Greece, in: K. Sarri, L. Quillien (eds.), Textile workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between Prehistoric Aegean and Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the 10th ICAANE, 25. April 2016, Vienna. OREA International Series.

• 27. Archeologia egejska. Podręcznik [The Aegean archaeology. A Handbook], written in 2008–2009 [with K. Lewartowski, A. Ulanowska]

• First Textiles. The Beginnings of textile manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of a session ‘Textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE’ (the 20th European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Istanbul, 13th September 2014), and of a conference ‘First Textiles’ (University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2015), eds. M. Siennicka, L. Rahmstorf, A. Ulanowska (Ancient Textile Series, Oxbow Books)