• Specialization and projects:

  Historical Ethnobotany
• Email:jitullka@gmail.com
• Phone:+420 389 036 308

Mgr. Jitka Kosňovská

Research interest

Specialization on historical ethnobotany and macroremain analyses in early modern period. Special focus in archaeobotanical collections is on useful plants and its changing assortment in time, spreading and utility of useful plant in historical and ethnobotanical perspective. Using the archaeobotanical databases was focused on archaeobotanical sites, artefacts and macroremains across the world to reflect the centres of plants domestication and traces the plants utilities for the better understanding the role of useful plant in developing society.

Publications

• Kosňovská, J., Macků, P. 2017: Archeologický a archeobotanický výzkum raně novověké studny z Telče – Štěpnic. Archaeological and archaeobotanical examination of an early modern well in Telč – Štěpnice. In: Archeologické výzkumy na Vysočině, 5/2014, 140-161
• Kosňovská J. 2013: The origin, archaeobotany and ethnobotany of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) in the Czech Republic, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 4(2): 163–176, DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2013.2.3
• Beneš J., Čulíková V., Kosňovská J., Frolík J., Matiášek J. 2012: Luxury Goods at Prague Castle: the Archaeobotany of Imported Useful Plants in the Early Modern Period, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 3(1): 103–114. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2012.1.7
• Kosňovská J., Houfková P., Kovář D. 2011: Lannova třída ve světle archeobotanických analýz, Archeologické výzkumy v jižních Čechách, 24/2011, 263-280.

Conferences

• Kosňovská J, Beneš J., Skružná J. 2019: What would have been the archaeobotanical signals of luxury status of the site without discovering the Americas? The case of Prague Castle in the Early Modern period and ethnobotanic meaning of the new useful plants. International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce, Italy (oral presentation).
• Kosňovská J, Beneš J. 2018: Structure and useful plant dynamics on Prague Castle: archaeobotanical and ethnohistorical perspective.  The Conference of Environmental Archaeology. Modena, Italy (oral presentation).
• Kosňovská J. 2016: Exotické archeobotanické taxony z 16/17. století analyzované z klenebního zásypu Vladislavského sálu na Pražském hradě. 48. ročník mezinárodní konference archeologie středověku Archaeologia historica (poster contribution).
• Kosňovská J. 2015:  Carob fruit (Ceratonia siliqua L.) as a reference of brisk trade in the early modern area of the Prage castle, Czech Republic. Conference of Environmental Archeology, České Budějovice (poster contribution).
• ​Kosňovská J. 2011: The origin, spread and utilization of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), 7. Conference of environmental archaeology, Brno (oral presentation).
• Beneš J., Čulíková V., Kosňovská J., Frolík J., Matiášek J. 2011: Luxury plants in the Prague castle in the early modern time: Mediterranean footprint in Central Europe, 7. Conference of environmental archaeology, Brno (oral presentation).
• Kosňovská J., Beneš J., Frolík J., Matiášek J. 2011: Archaeobotanical analysis of the early modern waste-vault infill from Vladislav hall, Prague castle. Environmental Archaeology of Urban sites, Gdaňsk (oral presentation).
• Kosňovská J., Beneš J., Frolík J., Matiášek J. 2010: Archaeobotanical analysis of the Early Modern vault infill from Vladislav Hall, Old Royal Palace, Prague Castle, Czech Republic, 15th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany in Wilhelmshaven, Germany (poster contribution).

Pedagogical activity

Since 2013  Course of Historical ethnobotany (with Jaromír Beneš)