• Specialization and projects:

  Agriculture, Starch analysis
• email:jkovarnik@prf.jcu.cz
• phone:+420 389 036 310

Ing. Jaromír Kovárník

Research interests

Archaeobotany, starch grain analysis from sediment or archaeological artifacts. Also plants, crops, study of plant root systems, pedology, statistical data analysis, geo-data analysis (GIS), neolithisation proces, agriculture.

Participation in scientific projects

• 2016-present Archaeobotanical summerschools in North Macedonia
• 2013 – 2015 PAPAVER Centre for human and plant studies in Europe and Northern Africa, PEE2.3.20.0289

Publications

• Jaromír Beneš, Goce Naumov, Tereza Majerovičová, Kristýna Budilová, Ivana Živaljević, Vesna Dimitrijević, Jiří Bumerl, Veronika Komárková, Jaromír Kovárník, Michaela Vychronová, Sofija Stefanović. Onsite Bioarchaeological Knowledge of the Neolithic settlements in the Balkans. The case of Vrbjanska Čuka, a tell-site in Pelagonia, Republic of Macedonia. Conference: 14th Conference of Environmental Archaeology 2018 At: Modena, Italy
• Kovárník, J., Beneš, J. 2018. Microscopic Analysis of Starch Grains and its Applications in the Archaeology of the Stone Age, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 9.1. 83-93. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2018.1.6
• Beneš, J., Naumov, G., Majerovičová, T., Budilová, K., Bumerl, J., Komárková, V., Kovárník, J., Vychronová, M., Juřičková, L. 2018. An Archaeobotanical Onsite Approach to the Neolithic Settlements in Southern Regions of the Balkans: The Case of Vrbjanska Čuka, a Tell Site in Pelagonia, Republic of Macedonia, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica9.2., 121–145. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2018.2.1
• Beneš, J., Vondrovský, V., Šída, P., Divišová, M., Kovačiková, L., Kovárník, J., Vavrečka, P. 2015. The rare deposition of the Neolithic (SBK) grinding tools and longhouse 8 from Hrdlovka (Czech Republic): analysis and 3D virtual reconstruction, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 6.2, 161-179. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2015.2.3

Conferences

• Jaromír Beneš, Goce Naumov, Tereza Majerovičová, Kristýna Budilová, Ivana Živaljević, Vesna Dimitrijević, Jiří Bumerl, Veronika Komárková, Jaromír Kovárník, Michaela Vychronová, Sofija Stefanović. Onsite Bioarchaeological Knowledge of the Neolithic settlements in the Balkans. The case of Vrbjanska Čuka, a tell-site in Pelagonia, Republic of Macedonia. Conference: 14th Conference of Environmental Archaeology 2018 At: Modena, Italy

Pedagogical activity

Teaching Assistant in courses:

• KBO/011 Archaeobotanical summerschool
• KBO/144 Imaging in bioarchoology