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About the Laboratory

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).

  • Specialization and projects:

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

Ing. Jaromír Kovárník

2019 - present

Ph.D. student of special plant production at University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Agriculture

2008-2010

Master study of Plant production at Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Agronomy

2005-2008

Bachelor study of Plant production at Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Agronomy

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

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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