Department of Archaeology

 Dr. Peter Trebsche (summer semester 2017/2018)
Dr Peter Trebsche is an Austrian archaeologist working as a scientific worker at the Donau-Universität Krems, also lecturing at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Central Europe.

His main topics include the issues of the settlement archaeology, prehistoric architecture or the acquisition of copper in the Bronze Age. During his stay in Hradec Králové, he will present the courses of the Iron Age in Austria - Key Locations and Current Trends in Research and Reconstruction of Prehistoric Architecture and the Austrian Open Air Museums to students of the Philosophical Faculty.

 

Dr. Thomas R. Roček (winter semester 2018/2019)

Thomas R. Roček received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and he is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at the University of Delaware.
His research interests include medium-sized companies, agricultural origins, mobility and sedentism, quantitative analysis, and in particular comparative approaches to archaeological analyses.
Recently, these comparative interests have included both the formation period in the south-western United States as well as the Neolithic period in the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the Archaeological Society of New Mexico.

 

Dr. Karen Rosenberg (winter semester 2018/2019)

Karen Rosenberg is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware.  She is paleoanthropologist (B.A. University of Chicago, 1976, M. A. University of Michigan, 1980, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1986). 

Her research is on Neandertals and their contemporaries, the origin of modern humans and the evolution of human childbirth, human infant helplessness and their implications for humans today in terms of both behavior and health.   She has been at the University of Delaware since 1986, serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2002-2014.   She holds editorial positions as co-founding editor of PaleoAnthropology, and as Associate Editor for PLoS One and Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.  She served as vice-president (2010-2012) and president (2013-2015) of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and was recently elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

 Dr. Joan Pinar Gil (summer semester 2019)

He obtained his academic qualifications in Barcelona and Bologna, and gained experience as a post-doc researcher in Olomouc, Copenhagen, Paris, Turin, and Mainz. His main area of expertise is the archaeology of South-Western Europe during the 4th-9th century, with a special focus on funerary archaeology and metal small finds.

He has researched a number of issues related to mobility, fashion dissemination, identity, social organization, spatial analysis, topography, economy, trade, and craftsmanship. During his stay in Hradec Králové, he will try to share with the students the manifold and deep transformations of the cultural landscapes and the material culture between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and the ways archaeology can approach them.

 

Prof. Pawel Valde-Nowak (winter semester 2019/2020)

Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is a world-renowned scientist in the field of research, especially in the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. It focuses on research into the technology of the stone chipped industry, on research into the Quaternary, the application of geographical methods, archaeological research into the settlement of mountain areas (Carpathians, etc.), seasonal and cave stations. During his long scientific career, he has led a number of national and international scientific projects and archaeological research not only in Poland (eg Ciemna Cave, Kraków-Witkowice II, Lipnica Wielka, Żerkow), but also abroad (eg Tel Erani-Israel).

In recent years, he has been conducting archaeological excavations of cave sites in the Polish Tatras with evidence of settlement from the Late and Middle Paleolithic. In the Obłazowa Cave (near the village of Nowa Biała) he discovered the oldest human remains in Poland, but also the oldest boomerang in the world. He is the director of the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He lectured at UHK In the winter semester of 2019/2020 he lectured at the Department of Archeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové, two subjects "Palaeolithic cave- and open air sites in Poland on the European background" and "Archeology of mountainous areas. A case of different archeology “

 

Dr. Michelle Beghelli  (summer semester 2020)

Dr. Beghelli is primarily interested in Early Medieval Archaeology. At UHK, Philosophical Faculty, she has taught two courses focused on "Crafts and artisans in the 7th-9th centuries", and on "Building in stone and the economics of lithic materials in the Early Middle Ages".

 

Dr. Beghelli graduated from the University of Bologna and acquired her PhD at the University of Mainz. Her thesis was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. She received doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, has worked in international research projects, participated in conferences in several European Countries, and authored and co-edited a number of scientific papers and books.    

 

Dr. Dagmara Łaciak (summer semester 2021/2022)

Dr. Dagmara Łaciak is an assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław. Her research is mainly focused on the blackened and painted pottery of the Bronze and the Early Iron Age in Central Europe, the development of investigations on manufacturing and surface treatment analysis. She involves both formal, functional, experimental, archaeometrical, and imaging analyses of pottery in research of prehistoric societies.

She lectured at the Department of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, in the summer semester of 2022, subject "Cognitive possibilities of archaeometric and experimental research in studies on prehistoric and ancient pottery“. The course dealt with the possibilities and limitations of archaeometric and experimental analyses on studies of various issues related to prehistoric and ancient ceramics. Particular emphasis was placed on getting acquainted with the theory and using it in practice.

 

Dr. Martina Dalceggio (winter semester 2022/2023)

Dr. Martina Dalceggio teaches two courses of Early Medieval Archaeology of Italy, focused on material culture, production centres and funerary behaviours of elite in the Italian peninsula, at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, FF UHK.

In 2022 she completed her Ph.D. in European Cultures, Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas -Cultural Heritage curriculum- from the University of Trento, whit a research project focused on elite female burials in the Italian peninsula during Lombard Age. Dr. Dalceggio have collaborated with the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum, in Trento, one of the main local institutions for Cultural Heritage and research in the Trentino region. She has participated in archaeological excavation campaigns in northern Italy and Sicily, also in collaboration with Hradec Králové University. Dr. Dalceggio published her Master thesis in 2018, “Fibule a disco di VI-VII secolo in Italia”, and other papers in Italian, German, and Hungarian journals.

 

Assoc. prof. Elisa Possenti (summer semester 2023/2023)

Elisa Possenti studied in Venice (MA) and Bologna (PhD). Since 2006 she is an Assoc. Prof. of Christian and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Trento. Her amin interests concern the archaeological evidences of "barbarians people" in Italy during the late Antiquity and Middle Ages, untul the 10/11th century AD. Other studies have focalized funerary archaeology in Middle Ages; production, chronology and trade of early medieval metallic items; the alpine areas with particular regard to late antique/medieval castles and churches.

 

Dr. Joanna Markiewicz (winter semester 2023/2024)

 

Dr Andrew William Lamb (summer semester 2024/2025)

Andrew Lamb was awarded his PhD from the University of Leicester (2019), and as of 2025 teaches at the University of Edinburgh on the topics of archaeological theory, human migration and Iron Age archaeology. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Eisenzeit, is Vice-Chair of the Later Prehistoric Finds Group and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Andrew’s primary interest is understanding how Iron Age communities in Britain compare, contrast and relate to those in Ireland and continental Europe. This has led Andrew to publish on a variety of topics, including Iron Age mortuary practices, Celtic art and small finds. He has worked in the United Kingdom and Germany, and during his stay in Hradec Králové he will present a lecture series introducing the Iron Age archaeology of Europe’s western and northern extremities: Britain, Ireland, Brittany, Iberia and Scandinavia.

 

Bárbara Bonora Soriano (winter semester 2025/2026)

 Dr. Bárbara Bonora Soriano holds a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and will serve as a visiting professor in the winter semester 2025/2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Hradec Králové (UHK). Her research focuses on funerary practices, social complexity, and inequality in Bronze Age prehistoric societies in Western Europe, with special attention to the Argaric culture of south-eastern Iberia and the Unetice group in Central Europe.

Throughout her career, she has participated in excavations at key Argaric sites such as La Bastida and La Almoloya, as well as laboratory work, cataloguing, and analysis of archaeological materials. She has also been actively involved in scientific outreach through guided tours, dramatised tour events, and the creation of educational resources.

Currently, she collaborates with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt. Her work includes archaeological database analysis and the application of statistical methods and GIS to interpret tomb spatial organisation and social dynamics in prehistoric societies.

She has also developed a strong interest in science communication and innovative methods for effectively teaching archaeological knowledge. At UHK, she will teach the course “ArchaeoStats: Death & Data,” where students will learn to apply statistical techniques to analyse funerary data without prior mathematical knowledge, combining theoretical concepts with practical examples.