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Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology (LAPE) is specialized research body of the university founded in September 2002 at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia as part of the Department of Botany. Since 2014 LAPE is a separate department of Faculty of Science.

Research activity of laboratory members is targeted at the area of bioarchaeology and palaeoecology, namely archaeobotany, archaeozoology, but also other specializations dealing with interaction between humans and environment in history. Bachelor, magister and doctor theses namely in botany, zoology and environmental archaeology are developed within the laboratory. In the case of environmental archaeology, laboratory closely collaborates with the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy. LAPE comprises research in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. LAPE also offers services for other research bodies. Besides consultancy concerning natural sciences in archaeology LAPE provides analytical work in several areas of bioarchaeology. LAPE co-edits the international journal Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica, Natural Sciences in Archaeology (IANSA).

Specialisation and projects:

Field archaeology, Mesolithic and Neolithic

Mgr. Jiří Bumerl

  • 2016–present Ph.D. student at the the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Thesis:  Mesolithic and neolithic settlement of South Bohemia and analysis of lithic assemblages. supervisor: Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Jaromír Beneš, Ph.D., consultant: PhDr. et Mgr. Petr Šída, Ph.D.
  • 2013–2016 Master study at the the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.Master thesis: Perspektives of ground archaeological survey and archaeological databases in North Budějevice region, South Bohemia. Supervisor Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Jaromír Beneš, Ph.D.
  • 2007-2011 Bachelor study at the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Bachelor thesis: Prehistory and history of human impact on landscape relief: And overview of current directions in the study and the importance of case studies

Stays abroad

  • 2019 Archaeobotanical summer school: Ohrid, North Macedonia
  • 2016–2018 Archaeobotanical summer school: Vrbjanska Čuka, North Macedonia

Research interest

Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement of South Bohemia, Field archaeology

Participation in scientific projects

  • 2018–2022 NAKI II (DG18P02OVV060) Identification and protection of the pluzina field systems in Czech Republic

Publications

  • Fanta, V., Zouhar, J., Beneš, J., Bumerl, J., & Sklenicka, P. (2020). How old are the towns and villages in Central Europe? Archaeological data reveal the size of bias in dating obtained from traditional historical sources. Journal of Archaeological Science, 113, 105044.
  • Vondrovský, V., Bumerl, J., Šída, P., Ptáková, M., Pták, M., & Chvojka, O. 2018: Nové poznatky o neolitickém osídlení jižních Čech. Archeologické Rozhledy, 70(2). 147-194.
  • Beneš, J., Naumov, G., Majerovičová, T., Budilová, K., Bumerl, J., Komárková, V., Kovárník, J., Vychronová, M., Juřičková, L. 2018: Onsite Bioarchaeological knowledge of the Neolithic settlements in the southern Balkans: The case of Vrbjanska Čuka, a tell site in Pelagonia, Republic of Macedonia. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 9.2.
  • Chvojka, J., John, J., Thomová, Z. ed. 2016: Bošilecký poklad. České Budějovice.
  • Houfková, P., Bumerl, J., Pospíšil, L., Karlík, P., Beneš, J., Bernardová, A., Hrabalíková, M., Janečková Molnárová, K., Hejcman, M. 2015: Origin and development of long-strip field patterns: A case study of an abandoned medieval village in the Czech Republic. Catena, 135: 83-91
  • Zímová, K. et al. 2013:  Pluzina developmen analysis of an abolished village Malonín in Prachatice region. Acta Pruhoniciana 104: 27–37

Conferences:

  • 2/2017 Nitra, Slovensko: 13. konferencia environmentálnej archeológie

Where to find us?

Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology

  • Faculty of Sciences,
  • University of South Bohemia
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  • Na Zlaté stoce 3
  • 370 05 České Budějovice

 

Contact

+420 38 903 6306
+420 38 903 6308

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