Department of the archaeology of landscape and archaeobiology

Head of the department: PhDr. Dagmar Dreslerová

The main scope of the department lies in studies regarding the biological variability of the Man, his environment in the past, and the cultural landscape formation as a frame of society’s existence. It gathers researchers specialized in anthropology, archaeogenetic, environmental archaeology (archaeolozoology, macroremains and pollen analysis), and spatial and non-destructive archaeology (including geophysics and aerial survey), and the GIS. In addition to its own research, the department coordinates mutual cooperation between scientific and archaeological branches, and shares the education in BC, MA and postdoctoral studies of accredited branches of archaeology, paleoecology, anthropology, and human genetics. Department also participates in the Czech Radiocarbon Laboratory operation.

Main research themes:

  • Cultural landscape development, prehistoric agriculture and other productive activities as landscape-formative factors;
  • Vegetation dynamic during the postglacial, and the plant utilization (both cultural and wild-grown plants) by humans;
  • Biological variability, paleodemography, paleopathology of prehistorical and Early Medieval populations;
  • Application and envolvement of molecular genetic methods for studies of the evolution of human, societies, and culture (DNA-analysis of Man, animals, plants, microbes, etc.); phylogeography;
  • Influence of the life style (demography) on genetic structure (herdsmen vs. farmers);
  • Role and utilization of dommesticated and wild animals in the prehistorical communities; paleogeographical, paleoecological, and morphometrical aspects of archaeozoology;
  • Field survey and development of the non-destructive archaeological methods (aerial archaeology, geophysics, field walking);
  • Predictive modelling and GIS application in archaeology;
  • Spatial structure of settlement ranges.

Branches:

  • Anthropology and paleopathology
  • Archaeobotanics and paleoecology
  • Archaeogenetics
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Archaeozoology
  • Geophysics
  • Aerial archaeology

Specialists and scientific staff:

Mgr. Černý Viktor Ph.D.
Ing. Čišecký Čeněk
RNDr. Čulíková Věra CSc.
Mgr. Danielisová Alžběta
PhDr. Dreslerová Dagmar
doc. PhDr. Gojda Martin CSc.
Mgr. Hájek Martin Ph.D.
Kornová Alena
RNDr. Křivánek Roman
PhDr. Kuna Martin DSc.
Mgr. Kyselý René
MUDr. Likovský Jakub Ph.D.
Megisová Natália
Prof. PhDr. Neustupný Evžen CSc.
Mgr. Pokorný Petr Ph.D.
Ing. Ryska František
RNDr. Stránská Petra
Šenková Petra
Trojánková Olga
PhDr. Venclová Natalie DrSc.