Mgr. Petr Pokorný, Ph.D.
e-mail: pokornyarup.cas.cz
He is a specialist in historical ecology and archaeobotany, studying the natural environment of prehistoric cultures. Apart from cooperating on a series of projects of the Archaeological Institute he is facilitating a post-doctoral project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Development of vegetation and synantropisation of the landscape of the central part of the Bohemian Basin in the course of the holocene).
Selected publications from recent years:
2005 (together with J. Sádlo, P. Hájek, D. Dreslerová, V. Cílek): Krajina a revoluce. Významné přelomy ve vývoji kulturní krajiny Českých zemí. Malá Skála, 247 pp.
2005 (together with J. Sádlo, M. Kaplan, K. Mikolášová, J. Veselý): Paleoenvironmentální výzkum na Vladaři. Archeologické rozhledy 57:57-99.
2005: Role of man in the development of Holocéne vegetation in Central Bohemia. Preslia 77: 113-128.
2004: The effect of local human-impact historie on the development of Holocéne vegetation. Case studies from central Bohemia. In: Gojda M. (ed), Ancienit Landscape, Settlement Dynamics and Non-Destructive Archeology. Academia, Praha. Pp. 171-185.
2004: Postglaciál vegetation distribution in the Czech Republic and its relationship to settlement zones: Review. In: Gojda M. (ed), Ancienit Landscape, Settlement Dynamics and Non-Destructive Archeology. Academia, Praha. Pp. 395-414.
Complete bibliography (PDF)