Andrzej Rozwadowski
Keywords: prehistoric rock art; archaeoacoustics; sacred landscapes; outreach.
Andrzej Rozwadowski is associated professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań where he obtained his Ph.D. in archaeology (1999).
His habilitation degree resulted in the book Images from the Past: Hermeneutics of Rock Art (2009).
He has researched on rock art research for more than twenty-five years. He has undertaken fifteen expeditions to study rock art sites and has led four research projects on this topic, publishing on the rock art of Central Asia and Siberia.
His research has focused on Siberian shamanism and rock art and his ideas have been recently summarized in the book Rocks, Crack and Drums: In Search of Ancient Shamanism in Siberia and Central Asia (2017). He has also contributed to two international exhibitions on shamanism in Hungary.
He is the head of the project Rock art as a source of contemporary cultural identity, and is also involved in the project documenting rock art in Toro Muerto in Peru.
He is particularly interested in the potential of using ethnographic data to interpret rock art.
He has contributed with articles to the following publications: The Archaeology of Shamanism (Routledge 2001), A Companion to Rock Art (Wiley-Blackwell 2012) and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (Oxford University Press 2019).
He was visiting Fulbright scholar at the Arizona State University and visiting fellow at the Rock Art Research Institute at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Rozwadowski, A. (2017). Rocks, Cracks and Drums. In Search of Ancient Shamanism in Siberia and Central Asia. Budapest: Molnar & Kelemen.
Rozwadowski, A. (2017). Travelling Through the Rock to the Otherworld: The Shamanic ‘Grammar of Mind’Within the Rock Art of Siberia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(3), 413-432.
Rozwadowski, A. (2018). Rock Art of Northern, Central, and Western Asia. In B. David & I. J. McNiven (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rozwadowski, A., & Kosko, M. M. (Eds.). (2002). Spirits and Stones. Shamanism and Rock Art in Central Asia and Siberia. Poznan: Instytut Wschodni UAM.