Serengeti – the Motherland of Humankind

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May 19 2026

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Museum of Engineering and Technology in Krakow – Main Stage (Hall F)

Św. Wawrzyńca 15, 31-060 Kraków

Archaeologists Prof. Marta Osypińska and Dr. Piotr Osypiński are conducting research on the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, within the Great Rift Valley — a key region for research on human evolution. This is where the people who replaced Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia may have lived. We’ll discuss who they were, how they lived, and whether their traces help us understand why our species dominated the world?

Piotr Osypiński

Piotr Osypiński is an archaeologist by training (PhD 2017, Adam Mickiewicz University) and passion. He currently works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology o…

Marta Osypińska

Prof. Marta Osypińska, PhD, DSc – the first woman to hold the title of professor of archaeology at the University of Wrocław and in Polish African archaeology – is an archaeozoologist speciali…

Łukasz Kwiatek

A philosopher and cognitive scientist at the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Research and editor of the Science section of the Weekly, he is interested in two of the most unusual featu…