The scientific interests followed in my research work focus on two subject areas. The first are studies on the hunter-gatherer communities of the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic. My doctoral and dissertation, as well as several articles and book publications as source materials or as summaries, focused on this topic. Besides, since 2009, I have been consistently conducting excavation work in the Lubuskie region and western Wielkopolska (Poland) on sites from the Stone Age (Lubrza, Kopanica, Panowice, Tarnowa and Wilenko). I reported on the results of my work at over a dozen conferences in Poland and abroad.
The topic of flint production of hunter-gatherer communities was also the subject of discussion at the 7th SAKM Flint Workshop in Poznań, of which I was a co-organizer. Moreover, a session that I had helped to organize at the XVII World UISPP Congress w Burgos was devoted to a discussion about the nature of the settlement, chronology and regional diversification of Federmesser communities.
In my research, I place particular emphasis on issues surrounding the relationship between humans and the environment; for that reason, the reconstruction of natural conditions of the Late Glacial and Early Holocene is an integral part of the research projects I am involved in. Thanks to the work conducted in the scope of these projects, it became possible at the Lubrza site to identify the nature of hunter-gather community settlement, its environmental circumstances, as well as to reconstruct the changes in the natural environment on a microregional scale. The achievement of the 4th indirect designation of absolute age (burnt animal bones) on the territory of Poland associated with the Federmesser communities and the documented processing of green plants based on the analysis of flint products (attributed to date only to Neolithic communities) was an undeniable success.
Yet another research issue that is the subject of my studies within the scope of the topic outlined above is the origin and distribution of siliceous raw materials, used in the products of communities from the Late and Middle Stone Age. This matter is reflected in a few publications and international flint workshops and sessions at the international conference in Vilnius, cyclically organized since 2015. Moreover, a research project which I had led, called the Origin and distribution of obsidian in Poland, was devoted to this subject matter.
At this point, I would also like to mention my involvement in a research project led by Professor Przemysław Urbańczyk, for which I had prepared two synthesis articles which provided a study of the Federmesser and Swiderian community settlement in light of the latest knowledge, as well as two other projects led by Professor Michał Kobusiewicz, to examine hunter-gatherer settlement in western Wielkopolska and compile sources from research conducted.
Besides, my stay in Denmark as a part of a stipend from The Salewicz Foundation was devoted to the research of settlement and flint production of Late Glacial hunter-gatherer communities.
The culminating point of my studies in this subject area is my monograph The development of Federmesser culture on the North European Plain (Poznań 2018; in Polish).
In addition to activities associated with academic plans at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology PAS, I had been involved in wide-reaching research led by the Institute over the course of many years. From 1 April 2008 until 30 June 2013, I managed the Archeological Research Rescue Team at the Center for Prehistoric and Medieval Studies of the IAE PAN in Poznań.