Books

2009    Social Differentiation in the Late Copper Age and the Early Bronze Age in South Moravia (Czech Republic). British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1994. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

2022    Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. New York: Berghahn. (co-editor Alexander, Catherine)

2017    Archaeologies of Waste: Encounters with the Unwanted. Oxford: Oxbow Books. (co-editor Brunclíková, Lenka)

2013    Computing in Anthropology. Special issue of Social Science Computer Review 31(1). (co-editors Fischer, Michael – Lyon, Stephen – Henig, David)

2013    Theory and Method in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Central Europe. Special issue of Anthropologie 51(2). (co-editors Kolář, Jan – Květina, Petr – Trampota, František)

Journal Articles  

2024   The Inner Dynamic of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management. East European Politics and Societies 38(1): 321–338.

2024   Ecologies of Quantification in Waste Management: Landfilling, E-Waste Recycling, and Car Breaking. Critique of Anthropology 44(1): 42–63. (co-authors Stehlíková, Barbora – Mašek, Pavel)

2023   Magnetism of Strangeness: Silenced Histories of Landscapes. History and Anthropology 34(3): 390-408.

2019   Rescuing Things: Food Waste in the Rural Environment in the Czech Republic. Journal of Cleaner Production 214: 319-330. (co-authors Brunclíková, Lenka – Galeta, Patrik)

2019   Drinking and dreaming in the dormitories: Workers struggle in times of economic development. Journal of Material Culture 24(2): 232-50. (co-author Brunclíková, Lenka)

2018   Shape matters: assessing regional variation of Bell Beaker projectile points in Central Europe using geometric morphometrics. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10(4): 893-904. (co-authors Petřík, Jan – Prokeš, Lubomír – Štefanisko, Denis – Galeta, Patrik)

2016   Zhodnocení možností odhadu pohlaví autorů paleolitických nástěnných maleb z otisků ruky. Archeologické rozhledy 68(1): 3-18. (co-authors Mik, Patrik – Galeta, Patrik)

2014   Jednorázová společnost? Sledování konzumních vzorců v urbánním prostředí [A Throwaway Society? Tracing Consumption Patterns in an Urban Environment]. Lidé města 16(1): 67-98. (co-author Brunclíková, Lenka)

2013   Testing iPad in the field: use of a relational database in garbological research. Anthropologie 51(3): 421-430. (co-authors Brunclíková, Lenka Henig, David)

2013   For Whom the Texts Toll: Genres, Styles, and Discourses in Czech Archaeological Community. Anthropologie 51(2): 285-299.

2013   Prehistoric Archaeology in Central Europe: Beyond Diversity. Anthropologie 51(2): 123-130. (co-editors Kolář, Jan – Květina, Petr – Trampota, František)

2013   Burials and Graphs: Relational Approach to Mortuary Analysis. Social Science Computer Review 31(1): 56-70. (co-authors Galeta, Patrik – Šmejda, Ladislav – Sládek, Vladimír –  Brůžek, Jaroslav)

2013   Harmonizing Diversity: Tuning Anthropological Research to Complexity. Social Science Computer Review 31(1): 3-15. (s M. Fischerem, S. Lyonem a D. Henigem)

2012   Measuring Human Remains in the Field: Grid Technique, Total Station, or MicroScribe? Forensic Science International 221: 16-22. (co-authors Sládek, Vladimír – Galeta, Patrik)

2011   Modeling Neolithic Dispersal in Central Europe: Demographic Implications. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146: 104-115. (co-authors Sládek, Vladimír – Galeta, Patrik – Brůžek, Jaroslav)

2010   Investigating Mortuary Sites: The Search for Synergy. Anthropologie 48(1):33-40. (co-authors Sládek, Vladimír – Galeta, Patrik)

2009   Lévi-Strauss a směna [Lévi-Strauss and Exchange]. Teorie vědy 31(1): 65-90. (co-author Kotalová, Jitka)

2008   A Resampling Approach to Gender Relations: The Rebešovice Cemetery. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(2): 342-354. (co-authors Sládek, Vladimír – Galeta, Patrik)

2007   Human Manipulative Behavior in the Central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age: Humeral Bilateral Asymmetry. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133(1): 669-681. (co-authors Sládek, Vladimír – Berner, Margit – Sailer, Robert)

2002   Konzervace křehkých archeologických nálezů technikou parylene conformal coating [Conservation of fragile archaeological materials via parylene conformal coating]. Archeologické rozhledy 54(4): 877-890. (co-author Illingworth, Jeff)

1999   Experimentální ověření textilní produkce v mladém paleolitu [Experimental proof of textile production during the Upper Palaeolithic]. Archeologické rozhledy 51(1): 95-103.

Book Chapters

2024   Circular Economy of Wastewater: Recirculation, Spinning, and Rolling to the Future. In: O’Hare, Patrick – Rams, Dagna (eds.): Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal, and the Effects of Global Circularity. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 153-171.

2023   Mortuary Archaeology Networks. In: M. Peeples –, J. Munson, – B. Mills, –T. Brughmans (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 117-131.

2017   Heterotopias behind the Fence: Landfills as Relational Emplacements. In: Sosna, Daniel – Brunclíková, Lenka (eds.): Archaeologies of waste: encounters with the unwanted. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 162-178.

2017   Introduction. In: Sosna, Daniel – Brunclíková, Lenka (eds.): Archaeologies of waste: encounters with the unwanted. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 1-13. (co-author Brunclíková, Lenka)

Ongoing Projects and Grants

2024-2029       Research on Environmental Sustainability and on the Use of Resources in Central European Households. Praemium Academiae, Czech Academy of Sciences (AP2303). Researcher.

Past Projects and Grants

2020-2022       Waste Regime at a Crossroad: Divergent Trajectories of Things, Cars, and Electronics. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA20-06759S). Principal Investigator.

2018                Thrift in Anthropology: Between Thriftiness and Wasting. The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Workshop Grant (Gr. Conf. 783). Organizer.

2014-2016       Social Dimension of Household Waste: Consumption in the Post-Socialist Space. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA14-03314S). Principal Investigator.

2012–2014      New Technologies for Research of Contemporary and Past Societies. Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0135). Scientific Guarantor.

2011-2014       Strategies of Archaeological Research in Europe Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0135). Researcher.

2013                Social Dimension of Human Waste. Grant Agency of the University of West Bohemia. Co-Investigator.

2012                Social Dimension of Waste. Grant Agency of the University of West Bohemia. Co-Investigator.

2010                Sosna, D. and Lyon, S. European Workshop of the Society for Anthropological Sciences. The Wenner-Gren Foundation. (Gr. CONF-539). Organizer.

2010                Student Conference: Perspectives on the Study of Past Populations. Grant Agency of the University of West Bohemia. Co-Organizer.

2009                The Diachronic Changes of Long Bone Cross-Sectional Geometry in Human Prehistoric Populations in Central Europe: The Biomechanical Analysis. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (206/01/D018). Co-Investigator.

2008                POSTDOC-08, Human Resource Development at the University of West Bohemia. Principal Investigator.

2006                Bioarchaelogy of the Holocene Populations of Central Europe: Reconstruction of Mobility and Manipulative Behaviour. Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office. Researcher.

2005–2011      Methods of Field Anthropology. Specific Research Grant at the University of West Bohemia. Co-Investigator.

2004                Social Differentiation during the Transition from the Late Copper Age to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe. Eisele Predissertation Research Award, Florida State University. Principal Investigator.

Editorial Work

2019–2021      Journal Cargo, Editorial Board

2002                Journal Anthropologie (Brno), Assistant Editor

Board Memberships

Ongoing          Board of the Institute of Ethnology CAS, Chair

Ongoing          Scientific Board, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Member

Ongoing          Review Panel for Sociology and Political Sciences, Grant Agency of Charles University, Member

2020–2023      Review Panel for Social Sciences (Programs Éta and Sigma), Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

2007–2023      Disciplinary Board of the Doctoral Program Ethnology, University of West Bohemia

2015–2021      Executive Board, Czech Association for Social Anthropology, Member

2015–2019      Review Panel P404, Czech Science Foundation, Member

2015–2016      Committee for Quality, University of West Bohemia, Member

2014                Board for the implementation of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 in Czechia, Member

2009–2013      Disciplinary committee, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia, Member (2009-2012), Chair (2013)

2009–2010      Academic Senate, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia  

External Reviewing

Project Evaluation: ERC (Remote Expert Referee), National Science Foundation (USA); Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Book Proposal and Manuscript Evaluation: SLON

Journal Articles Manuscript Review: Akta Filosofické fakulty ZČU; American Journal of Physical Anthropology; Antiquity; Archeologické rozhledy; Biograf; Cargo; Český lid; Current Anthropology; Durham Anthropology Journal; Ethnography; Ethnos; History and Anthropology; Journal of Anthropological Archaeology; Journal of Business Anthropology; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of Field Archaeology; Lidé města; PaleoAnthropology; Sociální studia; Czech Sociological Review; Živá archeologie

Doctoral Thesis Examination: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University; Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University; Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University; Faculty of Philosophy, Masaryk University

Invited Talks

2023    Pestré životy skládek [Diverse Lives of Landfills]. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Praha 5.5.2023 (co-author Figura Roman). 

2023    Between Science and Art: Study and Representation of Multispecies Relations. Social Labs/Creative Methodologies #1, Utrecht, 5 April, 2023 (co-authors Brož, Luděk Skála, Tomáš).

2019    Food through the Prism of Disposal: Combining Ethnography and Garbology. Institute of Sociology, ASCR, Praha, 16.10.2019.

2018    Asymetrie [Asymmetry]. Institute of Sociology, ASCR, Praha, 12.4.2018.

2017    Transforming Value Near the End of the Value Chain: Informal Economy in a Czech Landfill. Presented at School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, November 9, 2017.

2017    Od garbologie k etnografii: cesta k neformální ekonomice odpadu [From Garbology to Ethnography: A Journey in the Informal Waste Economy]. Cyklus KVAS, Institut sociologických studií, FSV, Praha, 31.3.2017.

2017    Ladislav Holy Lecture: Každodenní etika v časech nejistoty: klopýtání transakční logiky v neformální ekonomice odpadu [Everyday Ethics in Uncertain Times: Stumbling of Transactional Logic in the Informal Waste Economy]. Czech Association for Social Anthropology, Praha, 21.1.2017.

2015    Tajný život odpadu: napětí mezi vzájemností a trhem [A Secret Life of Garbage: Tension between Mutuality and Market]. Thursday Seminar, Center for Theoretical Studies, Praha, 8.1.2015.

2015    Hodnota diverzity [The Value of Diversity]. Faculty of Philosophy, The Week of Diversity, Praha, 23.11.2015.

2013    Archaeologies of the Unwanted: Rubbish in Human World. Presented at School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, December 5, 2013.

2011    Ethics and Human Remains: Perspectives from Central Europe. Presented in Anthropology Department, Durham University, March 9, 2011.

2010    Sex and Gender: Bio-Social Dimension of Human Difference. Presented in the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Charles University, Prague, April 28, 2010.

2010    “The Dead are not Left Alone”: Post-Funeral Grave Disturbances in the Early Bronze Age. Presented in Anthropology Department, Durham University, March 18, 2010.

2008    Gender a archeologie [Gender and Archaeology]. Presented to the Masaryk Czech Sociological Association (Gellner Seminar Series), Prague, February 28, 2008.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

2021    Containers and Waste: Ordering the Unruly, 25.10.2021, Praha, AV21 program. (co-organizer Henig, David)

2021    Ernest Gellner´s Legacy and Social Theory Today, 6-8.5.2021, Praha, organizing board member.

2021    6th Biennial conference of CASA, 17-18.4.2021, Praha, organizing board member.

2018    Thrift in Anthropology: Between Thriftiness and Wasting. Workshop held on 18-19.10.2018, Pilsen (co-organizer Hann, Chris)

2018    Joint Biennial Conference of the Slovak Association of Social Anthropology (SASA) and the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA): Vulnerability and Resilience: Adaptive Strategies and Global Change, 9-10.11.2018, Bratislava, organizing board member.

2016    4th Biennial Conference of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology: Ambiguity,  30.9-1.10.2016, Praha, organizing board member.

2013    Garbage and (Non)humans. Symposium held at the 19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 4-8.9.2013, Pilsen. (co-conveners Brunclíková, Lenka – Henig, David)

2012    Theory and method in the prehistoric archaeology of Central Europe, 24-26.10.2012, Mikulov, organizing board member.    

2010    First European Workshop of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, 22-24.9.2010, Pilsen. (co-organizers Lyon, Stephen – Henig, David)

2008    Looting and its Significance for Funerary Archaeology, Symposium held at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 26-30.3.2008, Vancouver, Canada.      

2004    The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain: The Körös Regional Archaeological Project, 2003, Symposium held at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 31.3-4.4.2004, Montreal, Canada. (co-convenor Parkison, William)  

Teaching

 2021–              Various invited single lectures for students at Charles, Masaryk, and Utrecht Universities, University of St’Andrews, and University of West Bohemia.  

2017–2021      External lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno.

2007–2018      Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen.

2010–2016      External lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Charles University, Prague.

2005–2007      Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen.

2002–2007      Various positions: Research & Teaching Assistant, Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

PhD Supervision

Barbora Stehlíková (2021-2024), Charles University

Pavel Mašek (2018-2023), University of West Bohemia

Lenka Brunclíková (2011-2015), University of West Bohemia