Julita Rękawek-Teixeira is the Research Project Administrative Coordinator of INASIA. She supports the team in the everyday organisation of the project, helping to connect scientific work with the practical structures that make research possible: planning, documentation, coordination, reporting, communication and administrative procedures.
Her role in INASIA brings together two sides of her professional life. Julita has many years of experience in project coordination, procurement and working with international teams. At the same time, she is an archaeologist and cultural educator interested in how people in the past understood and expressed their world. This combination helps her support INASIA both from the organisational and research side. Because of her archaeological background, she understands the questions the project is trying to answer, not just the processes behind it.
She has a strong interest in prehistoric art, particularly rock art. Her research questions focus on how and why humans began to create art and use symbols, and in what other fields, from cognitive science and neuroscience to palaeoenvironmental research, can bring to these questions. After several years away from academic research, she is now returning to archaeology, exploring Palaeolithic art, symbolic behaviour, human cognition, and how people responded to a changing world.
Education & Research
Julita holds an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Her master’s research focused on archaic rock art of the Southwestern United States. She also holds a BA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, where her research concerned the iconography of Tibetan Buddhism.
Julita has archaeological field and research experience from Poland, Syria and the United States. She participated in fieldwork at Szestno Site II – Bird Island in Poland, at Tell Qaramel in Syria, and at various archaeological sites in the Mazovia region. Between 2002 and 2007, she carried out research in the United States, collecting, documenting and analysing materials for her master’s thesis on American rock art.
Beyond INASIA, Julita is the creator of Archeopasja, an educational project devoted to archaeology, art and culture. She is also a volunteer guide at the National Museum in Warsaw, where she shares stories about selected objects in the Gallery of Ancient Art and helps visitors discover the meanings behind ancient artefacts.
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