Kamil Łukasz Nowak

Dr.

Kamil Łukasz Nowak

Dr.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • RG »Urnfield Culture Networks«

Biographical sketch

Kamil Nowak is an archaeologist specialising in the metallurgy of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central Europe. His research focuses on various aspects of copper-based archaeometallurgy, including provenance studies, technological analysis of production methods, and the examination of manufacturing and use-wear traces on metal artefacts.

He studied prehistoric archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław (Poland). In 2021, he defended his doctoral thesis titled »Organisation of metallurgical production in a selected area of Central Europe during the Urnfield Period«, which explored metallurgical activities in the cross-border region of western Poland and eastern Germany.

From 2021 to 2024, he led a postdoctoral research project at the Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Since January 2025, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, under the Seal of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowships @OeAW 2024 program. He currently leads the project »Metallurgy – Technology – Exchange (MeTEx): Investigating Interconnectivity and a Shape-Based Metal Economy in the Late Bronze Age.«

DETAILED BIOGRAPHY

Research Projects

  • »Metallurgy – Technology – Exchange (MeTEx): Investigating Interconnectivity and a Shape-Based Metal Economy in the Late Bronze Age«

Research interests

  • Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central Europe
  • Archaeometallurgy of copper and its alloys
  • Origin of the metal and interregional contacts
  • Reconstruction of the technological process of bronze casting, analysis of casting workshop equipment
  • Traces of the manufacture and use of the metal artefacts

Publications