During the next three years, she will analyse and interpret graves with eggshells, feather remains, and bird bones dated to the Viking Age discovered in Scandinavia and in the British Isles.
In her PhD thesis, she will also compare the conclusions emerging from the analysis of archaeological finds from funerary and other contexts with the meanings of birds in medieval
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Klaudia has her Master’s degree in archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów. In 2016, she defended her Master’s thesis entitled „Uzbrojenie z IX – XI wieku z terenu północno-zachodniej Polski w kontekście wodnym” (Eng. Weaponry from the 9th to 11th Centuries from Watery Locations in North-Western Poland) which concerns weapons (i.e. arrows, axes, spears, swords) discovered in lakes and rivers of north-western Poland.
In the last few years she worked on two short-term research projects concerning the meaning of birds in Viking Age mortuary practices and beliefs. In 2017, Klaudia was awarded DAAD grant for the short-term research stays. From July to September, she worked on the project “Birds in Viking Age Mortuary Practices”. During this project, she collected details of Viking Age graves with bird remains discovered in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In November 2018 at the Swedish History Museum, Klaudia conducted a short research project entitled “Eggs and Bones: Bird Remains in Viking Age Cremation Graves from Sweden” which was kindly supported by the Viking Society for Northern Research. The aim of this short research stay was to collect and analyse Viking Age cremation graves with bird remains documented in Sweden.
Moreover, in 2015 and from October 2017 to August 2018, Klaudia was an Erasmus+ student at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Kiel, Germany. She studied prehistorical archaeology, underwater archaeology and Viking Age archaeology.
Klaudia’s main research interests are funerary archaeology, Viking Age archaeology, zooarchaeology, human-animal relations in the past and experimental archaeology.