Agnieszka Mączyńska, PhD (dr hab.), archaeologist, curator at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, researcher specialising in the archaeology of Egypt from the Neolithic period to the beginning of the Old Kingdom, ceramologist, author of numerous scientific and popular science publications on the prehistory and earliest history of Egypt, member of archaeological expeditions working at archaeological sites in Egypt in Tell el-Farkha (Nile Delta), in Merimde Beni Salama (Nile Delta), Naqada (Upper Egypt), and Bargat el-Shab (Western Desert). Since 2004 head of the Museum’s Department of Exhibitions and Education; curator of numerous exhibitions at the Museum.

Bibliography 

• Mączyńska A., 2018, In Search of the Origins of Lower Egyptian Pottery: A New Approach to Old Data, Studies in African Archaeology, vol. 16, Poznań.
• Mączyńska A., 2020, Shaky foundation of the Egyptian civilisation. Response article to Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis by E. Christiana Köhler, Vienna, Ägypten & Levante / Egypt & the Levant 30: 95-100.
• Mączyńska A., 2020, Revolution(s) in Egypt. Over a Century of Research on the Egyptian Neolithic, (w:) Joanne M. Rowland, Giulio Lucarin (eds.), Geoffrey J. Tassie, Revolutions. The Neolithisation of the Mediterranean Basin: the Transition to Food Producing Economies in North Africa, Southern Europe and the Levant | Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 68: 159-170.
• Mączyńska A., 2020, Recent Research on Neolithic and Predynastic Development in the Egyptian Nile Valley, Archeologia Polona 58: 235-243.
• Mączyńska A., 2020, Clayton ring from Bargat El-Shab (Western Desert, Egypt), Fontes Archaeologici Posnanienses 56: 85-95.
• Mączyńska A., 2021, The Lower Egyptian culture – last 20 years of research, (w:) N. Buchez & Y. Tristant (eds), Égypte antérieure. Mélanges de préhistoire et d’archéologie offerts à Béatrix Midant-Reynes par ses étudiants, collègues et amis pour son 70e anniversaire. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 304, Leuven: 561-576.
• Mączyńska A., 2021, Regularised Pottery Production in Lower Egypt in the Second Half of 4th Millennium BCE, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 39: 103157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103157.
• Mączyńska A., 2021, The origin of Neolithic pottery in Lower Egypt. The Eastern Sahara hypothesis, (w:) E.C. Kohler,N. Kuch, F. Junge, Jeske A.-K. (red.), Egypt at its Origins 6 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference « Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt », Vienna, 10th – 15th September 2017; Orientalia Lovaniensia Analacta 303: 431-452.
• Mączyńska A., 2021, Bargat El-Shab pottery. Seasons 2018-2019, (w:) P. Bobrowski, M. Jórdeczka, (red.), Awaiting the rain. Early and Middle Holocene Prehistory of Bargat El-Shab Playa on Western Desert of Egypt, Poznań-Warszawa: 299-311.
• Mączyńska A., 2022 Re-examination of Predynastic pottery from Minshat Abu Omar (Nile Delta, Egypt). X-ray studies on forming techniques. Studies in Ancient Art And Civilisation 25: 55-72.
• Mączyńska A., 2022, Fayumian Pottery Tradition. A preliminary study on the assemblage from Trench 1 at site E29H2 (Kom W), Fayum, ArcheoNil 32: 73-103.
• Mączyńska A., 2023, Onset of the Lower Egyptian cultural complex at Tell el-Farkha in the context of the emergence of beer technology in the Nile Delta, (w:) Kabaciński, J., Kabacińska-Winiarska, M., Chłodnicki, M. (eds.), Society and Subsistence in the Prehistory of Northeastern Africa. Papers in honour of Romuald Schild, Studies in African Archaeology 17, Poznań: 47-72.
• Mączyńska A., 2023, Last 100 years of research on the origins of the Lower Egyptian Neolithic communities, (w:) O. el-Aguizy, B. Kasparian (red.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE XII) Cairo, Egypt, November 3rd – 8th, 2019, Cairo: 587-594.

Keywords
Predynastic  period, Lower Egyptian culture, naqada culture, pottery studies