Our Team.
Dr Katie McCullough French
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR & ZOOARCHAEOLOGIST
Katie is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology & Religion at the University of Cardiff. She is also the principal investigator for the Horizon 2020-funded Baltic Paganism, Osteology, and New Evidence from Zooarchaeology (BONEZ) project, supervised by Dr Richard Madgwick.
frenchk@cardiff.ac.uk
Professor Maciej Karczewski
FIELDWORK DIRECTOR
Maciej is a professor in the History Faculty at the University of Białystok. Along with Dr Karczewska, he directed excavations at Paprotki Kolonia from 2001-2009.
Dr Małgorzata Karczewska
FIELDWORK DIRECTOR
Małgorzata is an archaeologist at the Research Center of Eastern and Central Europe in Białystok. Along with Professor Karczewski, she directed excavations at Paprotki Kolonia from 2001-2009.
Professor Aleksander Pluskowski
SPECIAL ADVISOR
Aleks is a professor of medieval archaeology at the University of Reading and the principal investigator for the AHRC-funded Landscapes of (Re)conquest project. He brings extensive experience in the region as the past director of the ERC-funded project Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Conquest, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic (2010-2014).
Dr Rowena Banerjea
GEOARCHAEOLOGIST
Rowena is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Reading working on the AHRC-funded Landscapes of (Re)conquest project. She previously worked as the geoarchaeologist for the ERC-funded project Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Conquest, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic (2010-2014).
Our Analytical Partners
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CELTIC, Department of Earth Sciences, Cardiff University
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McDonald Professor in Palaeoproteomics, McDonald Institute, Cambridge University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
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CELTIC, Department of Earth Sciences, Cardiff University
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Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
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National Research Institute of Animal Production, Kraków