V zimním semestru přivítáme na katedře archeologie Dr. Bárbaru Bonora Soriano, která vyučuje na Autonomní univerzitě v Barceloně
Výzkumná témata:
prehistorická archeologie (pohřební praktiky, sociální komplexita a nerovnost ve společnostech doby bronzové v západní Evropě)
Dr. Bárbara Bonora Soriano holds a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and will serve as a visiting professor in the winter semester 2025/2026 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové (UHK). Her research focuses on funerary practices, social complexity, and inequality in Bronze Age prehistoric societies in Western Europe, with special attention to the Argaric culture of south-eastern Iberia and the Unetice group in Central Europe.
Throughout her career, she has participated in excavations at key Argaric sites such as La Bastida and La Almoloya, as well as laboratory work, cataloguing, and analysis of archaeological materials. She has also been actively involved in scientific outreach through guided tours, dramatised tour events, and the creation of educational resources.
Currently, she collaborates with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt. Her work includes archaeological database analysis and the application of statistical methods and GIS to interpret tomb spatial organisation and social dynamics in prehistoric societies.
She has also developed a strong interest in science communication and innovative methods for effectively teaching archaeological knowledge. At UHK, she will teach the course “ArchaeoStats: Death & Data,” where students will learn to apply statistical techniques to analyse funerary data without prior mathematical knowledge, combining theoretical concepts with practical examples.
