Alena Šefčáková

Biographic Data

ID104001
NAMEAlena Šefčáková
GIVEN NAMESAlena
FAMILY NAMEŠefčáková
SIGNATUREŠEFČÁKOVÁ A
AFFILIATIONSSlovak National Museum
ORCID0000-0002-4957-9944
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

    Open AccessPere Gelabert, Penny Bickle et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Cited by: 1References: 56

    The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Neolithic communities were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe. We report genome-wide data for 250 individuals: 178 individuals from whole-cemetery surveys of the Alföld Linearbankeramik Culture eastern LBK site of Polgár-Ferenci-hát, the western LBK site of Nitra Horné Krškany and the western LBK settlement and massacre site of Asparn-Schletz, as well as 48 LBK individuals from 16 other sites and …

  • Single Amino Acid Radiocarbon Dating of Two Neanderthals Found at Šal’a (Slovakia)

    Open AccessRachel J A Hopkins, Mateja Hajdinjak et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2022References: 39

    Human remains from the (late) Middle Paleolithic remain rare. Improving our understanding of their spatio-temporal distribution is essential for obtaining insights into human evolution and the dynamics between Neanderthals and early Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs). We present the single-amino-acid radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA results from the only Neanderthal skeletal remains known in Slovakia (Šal’a I and Šal’a II). As they were found wi…

  • Prehistoric charcoal drawings in the caves in the Slovak Republic, Central Europe

    Open AccessAlena Šefčáková, Vladimir A LevchenkoARTICLEQuaternary International2021

  • Phenotypic diversity of skulls in the Merovingian population (Norroy‐le‐Veneur cemetery, 7th century AD, Moselle, France) in the context of Early Medieval Europe

    Open AccessAlena Šefčáková, Milan Thurzo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020References: 6

    Western Europe underwent a major sociocultural and economic transformation from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. This so‐called Migration Period is characterized by invasions of various western and eastern non‐Romanized peoples, as well as by nomadic Huns. The Frankish state was the only Germanic state to successfully survive this period. Nevertheless, the arrival of unknown populations could have influenced the autochthonous Frankish pop…

  • Tell el-Retaba 2014–2015

    Open AccessSławomir Rzepka, Jozef Hudec et al.ARTICLEPolish Archaeology in the…2017

    The excavation at Tell el-Retaba in 2014 and 2015 comprised three seasons of fieldwork, carried out in sectors of the site already opened in previous years. The earliest archaeological remains date from the Second Intermediate Period and represent a Hyksos settlement and cemetery. Ruins of an early Eighteenth Dynasty settlement, fortresses from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties and from the Third Intermediate Period settlement continued to b…

  • Technical Note

    Open AccessJana Velemínská, Václav Krajíček et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2013Cited by: 4References: 32

    The greater sciatic notch (GSN) is one of the most important and frequently used characteristics for determining the sex of skeletons, but objective assessment of this characteristic is not without its difficulties. We tested the robustness of GSN sex classification on the basis of geometric morphometrics (GM) and support vector machines (SVM), using two different population samples. Using photographs, the shape of the GSN in 229 samples from two…

  • Size factor as one of the problems in the sex estimation of skulls

    Alena Šefčáková, Stanislav Katina et al.ARTICLEAnthropologischer Anzeiger2011

    In this study we estimate sex and population affinity of Gravettian Predmostí (P) skulls using linear and geometric discriminant analysis (DA), and compare them with results of 2D geometric morphometrics (GM). We used the measurements of P3 and P9 males, P4 and P10 females, as originally estimated by Matiegka (1934), as well as two databases--the recent skull database of Howells and the fossil data of Henke. DA classifies the P skulls as robust a…

  • Variability of the Upper Palaeolithic skulls from Předmostí near Přerov (Czech Republic)

    Open AccessJana Velemínská, Jaroslav Brůžek et al.ARTICLEHOMO2008

  • A New Egyptian Human Mummified Head in the Slovak National Museum, Bratislava

    Open AccessAlena Šefčáková, Jozef Hudec et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2005

    A mummified human head was recently anthropologically investigated and its provenance checked in the Anthropological Department, Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. The head is of a 35- to 45-year-old male. Its original provenance is unknown but both historical sources and the testimony of the first Hungarian Egyptologist Eduard Mahler suggest that the mummy head belongs to the Fifteenth Dynasty (Second Intermediate Period). However, the present …

  • Case of metastatic carcinoma from end of the 8th–Early 9th century Slovakia

    Open AccessAlena Šefčáková, Eugen Strouhal et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2001Cited by: 8References: 2

    The first case of metastatic carcinoma ever detected in Slovakia comes from a Slavonic cemetery at Borovce, in the district of Piešt'any, which is dated from the end of the 8th to the middle of the 12th century AD. The disease afflicted a 50–60‐year‐old male, buried in a grave from the older phase of inhumation (8th–early 9th century AD). A number of osteolytic metastases were found in all bones of the skull and postcranial skeleton except for th…