About Us

About our group

The cooperation of several institution in the border area of the middle course of the Morava River (border between the Czech and Slovak republic) makes it possible to meet the project´s objectives.

The idea of research and protection of the culutral landscape have brought together researchers from several research teams. The connection resulted into the international platform with participation of three instutions: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Brno, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts  Comenius University Bratislava, The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic.

The research and protection of the cultural landscape around the middle reaches of the Morava River is carried out in interdisciplinary cooperation. The archaeological and historical sources are analysed with a wide range of natural science, mathematical and geoinformation methods.

Project Management

Marek Hladík (project coordinator)

Mgr. Marek Hladík, PhD. works as scientist at the Research Centre for Slavic and Medieval Archaeology (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Brno). He is a member of a team that focuses on the research of the Mikulčice-Valy agglomeration (one of the most important centers of Great Moravia). His long-term specialization in this team is, in addition to theoretical archeology, the study of social and economic relations of early medieval centers with their economic hinterland and the issue of economic archeology in general.

Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Archaeology, Brno
Archaeological Base Mikulčice-Trapíkov
Mikulčice 736, 696 19 Mikulčice
Czech Republic
hladik@arub.cz
Phone: 00421 903 803 576

Katarína Hladíková (vice project coordinator)

Mgr. Katarína Hladíková, PhD. works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She teaches the courses Computer Application in Archaeology, Geographic information systems (GIS) in Archaeology and courses related to protohistory. Her research focus is targeted on the social archaeology of later European prehistory and protohistory, and landscape archaeology.

Department of Archaeology
Faculty of Arts
Comenius University Bratislava
Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava
Slovakia
katarina.hladikova@uniba.sk

Team Members

Petra Kmeťová

Mgr. Petra Kmeťová, PhD., works at the department of archaeology of the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic. In the past she had completed several scholarship stays in several countries, she also participated in the project aimed on archaeological chronometry and in several large archaeological excavations. She specialises on the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age, relationship of humans and animals in the past, and on monuments preservation including preservation and study of less conspicuous (e.g. organic) archaeological remains.

The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
Cesta na Červený most 6
814 06 Bratislava
Slovakia
petra.kmetova@pamiatky.gov.sk

Michaela Látková

Mgr. Michaela Látková PhD. works as an archaeobotanist at the Institute of Archaeology, Brno (Czech Academy of Sciences). Her research focuses on the study (paleo)economics, environmental archaeology, subsistence strategies of historical populations, taphonomic processes involved in the shaping of the archaeobotanical assemblages, the collection and extraction of new archaeobotanical samples in the field. She works mainly with archeological material that comes from the well known site Mikulčice from Great Moravian period.

Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Archaeology, Brno
Archaeological Base Mikulčice-Trapíkov
Mikulčice 736, 696 19 Mikulčice
Czech Republic
latkova@arub.cz

Jana Mellnerová Šuteková

Mgr. Jana Mellnerová Šuteková, PhD. works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her actual research activities and themes of university lectures focus on settlement strategies and funerary rites in 6th – 3rd Millennium BC in Western Carpathians, landscape archaeology in Prehistory and historical archaeology.

Department of Archaeology
Faculty of Arts
Comenius University Bratislava
Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava
Slovakia
jana.mellnerova@uniba.sk

Erika Makarová

Mgr. Erika Makarová, PhD. works as an archaeologist at the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her research interests concern social and funerary archaeology of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central Europe.

The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
Cesta na Červený most 6
814 06 Bratislava
Slovakia
erika.makarova@pamiatky.gov.sk

Peter Bisták

Mgr. Peter Bisták is a Head of the Department of Archaeology at the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic. He deals with the state administration of archaeological heritage protection, implementation of innovations in archaeological heritage protection, and the archaeological data management. His research focus is targeted on the landscape archaeology in SW Slovakia and also on the archaeology of the Early and High Middle Ages.

The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
Cesta na Červený most 6
814 06 Bratislava
Slovakia
peter.bistak@pamiatky.gov.sk

Marian Mazuch

PhDr. Marian Mazuch, PhD. works as Associated scientist at the Research Centre for Slavic and Medieval Archaeology of Institute of Archaeology, Brno (Czech Academy of Sciences). He is a member of a team that focuses on the research of the Mikulčice-Valy agglomeration (one of the most important centers of Great Moravia). He specializes of structure, function and development of early medieval centers, great moravian pottery, methodology of the field excavation and problems of the demise of Great Moravian Empire.

Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Archaeology, Brno
Archaeological Base Mikulčice-Trapíkov
Mikulčice 736, 696 19 Mikulčice
Czech Republic
mazuch@arub.cz

Jakub Tamaškovič

Mgr. Jakub Tamaškovič works as Archaeologist (Archaeological Agency Ltd.) and as PhD student (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra). His current research goals aim on the Early Medieval agglomeration in Bratislava (Slovak republic) and its hinterland, including nearby funeral areas and their material culture. The long-term specialization is focused on the field survey methods and on application of the Geographic information systems (GIS) in the modeling of the past settlement structures.

Department of Archaeology
Faculty of Arts
Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra
Hodžova 1, 949 74 Nitra
Slovakia
jakub.tamaskovic@gmail.com