Dr Dominika Sieczkowska-Jacyna is currently on sabbatical working at the Silesian University of Technology, at the Institute of Physics, Radiocarbon Laboratory in Gliwice. Previously she held the position of Deputy Director of Research at the Centre for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw.
dr Dominika Sieczkowska-Jacyna
Specialization:
Andean archaeology, Inca architecture, Inca water cult, radiocarbon dating, Andean ethnohistory.
Bio:
Dominika Sieczkowska gained experience in excavations at archaeological sites in Poland, Italy, and Peru. The first excavations in which she participated in South America were carried out at the archaeological site of Maucallacta (Pampacolca) in the Arequipa region, Peru, which were directly related to her undergraduate thesis. Her interest in the ethnohistory of the region resulted in the creation of her master's thesis: Inca and Colonial Pampacolca (Arequipa Region, Peru): A Settlement and Social Structure in Light of Archaeological and Historical Data. Since 2015 she has been associated with the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu (Parque Arqueológico Nacional de Machupicchu), where she carries out the research on the Inca cult of water using the archaeological sites located within PANM as an example. As of 2017, she is a PhD student at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. She is a long-time fellow at the Scientific Station of the University of Warsaw in Cusco.
Research and Teaching:
Dr. Dominika Sieczkowska-Jacyna is currently researching the water cult of the Incas using as an example the sites located within the Machupicchu National Archaeological Park in Peru. For the implementation of his research in 2016, he received funding from the Polish National Science Center as part of the PRELUDIUM 10 competition (No. 2015/19/N/HS3/03626) entitled “Armakuna: ritual functions of the Inca “baths” in the example of the ceremonial archaeological site of Chachabamba (Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary, Peru). » Since 2015 associated with the Research Program in Machupicchu, and since 2016 on behalf of the Center for Andean Studies of the University of Warsaw in Cusco, it has carried out excavations at the archaeological site of Chachabamba in cooperation with the Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Research Program in the Historical Sanctuary of Machupicchu.
Publications:
Sieczkowska D. (2021) The "phaqchas" of Chachabamba (National Archaeological Park of Machupicchu, Peru), Arqueología Iberoamericana 47: 91-101.
Masini N., Copozzoli L., Romano G., Sieczkowska D., Sileo M., Bastante JM, Astete Victoria F., Ziółkowski M., Lasaponara R. (2020) Archaeogeophysics applied to Inca archaeology: the case of the archaeological monument Chachabamba [in:] MACHUPICCHU INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATIONS, vol. 2, F. Astete, JM Quite (eds.).
Sieczkowska D. (2020) Investigations in the Chachabamba archaeological monument. [in:] MACHUPICCHU INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATIONS, vol. 2, F. Astete, JM Quite (eds.).
Ziółkowski M., Abuhadba JB, Hogg A., Sieczkowska D., Rakowski A., Pawlyta J., Manning SW (2020) When did the Incas build Machu Picchu and its satellite sites? New approaches based on radiocarbon dating, Radiocarbon, 1-15. DOI 10.1017/RDC.2020.79
Sieczkowska D., Sobczyk M. (2018) Between ethnohistory and archaeology, the case of the Pampacolca region (Castilla, Arequipa). [in:] Proceedings I International Congress of Archeology of the Central South Andean Area in Arequipa: 266-274.
Masini N., Capozzoli L., Romano G., Sieczkowska D., Sileo M., Bastante J., Astete F., Ziółkowski M., Lasaponara R. (2018) Archaeogeophysical-based approach for Inca archaeology: Overview and one operational applications, Surveys in Geophysics, 39(6): 1239-1262. DOI 10.1007/s10712-018-9502-2.
Sieczkowska D., Amado Gonzales D. (2017) The Vaca de Castro Ordinances – 1543, Latin American Studies 36/37: 177–188.
Sieczkowska D. (2015) Wstępne studio nad księgą chrztów z Pampacolki w regionie Arequipy, Peru, Studia i eseje amerykanistyczne 2015: 29-43.
Sieczkowska D. (2015) Studies on the baptism book of the people of Pampacolca – Arequipa, Peru, Latin American Studies 36: 161-176.