Professor Michał Kobusiewicz passed away on October 21st, 2024, at the age of 85. He worked at the Museum of Archaeology in Poznań from 1959 to 1965. Following that, he continued his career at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań until his retirement in 2009. In addition, he lectured on the prehistory of Europe and Africa at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
The professor was a long-time member of UISPP, member of its Honorary Committee and a founder and long-time president of the Commission on Late Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia. For many years, he conducted excavations in Greater Poland at Stone Age sites. He directed research in Egypt as part of the Dakhleh Oasis Project and participated in the work of The Combined Prehistoric Expedition, an international mission operating in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
He participated in countless excavations in Poland, France, North America, and Africa. Kobusiewicz considered his work in Africa to be the most important of his career, where he investigated, among other things, a cult center in the Western Desert of Egypt and previously unknown cave art in Sudan.
He was the author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, including several monographs, numerous articles, and popular science works.
Michał Kobusiewicz was extremely sociable, full of optimism, and easy to befriend.
We will miss him...