Interdisciplinary Lectures

2026

The program for the current year is available here.

2025

• Mikkel Nørtoft (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel): Modelling grave wealth display and inequality in the Czech Corded Ware culture (20 February 2025)
• Solène Denis (CNRS UMR 8068 TEMPS): Lithic Industries of the first Danubian Farmers: Social Structures, Specialization, and Exchange Networks (13 March 2025)
• Martijn A. Wijnhoven (Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno): Clad in rings: European battle shirts from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages (24 April 2025)
• Ian Kuijt (Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA): Much ado about nothing? Reconsidering arguments for Near Eastern Neolithic early urbanism, high population density villages, and population pressure (18 September 2025)
• Peter Milo (FF MUNI): Rezidencia bulharských chánov v Pliske (23 October 2025)
• Ryuzo Fujiyama (School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Tokyo): Between the Subarctic and Subtropical Zones: How Hunter-Gatherers in the Japanese Archipelago Adopted Ceramic Technology During the Late Pleistocene (30 October 2025)
• Irka Hajdas (ETH Zurich): Radiocarbon dating in Medieval Archaeology – Prospects and Limitations (27. 2025)
• Sabina Cvecek (Austrian Academy of Science): X-KIN: Exploring Patterns of Prehistoric Kinship from Socio-Cultural Anthropological Perspectives (4 December 2025)
• Viktória Kiss: Mobility and Trade (Institute of Archaeology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities): Long-distance Connections in the western part of the Carpathian Basin during the 2nd Millennium BC (11 December 2025)

2024

• Carlos G. Santiago-Marrero (Human Ecology and Archaeology – HUMANE, IMF, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain): Beyond the Naked Eye: Microbotanical remains and their contribution to archaeological research (25 January 2024)
• Václav Hrnčíř (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution): Počátky alkoholických nápojů a jejich role při vzniku komplexních společností (7 March 2021)
• Bisserka Gaydarska (Durham Univeristy, United Kingdom): The Varna cemetery – recent advances in archaeological science (21 March 2024)
• Viktor Černý (Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha): Nesoulad subsistencí afrického sahelu a pohled populační genetiky (16 May 2024)
• Jessica Keil – Stefan Gridling (Universität Innsbruck): Bronze Age in Tyrol. Two complementary case studies (23 May 2024)
• Petr Hejhal – Pavel Drnovský (Katedra archeologie Univerzity Hradec Králové): Archeologie novověkého vojenství (30 May 2024)
• Eszter Melis – Nóra Szabó (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology): Social transformations between 2200 and 1400 BC in the Carpathian Social transformations between 2200 and 1400 BC in the Carpathian Basin. Case studies from Western and Central Hungary (10 October 2024)
• Jaroslav Jiřík (Prácheňské muzeum): V záři zlata a drahokamů: Uhrančivé kouzlo granátových šperků pozdní antiky (17 October 2024)
• Petr Floriánek: Padělky raně středověkých militarií (14 November 2024)
• Abdul Hameed (Hazara University Mansehra): Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Pakistan with special reference to the Iron Age Cemeteries from Chitral Valley (21 November 2024)
• Artur Ribeiro (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel): The Sense of an Ending: Understanding Time in Archaeology (28 November 2024)
• Naďa Profantová – Ludmila Barčáková (Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha): Za tajemstvím tismického zlatníka. Komentovaná projekce nového dokumentu (5 December 2024)

2023

• Guillaume Sarah (IRAMAT laboratory, CNRS Univesité d´Orléans): Archaeological precious metals analysis by laser Ablation ICP-MS (9 March 2023)
• Peter Demján (Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha): Digitalizácia veľkých keramických súborov s laserovým profilovačom a bez neho (23 March 2023)
• T. Majerovičová (Laboratoř archeobotaniky a paleoekologie Přírodovědecké fakulty JČU, České Budějovice): Archeologie a etnoarcheologie vesnic jihovýchodního Senegalu (6 April 2023)
• Petr Krištuf (Katedra archeologie FF ZČU, Plzeň): Výzkum eneolitických dlouhých mohyl pod Řípem (20 April 2023)
• Russell Gray (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Head of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution): Triangulating inferences from linguistics, genetics and archaeology in Europe and the Pacific (26 September 2023)
• Helena Březinová (Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, v. v. i.), Milena Bravermanová, Jana Bureš Víchová: Textilie z archeologických výzkumů na Pražském hradě (5 October 2023)
• Brea McCauley (Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada): Prevalence and motivations of finger amputation: Evidence from the ethno-historic, archaeological, and folktale records (19 October 2023)
• Peter Trebsche (Universität Innsbruck): The distribution of copper, salt and iron: recent research on the exploitation of Eastern Alpine resources in prehistory (9 November 2023)
• Vladislav Knoll (Slovanský ústav AV ČR): Mnohojazyčnost ve středověku (23 November 2023)

2022

• Zuzana Hofmanová (Department of Archaeogenetics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Department of Archaeology and Museology Masaryk University Brno): Identitu nemáme v genech (ale příbuznost ano): uplatnění archeogenetiky v archeologii (18 March 2022)
• Jernej Rihter (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana): Managing the archaeological data for a very large (Early-)Medieval cemetery. Case study Župna cerkev Kranj (Slovenia; 7 April 2022)
• Brina Škvor Jernejčič (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana): Networks and mobility at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age: New perspectives from the south-eastern Alpine Region (Slovenia; 14 April 2022)
• Alexander Minnich (NaturhistorischesMuseum Wien; Institut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie University of Wien): Brunn am Gebirge, Wolfholz: Insights into one of the earliest settlements of the Linear Pottery Culture (5 May 2022)
• Ezequiel Koile (Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Lepzig): Ecological and Socio-Cultural Constraints on Linguistic Diversification: New Insights From the Bantu Expansion (13 October 2022)
• Walther Pohl (University of Vienna): The HistoGenes project integrating archaeological, historical and genetic evidence on East Central Europe, c.400 900 CE. ERC project (31 October 2022)
• Luděk Brož (Etnologický ústav AV ČR): Zdivočelí divočáci: etnografie mezi veterinární expertízou a myslivostí v době afrického moru prasat. ERC projekt (3 November 2022)
• Peter Tóth (Ústav archeologie a muzeologie FF Masarykova univerzita, Brno): Komunitný areál prvých poľnohospodárov v Těšeticích-Kyjovicích z pohľadu nových výsledkov výskumu (24 November 2022)