Petr Pokorný

Biographic Data

ID330705
NAMEPetr Pokorný
GIVEN NAMESPetr
FAMILY NAMEPokorný
SIGNATUREPOKORNÝ P
AFFILIATIONSCharles University
ORCID0000-0001-5193-7133
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS111
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Across Disciplines and Borders

    Open AccessPetr Pokorný, Michaela Ptáková et al.ARTICLEInterdisciplinaria Archaeologica…2026

    This paper introduces a new joint Master’s degree programme in Environmental Archaeology, developed through collaboration between the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Czech Republic) and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). The programme responds to the growing need for integrative approaches in environmental archaeology, a field increasingly shaped by the expansion of high-resolution datasets and the method…

  • Climate and human-driven erosional dynamics in central European lowlands during the Late Glacial and Holocene – a case study from the sandstone area of the Bohemian Paradise (Czech Republic)

    Open AccessTomáš Radoměřský, Jan Hošek et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2026

    Dynamics of erosion-sedimentation processes can be triggered by both natural and anthropogenic perturbation of the ecosystem. However, the interplay between individual factors (e.g. climate, tectonics, vegetation and soil cover, land-use) is not fully understood due to the scarcity of suitable paleoenvironmental archives. Here we present the results of multidisciplinary research conducted in the geomorphologically diverse sandstone area of the Bo…

  • Jan Turek

    Open AccessPetr PokornýARTICLEArcheologické rozhledy2026

    If one were to characterise Jan Turek's Prvn Evropan (First Europeans) in a single sentence, it would perhaps be best described as an archaeological essay on the long-term cultural foundations of Europe.The book is far more than a conventional synthesis of European prehistory.Rather, it represents an ambitious attempt to interpret the emergence of European civilisation through the transformative processes associated mainly with the Neolithic.Alth…

  • Rethinking Key Transformations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Central Europe

    Open AccessVáclav Vondrovský, Václav Hrnčíř et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2025References: 57

    The past two decades have revolutionized our understanding of European prehistory, shaping new grand narratives focused on core regions with rich archaeological records. These studies suggest that major sociocultural shifts in central Europe, such as the Early Neolithic transition to farming, the spread of steppe ancestry during the Late Neolithic, and the rise of complexity at the beginning of the Early Bronze Age, were synchronous across extens…

  • Multi-proxy investigation of a unique Bronze Age deposit of broomcorn millet and human remains at a bog site in Bohemia, Czech Republic

    Open AccessDagmar Dreslerová, Daniel Vondrák et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025References: 4

  • At the edge of Neolithic transition

    Open AccessVáclav Vondrovský, Michaela Ptáková et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2024Cited by: 1

    This project focuses on the subsistence strategies of Early Neolithic communities that inhabited the upland region of South Bohemia. Its results reveal a distinctive trajectory for this peripheral area that was colonised significantly later, brought incoming farmers into close contact with hunter-gatherers and made them adapt their conservative farming practices

  • Risco de resultado falso positivo no rastreamento mamográfico do Brasil

    Open AccessPetr Pokorný, Renata Oliveira Maciel Dos Santos et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2023References: 26

    Resultados falsos positivos na mamografia de rastreamento são comuns a essa intervenção e trazem ônus para as mulheres e o sistema de saúde. O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar o risco de resultado falso positivo no rastreamento mamográfico brasileiro com base em dados de sistemas de informação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Foi realizado estudo de coorte histórica de mulheres de 40-69 anos, que realizaram mamografia de rastreamento e exame his…

  • The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan)

    Open AccessLadislav Varadzin, Lenka Varadzinová et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 4References: 5

    The authors present preliminary results from a new research project based in Jebel Shaqadud, Sudan. Their findings highlight the potential for this region's archaeological record to expand our understanding of the adaptation strategies used by human groups in arid north-east African environments away from rivers and lakes during the Holocene. Furthermore, they present exceptionally early radiocarbon dates that push postglacial human occupation in…

  • Managing wilderness? Holocene-scale, human-related disturbance dynamics as revealed in a remote, forested area in the Czech Republic

    Open AccessPetr Pokorný, Přemysl Bobek et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2022Cited by: 1References: 13

    In the lowlands and uplands of Central Europe, which were inhabited continuously from the very start of the Holocene to the present times, it is difficult to find territories suitable for investigation of natural baselines. For this reason, we picked the complicated rocky terrain of one upland area in NE Bohemia called Adrspach because, based on the absence of archeological finds, it was supposed to have never been deforested or managed by people…

  • A little luxury doesn’t hurt

    Open AccessPetr Pokorný, P Šída et al.ARTICLEVegetation History and…2022References: 7

  • Islands of Difference

    Michaela Ptáková, P Šída et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2021Cited by: 4References: 1

    This paper explores the relationship between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers and prehistoric herders using a regional-scale analysis of two agriculturally peripheral areas in Bohemia (Czech Republic). Both regions represent ecologically diverse islands used by hunter-gatherer communities for their rich natural resources and set within uniform loess basins colonised by the first LBK farmers. Based on settlement dynamics, radiocarbon…

  • New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

    Open AccessDragana Filipović, John Meadows et al.ARTICLEScientific Reports2020

    Broomcorn millet ( Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 bc . In Europe, millet was reported in Early Neolithic contexts formed by 6000 bc , but recent radiocarbon dating of a dozen 'early' grains cast doubt on these claims. Archaeobotanical evidence reveals that millet was common in Europe from the 2nd millennium bc , when major …

  • The lost paradise of snails

    Open AccessLucie Juříčková, P Šída et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2020Cited by: 2References: 3

    We studied the transformation of a middle-to-late Holocene forested ecosystem using the highly indicative remains of land snails. The study areas were sandstone landscapes of northern Bohemia (Czech Republic) that provide extremely rich terrestrial fossil records. As far as we know, nowhere else in the world does such a type of sedimentary environment provide Holocene records of snail shells. Currently, these sandstone landscapes are covered by l…

  • From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders

    Open AccessMichaela Ptáková, Petr Pokorný et al.ARTICLEVegetation History and…2020Cited by: 3References: 16

  • Pozdně paleolitické a mezolitické osídlení Šumavy

    Open AccessKatarína Kapustka, Jan Eigner et al.ARTICLEPamátky archeologické2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    The main objective of the article is to present knowledge of newly discovered sites in the mountainous environment of Šumava (Bohemian Forest). The fieldwork in 2011–2019 identified a total of 30 new sites that can be dated to the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. The research of prehistoric settlement of the mountainous regions of Bohemia remained a neglected topic for many years. The presence of hunters-gatherers in the mountains in the…

  • Last Glacial Maximum landscape and Epigravettian horse hunting strategy in Central Europe

    Open AccessJiří Svoboda, Jiřı́svoboda et al.ARTICLEPřehled výzkumů2020Cited by: 4

    With the end of MIS3, the unity of larger Gravettian settlements based predominantly on mammoth exploitation split into a mosaic of smaller Epigravettian sites with specific behaviors and economies. Based on C14 chronology, the site of Stránská skála IV (together with Grubgraben, Ságvár and Kašov), correlates with a brief warm period after the Last Glacial Maximum around 22 ka calBP. We detected two main accumulations of predominantly horse bones…

  • Holocene forest transformations in sandstone landscapes of the Czech Republic

    Open AccessJan Novák, Vojtěch Abraham et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Cited by: 1References: 11

    Stand-scale palaeoecology in sandstone landscapes provides insight into contrasting Holocene forest succession trajectories. Sharp geomorphological gradients in this investigated area, which in addition have never been deforested during the Holocene, provide a good model for upscaling the local vegetation histories to the wider territory of Central Europe. In three sandstone areas – Bohemian Paradise, Polemené hory and Broumov – we compare (1) an…

  • The Production and Consumption of Ostrich Eggshell Beads at the Mesolithic Site of Sphinx (SBK.W-60), Jebel Sabaloka

    Zdeňka Sůvová, Lenka Varadzinová et al.CHAPTER2018

  • Late Glacial and Holocene sequences in rockshelters and adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic

    Open AccessJiří Svoboda, Jiřı́svoboda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2018

  • Holocene climatic events linked to environmental changes at Lake Komořany Basin, Czech Republic

    Open AccessPetra Houfková, Tomáš Bešta et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2017References: 29

    Former Lake Komořany, located in Northwest Bohemia in Central Europe, provides multiple proxies (pollen, plant macrofossils, diatoms, chironomids and sediment chemistry) that allowed reconstruction of the development of its aquatic environment and catchment, throughout the Holocene. In order to reconstruct the climatic forcing of this development, we performed a pollen-based reconstruction of climate changes using the best modern analogue method.…

  • Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Malá Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

    Open AccessLucie Juříčková, Petr Pokorný et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2017Cited by: 4References: 11

    While general trends in Central European postglacial recolonisation dynamics are relatively well known, we often lack studies on intermediate (meta-population, landscape) scales. Such studies are needed to increase our understanding of, for example, the location of refugia; emergence of endemism, rates and trajectories of postglacial migrations; and anthropogenic landscape changes. Here, we focused on the outer Western Carpathian mountain chain M…

  • Obtaining Black Carbon—A Simple Method for the Safe Removal of Mineral Components from Soils and Archaeological Layers

    Open AccessVilém Bartůněk, Kryštof Dobrovolný et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2017References: 14

    In this study, we present a novel, safe method for how to remove inorganic components from soil samples studied for archaeological purposes, in order to improve studies of the distribution of black carbon in the sedimentary record. As the depositional history of this material depends on the interaction between humans and the natural environment, this method can be widely used in archaeology, landscape archaeology, palaeoecology, environmental geo…

  • Jesus in Geschichte und Bekenntnis

    Petr PokornýBOOKJesus in Geschichte und Bekenntnis2016

    This volume contains 19 essays by Petr Pokorný that provide a unique overview of Jesus research and early Christology. The author presents case studies dealing with the problem of the relationship between the first and early Christian christologies and the Jesus of history.

  • Jesus in Geschichte und Bekenntnis

    Petr PokornýBOOKJesus in Geschichte und Bekenntnis2016

    Dieser Band versammelt neunzehn Studien Petr Pokornýs zur Jesusforschung und zu den Anfängen der Christologie. In den einzelnen Aufsätzen befasst er sich mit dem Problem der Beziehung der ur- und frühchristlichen Christologie(n) zum Jesus der Geschichte, mit der theologischen Begründung der Jesus-Forschung und ihrer Beziehung zur systematischen Theologie und Philosophie sowie mit der Methodologie der kritischen Jesusforschung. Mehrere Beiträge be…

  • A charcoal record of Holocene woodland succession from sandstone rock shelters of North Bohemia (Czech Republic)

    Open AccessJan Novák, Jiří Svoboda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015