Research Areas

• Classical Archaeology

• Early Greek

• Etruscan and Black Sea Archaeology

• Roman provincial and Far Eastern Archaeology

• Cultural Anthropology

• Art History

• Contact Archaeology (relations between Mediterranean, Black Sea and European civilisations in the 2nd - 1st millennium B.C.)

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Work Experience

• Since 2002: professor of art history and anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• Until 2012: teaching at the Masaryk University, Brno

• Until 2001: director of the Institute for Classical Archaeology, Charles University, until 2011 its vice-director

• 1989–1991: vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

• 1969–1991: head of the Classical sub-department, National Museum Prague

Education

• 1992: DrSc, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1983: associate professor, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1991: professor, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1967: assistant professor, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1966: CSc, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1962: lecturer, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1958: assistant, Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague

• 1953 - 1958: Classical and Prehistoric Archaeology, Charles University, Prague.

Stays Abroad

• 1967–1968: Humboldt scholarship at the Tuebingen University

• 1989: James Eliot Norton Memorial lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America and guest professor of the University of Minnesota

• 1991–1992: two terms guest professor of the Tuebingen University and one term of the Vienna University,

• 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000 (one month each time):  Directeur d`Études Asssocié of the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris

• 1999: Visiting Professor of British Academy

• 1995–1996: series of guest lectures sponsored by the Soros foundation in the Bratislava Comenius University

• 2001: guest professor at the Salzburg University.

• 2003: guest prof. University Opole, Poland

Memberships

• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute

• Ordinary member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute

• Ordinary member of the French Society for Classical Archaeology

• Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic since 2005

• Head of the national teams for Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum and Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (projects under the auspices of UNESCO, member of the scientific committee of the latter)

Publications (selection)

• Study of Homeric Greece and the Early Iron Age Geometric Koine, 2017

• Prehisrtpry of Europe as Seen from its Centre, 2011

• Thracians and Their Neighbours, Prague 2005

• Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the Early Iron Age, Jonsered (Aström), 1997

• Studies of Greek Pottery in the Black Sea Region, Prague 1990

• The Aegean, Anatolia and Europe: Cultural Interrelations in the 2nd millennium B.C., Goethenburg-Prague 1985

• Graeco-Macedonian Bronzes, Prague 1974

• Homerisches Griechenland, Prague 1969

• The Knovíz Settlement in NW Bohemia (with D. Koutecký and E. Neustupný), Prague 1966