Arkadiusz Marciniak

Professor

Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University

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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BOOKS

Marciniak, A., Pawleta, M. & Raczkowski W. (eds). 2025. The Poznan School of Archaeology. The Origin, Growth and Significance. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer

Marciniak, A., Zalewska, A.I., Cyngot, D., Iwaniszewski, S., Kowalewska-Marszalek, H. & Stepniowski, F.M. (eds.), 2024. Leksykon terminów archeologicznych. Kraków: Universitas.

Kajda, K., Kobialka, D. & Marciniak, A. (eds.) 2022. Archeologia wspólnotowa – poznajac przeszlosc, nie zapominajac o terazniejszosci. Kraków: Universitas

Pawleta, M., Marciniak, A. (eds.). 2021. Dziedzictwo kulturowe w kontekscie wyzwan zrównowazonego rozwoju. Kraków: Universitas & Oddzial Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Poznaniu.

Marciniak, A. (ed.). 2019. Concluding the Neolithic. The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium BC. Atlanta: Lockwood Press.

Piskin, E., Marciniak, A., Bartkowiak, M. (eds.). 2018. Environmental Archaeology. Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York: Springer.

Marciniak, A. 2018. Placing Animals in the Neolithic. Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities. Routledge: New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315422619

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 Publishers

Hodder, I. & Marciniak, A. (eds.). 2015. Assembling Çatalhöyük. Leeds: Maney Publishing.

Marciniak, A., Liibert K., Wachowicz L., Malinska, M. 2014. Discovering the Archaeologists of Poland 2012-14. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University.

ARTICLES

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.2025.30.01

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.2024.101573

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.2209480119

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.2109325118

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-2022-2041

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-2022-0238

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: 10.1080/20518196.2021.2014697

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/10.1080/00934690.2021.1909279