Head of the Department of Archaeology
Head of the Department of Archaeology
He is interested in experimental archaeology, the development of methodology for the study of pottery-making technologies on the basis of archaeological sources and its application and the anthropology of technology.
e. richard.ther@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 533
Office No. 20250
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Secretary of the Department of Archaeology
He professionally deals with research topics associated with the period of the Late Middle Ages and modern times. He focuses on the issues related to the investigations of fortified residences, the study of the transformation of the cultural landscape during the Middle Ages and modern times, as well as the cognition of material culture and everyday life during the Middle Ages and modern times.
e. pavel.drnovsky@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 546
Office No. 20240
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Chairman of the doctoral programme subject committee
He is involved in studies of the Neolithic and activities related to this period (seafaring in the Mediterranean Sea, manufacturing technologies for the production of ground stone tools, problems of relative dating of Neolithic settlements with formative processes). His understanding of the above issues has been influenced by the implementation of the Monoxylon expeditions, activities of the Archaeopark of Prehistory, the processing of the Neolithic excavations at Mohelnice and the rescue excavation at Obědovice. This was especially due to the specific degree of preservation or the formative process behind the creation of the contents of feature fills at both sites.
e. radomir.tichy@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 518
Office No. 20220
Assistant of the Department of Archeology
e. magdalena.fiserova@uhk.cz
t. +420 705 772 195
Office hours:
Office No. 20260
Professors and Associate Professors
Assistant professor
He addresses the issues of hunter-gatherer societies of the Pleistocene and Holocene periods with emphasis on a combination of approaches derived from humanities and natural sciences on a long-term basis. In recent years, he deals with the history of landscape development and the methodology of archaeological excavations. He investigates settlements of hunters near South Bohemian lakes (Švarcenberg, Tisý), Gravettian sites at Lubná, rock shelters of the Bohemian Paradise and the Neolithic mining area at Jistebsko.
e. petr.sida@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 544
Office No. 20230
AcademiaEduShe specializes in the problems of the Bronze Age, especially of the Middle and Late ones, including the aspects of the history of research, she is also interested in the development and principles of prehistoric architecture and the protection of archaeological heritage.
e. zuzana.blahova@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 544
Office No. 20230
AcademiaEdu
He obtained his academic qualifications in Barcelona and Bologna, and gained experience as a post-doc researcher in Olomouc, Copenhagen, Paris, Turin, and Mainz. His main area of expertise is the archaeology of South-Western Europe during the 4th-9th century, with a special focus on funerary archaeology and metal small finds. He has researched a number of issues related to mobility, fashion dissemination, identity, social organization, spatial analysis, topography, economy, trade, and craftsmanship.
e. jpinarg@msn.com
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He focuses on the archaeology of the Early Middle Ages (burial rite, central sites, material culture), the archaeology of the landscape and the archaeology of warfare in modern times.
e. petr.hejhal.2@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 546
Office No. 20240
AcademiaEdu
He studied archaeology (2007) and physical geography (2010) at Charles university in Prague. Then PhD in Ecology (2016; Czech University of Life Sciences) and PhD in Archaeology (2018; Charles University).
His topic in archaeology is in human – environment relationship. In this research direction, he is focusing on two topics: humans and soils in the past – especially agricultural impact on soils – and the contamination of the environment by risk elements coming from past mining and smelting activities. He tend to study medieval epoch and environmental archaeology. Methodically, he mainly deals with soils, landscape, written sources and geochemistry.
e. jan.horak.3@uhk.cz
He deals with the issues of the Iron Age in central Europe. His principal research topics include the questions of pottery production and pottery kilns of the La Tène period. He also specializes in the study of interregional contacts, military topics, architecture and material culture of the above period.
e. tomas.mangel@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 331 533
Office No. 20250
AcademiaEduResearch positions
Deals with new methods of studying chipped and other stone industries in the Epipaleolithic in the Far East and the Mesolithic in Europe. He regularly participates in foreign expeditions, especially paleolithic research in northern Israel (Jordan River Dureijat, Gesher Benot Ya’aqov). In your work, focus on learning about the life of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Bohemian Paradise.
e. ourodan1@uhk.cz
She graduated in archaeology from the universities of Hradec Králové and Bratislava. Her research focuses on the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe, particularly on the study of settlements and their spatial and functional organization. She employs methods such as geoinformatics, statistics, radiocarbon dating, and use-wear analysis to determine their inner economy. She also specializes in the analysis of metal artefacts, primarily objects made of copper and its alloys from the Early Bronze Age, focusing on their production, function, and surface treatments.
https://uhk.academia.edu/EvaSchimerova
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva-Schimerova
e. eva.schimerova@uhk.cz
Centre of field archaeology
Head of the Centre
He deals with the issues of archaeological monument care and the methodology of archaeological excavations. He also devotes himself to the issues of spatial and landscape archaeology, the archaeology of warfare in modern times, and Iron Age society.
e. ladislav.rytir@uhk.cz
t. +420 735 702 315; +420 493 331 554
Assistant of the Centre
e. jitka.trzicka@uhk.cz
t. +420 724 803 265
Assistant of the Centre
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of West Bohemia. She is currently specialising in political anthropology as part of her Master’s degree at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.
e. magdalena.fiserova@uhk.cz
t. +420 705 772 195
Field excavation unit
Chief Archaeologist
Graduate of master’s degree of Archaeology and History at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. She foccuses of settlement strategy in Early Iron Age in Central Moravia. She is also interested in Early Modern Period reenactment.
e. sylva.bambasova@uhk.cz
t. +420 705 772 190
Graduate of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. He focuses on the Neolithic period, mainly on the younger phases of the Lengyel culture.
e. dominik.decky@uhk.cz
t. +420 705 772 209
Graduate of MA in Prehistoric Near Eastern Archaeology at the Masaryk University in Brno. He deals with issues of the Hyksos Enigma in the Second Intermediate Period. He is also interested in Iron Age in the Caucasus region. He participated in several foreign archaeological excavations in Armenia, Egypt, Israel, Oman and Turkey.
e. jan.marko@uhk.cz
Graduated from the Department of Archeology at Charles University in Prague. Her interests are the topic of stove tiles and pottery production in eastern Slovakia.
e. kitty.solteszova@uhk.cz
Graduate of Bachelor’s and Master’s studies in archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. He focuses on the problems of the La Tène period, especially in the Orlice river basin.
e. petr.vrana@uhk.cz
Geochemical Laboratory
Head of Geochemical Laboratory
He studied archaeology (2007) and physical geography (2010) at Charles university in Prague. Then PhD in Ecology (2016; Czech University of Life Sciences) and PhD in Archaeology (2018; Charles University).
His topic in archaeology is in human – environment relationship. In this research direction, he is focusing on two topics: humans and soils in the past – especially agricultural impact on soils – and the contamination of the environment by risk elements coming from past mining and smelting activities. He tend to study medieval epoch and environmental archaeology. Methodically, he mainly deals with soils, landscape, written sources and geochemistry.
e. jan.horak.3@uhk.cz
Jan Fišer worked as a ferryman at the Městská plovárna in Pilsen. Then he studied archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Currently, he is interested in the influence of past human activities in the contemporary landscape as part of his PhD study at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prag.
e. jan.fiser@uhk.cz
The graduated cook and graduate of archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. In his final thesis he focused on the rock environment of Bohemian Paradise in the younger prehistoric period. At the Centre for Field Archaeology of the UHK he works as a field technician and laboratory technician in the environmental department, but also as a laboratory technician processing CT and 3D scans of pottery.
e. jan.plisek@uhk.cz
Laboratory technician of the Environmental Department, works with the collected samples and prepares them for further analysis. She is currently studying archeology at FF UHK.
e. nikola.rybenska.2@uhk.cz
Laboratory technician of the Environmental Department, works with the collected samples and prepares them for further analysis. She is currently studying archeology at FF UHK.
e. irena.supukova@uhk.cz
A graduate of the bachelor’s program in archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. As part of his thesis, he focuses on the identification of remains of production sites through environmental analyses.
e. jan.suransky@uhk.cz
Findings Processing Laboratory
Head of the Lab
Scientific Coordinator
She specializes in preventive conservation of archaeological finds and the methodology for handling finds in the field. In the field of conservation practice, she focuses on the conservation of ceramics, objects made of copper and its alloys, and objects made of hard animal materials.
e. eva.schimerova@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 822; +420 776 720 853
Deputy Head, Environmental Laboratory
Graduate of bachelor’s studies in the field of palaeobiology and subsequent master’s and doctoral studies in the field of palaeontology at the Comenius University in Bratislava. She specializes in archaeozoology – in the analysis of osteological zoological material from archaeological and paleontological (Quaternary) localities.
e. maria.novotna@uhk.cz
Deputy Head, Finds Processing
Graduate of the master´s degree in Archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. She focuses on the funeral rites in the early Middle Ages – especially in Eastern Bohemia.
e. tereza.janakova@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 825
Graduate of the master’s degree in Archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. As part of her studies and diploma thesis, she dealt with medieval material culture in Eastern Bohemia.
e. anezka.dragounova@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 825
Graduated from the field of conservation-restoration of works of art made of metals and the field of technology of conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects at the Technical University of Technology in Prague. It deals with technological research, restoration and reconstruction of objects made of common and precious metals and accompanying materials.
e.vaclav.gerstner@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 822
She graduated in Furniture Design at Mendel University in Brno. She focuses on drawing, photography and 3D documentation of archaeological finds.
e.anna.horakova.2@uhk.cz
Graduate of the Master’s degree in Anthropology at Masaryk University in Brno. She provides the basic analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological excavations and presents anthropology to the general public.
e. marcela.horakova@uhk.cz
e. vaclav.horejs@uhk.cz
She deals with the basic treatment and processing of archaeological finds between excavation and transfer to the museum.
e.michaela.kulhava@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 825
A graduate of the High School of Applied Arts with a focus on textile art. She deals with field archeology as well as she processes environmental samples and documentation of archaeological situations.
e. lucie.ondejcikova@uhk.cz
t. +420 705 772 199
I am a PhD student at the Department of History at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové. I focus on the rural history of Bohemia in the Early Modern Period.
e. jan.satransky@uhk.cz
t. +420 493 332 822
Geoinformatics unit
Head of the CETA unit
She is a graduate of the master’s study of archaeology at FF UHK. Her main focus is on the La Tène period and spatial archaeology using GIS.
e. tereza.kravciv@uhk.cz
Graduate of the bachelor’s degree in Archaeology at the University of Hradec Králové. He is focused on conflict archaeology and early medieval period. He is also interested in metallurgy of copper alloys and related artifact reproduction.
e. antonin.sturm@uhk.cz
Ph.D. students
Topic of her dissertation thesis:
e. vaclav.gerstner@uhk.cz
Topic of her dissertation thesis:
e. frantisek.vecko@uhk.cz
Graduate of the Bachelor’s and subsequent Master’s study program of Archaeology at the Palacký University Olomouc. His interest is focused on the ceramic production of the Early Iron Age, especially in wider region of the Platěnice group (culture) presence, i. e. in eastern Bohemia, and in northern, central and southeastern Moravia.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: The Early Iron Age ceramics in Eastern Bohemia.
e. donthpe1@uhk.cz
Deals with new methods of studying chipped and other stone industries in the Epipaleolithic in the Far East and the Mesolithic in Europe. He regularly participates in foreign expeditions, especially paleolithic research in northern Israel (Jordan River Dureijat, Gesher Benot Ya’aqov). In your work, focus on learning about the life of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Bohemian Paradise.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: Seasonality, subsistence, and mobility in the Mesolithic: a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mesolithic occupation of rockshelters in the Bohemian sandstones.
e.ourodan1@uhk.cz
Graduate of a Master’s programme in Archaeology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: Quantitative analysis of pottery of the Silesian period of the Lusatian urnfields in Eastern Bohemia
e. kamil.koctuch@uhk.cz
Graduate of a Master’s programme in Chemistry and Technology of Materials and a Bachelor’s programme in Technology of Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage Objects from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. Her research topic is low-fired archaeological pottery from the Iron Age, with main focus on investigating the conditions and technology of firing.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: Reconstruction of firing conditions of ceramics in the La Tène period based on the study of chemical and mineralogical properties of archaeological ceramics
e. karolina.kralova@uhk.cz
A graduate of Archeology at Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové. He investigates on the migration period in Bohemia, especially the 5th century.
Topic of his dissertation thesis: Danubian cultural influences in the Vinařice group
e. jakub.citterbard@uhk.cz
A graduate of Archeology at the University of Hradec Králové. He investigates funerary practices from the end of the Hillfort period and the High Middle Ages. Since 2013 he has participated in an excavation at the Nesvětice site. He has also shared guidance in the excavation as an archeologist under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Prague since 2019.
Topic of his dissertation thesis: Medieval burial ground Nesvětice (catastral district Libkovice u Mostu)
e. podhoja1@uhk.cz; podhorsky.h@gmail.com
He deals with the issues of archaeological monument care and the methodology of archaeological excavations. He also devotes himself to the issues of spatial and landscape archeology, the archaeology of warfare in modern times, and Iron Age society.
Topic of his dissertation thesis: Archaeology of the Early Modern Age conflicts in the Jihlava region
e. ladislav.rytir@uhk.cz
AcademiaEduShe graduated in archaeology from the universities of Hradec Králové and Bratislava. Her research focuses on the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe, particularly on the study of settlements and their spatial and functional organization. She employs methods such as geoinformatics, statistics, radiocarbon dating, and use-wear analysis to determine their inner economy. She also specializes in the analysis of metal artefacts, primarily objects made of copper and its alloys from the Early Bronze Age, focusing on their production, function, and surface treatments.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: Possibilities of analyzing the inner economy of an Early Bronze Age Settlement: Case study of Lochenice in Eastern Bohemia
e. eva.schimerova@uhk.cz
A graduate from the Master’s programme at the Department of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové. She specializes in the issues of the La Tène period. She finished her Master’s degree and defended her thesis dealing with the assessment of a La Tène rectangular enclosure near Markvartice. She currently works as an archaeologist/museum curator at the East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice, and as an archaeologist, she is also involved in the excavations associated with the construction of motorway D11 (fieldwork, preparation of excavation reports) for the UHK.
Topic of her dissertation thesis: The settlement at Tuněchody and the early La Tène period in eastern Bohemia
e. tereza.joskova@uhk.cz
Graduate of bachelor’s and master’s studies at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. The dissertation deals with virtual methods and their use in anthropology and archeology. The intention is to create faces of hunter-gatherers from the middle phase of the Upper Paleolithic. In addition to studying at the UHK, he works as a technical worker at the Institute of Archeology, Czech Academy of Science in Brno (Center for Paleolithic and Paleoanthropology in Dolní Věstonice) within the GAČR project “Lovci na sídlišti…”.
Topic of his dissertation thesis: Facial reconstruction of the Gravettian population in Moravia
e. vojtech.zabojnik@uhk.cz