Anna Józefowska-Domańska is an archaeologist specialising in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Central Europe, with particular emphasis on funerary practices, social differentiation, and long-term cemetery use. She has extensive experience in the analysis of large, multi-phase burial grounds and in the integration of archaeological data with bioarchaeological and physicochemical research.

Her research provides the archaeological and chronological framework for the entire project, including the development of refined internal periodisation, the interpretation of burial practices, and the definition of social status indicators within the cemetery.

A central focus of her research is the transformation of social structures at the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, including changing expressions of elite identity, mobility, and ritual behaviour. Through long-term engagement with the Domasław cemetery, she has contributed significantly to re-evaluating the role of southwestern Poland within wider Hallstatt cultural networks.

Her academic profile and full list of publications are available via: https://pan-pl.academia.edu/AnnaJozefowska and https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-7166.

Bogumiła Wolska, PhD

Specialist Researcher

Bogumiła Wolska is a bioarchaeologist specialising in the study of burned human remains. Her main research focuses on past cremation practices and mobility patterns in prehistory. An important part of her work involves refining analytical methods for the study of thermally altered human remains, as well as investigating diagenetic processes affecting bones during their long-term deposition in burial soil environments.

Within the framework of the Domasław Project, Bogumiła will carry out FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) analyses of cremated human remains. The aim of her research is to provide insight into mortuary practices, with particular emphasis on the combustion stage. The results of the FTIR analysis will form a basis for assessing whether cremation practices were applied uniformly to individuals buried at Domasław or varied according to the social status of the deceased. It will also enable the identification of changes in the cremation process over time.

Bogumiła will also contribute to strontium isotope and osteological analyses.

Her academic record and list of publications are available on her ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-557X.

Adam Budziszewski, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Adam Budziszewski is a bioarchaeologist specialising in cremation burial practices. His research focuses on Late Bronze Age and Iron Age communities in Central Europe, alongside comparative work on pre-Columbian societies of western Mexico and the desert regions along the present-day United States–Mexico border.
His work is grounded in post-processual theoretical approaches, with particular emphasis on funerary practices as expressions of collective memory, social identity, and cosmological beliefs. He investigates how mortuary rituals articulate social relationships and contribute to the construction of community and its perceived place in the world.

Within the project, he is responsible for stable strontium isotope analyses aimed at reconstructing patterns of mobility, locality, and non-locality among individuals buried at Domasław. His research contributes to identifying broader networks of interaction and movement and to interpreting mobility in relation to social status and funerary behaviour.

In addition to his scientific work, Adam is actively engaged in the public dissemination of archaeology. He regularly publishes popular science articles and has recently expanded his outreach activities to include podcasting as a medium for communicating archaeological research to wider audiences.

His academic record and list of publications are available on his ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8375-8818.

Adrianna Niźnik-Karmowska, PhD Candidate

Doctoral Scholarship Holder

Adrianna Niźnik-Karmowska holds degrees in archaeology and religious studies from the Jagiellonian University and has completed postgraduate training in forensic anthropology at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. She is currently pursuing a PhD in archaeology at the Jagiellonian University, with her doctoral research focusing on funerary practices of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in the Southern Levant.

Within the grant-funded project, she is responsible for the osteological examination of cremated human remains from the Domasław cemetery. Her work contributes directly to the reconstruction of biological profiles and to the interpretation of funerary practices within a broader bioarchaeological and cultural framework.

Her research interests centre on ritual and religious practices, particularly in the societies of the ancient Near East, as well as on wider systems of belief related to death, burial, and the afterlife. In parallel, she maintains a strong scholarly interest in early Christian traditions and Coptic religious culture, which inform her comparative and interdisciplinary approach to mortuary archaeology.