Jan started following the work of Peter Stadler, University of Vienna, Ur- und Frühgeschichte.
Jan added a teaching document.
Jan started following the work of Jana Mellnerová Šuteková, Comenius University, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy.
Faculty Member, Deapartment of Archaeology
About
Jan Turek
Statement of Research Interests
Neolithic and Eneolithic of Central Europe
My main research interests lie in the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Central Europe from the LBK to Bell Beaker periods. Within this broad time frame I have focused my attention on the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker periods in particular. My research in these periods addresses two main themes. First the reconstruction of social relations through mortuary data. Second, modelling settlement patterns.
My research on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker burial has involved the creation of the first comprehensive database of Bohemian material derived from published and unpublished data in museum and archive reports. This required considerable examination of the archaeological finds themselves. The database will be used as the basis for a complex analysis of the correlations between different variables within the burial rite and their comparison both within the Czech Republic and with material from Hungary, Austria, Bavaria and Central Germany. So far I have examined the statistical association of artefacts with male and female skeletons and the division of these same artefacts in the graves of children in the Czech Republic. This has led me to start considering the position of children in Corded Ware and Beaker society in Bohemia.
Eneolithic settlements in Bohemia and Moravia have often been considered archaeologically invisible. My research is inspired by work in Anglo-American archaeology and uses the distribution of artefact scatters to create theoretical models of settlement patterns and land use. I have been particularly concerned with comparing these models between periods in order to explore continuity and change in the symbolic and economic use of land. The initial results of this work suggest that the modelled Eneolithic settlement patterns do not greatly differ from those of the preceding Neolithic farming communities. This is significant as it revises previous conceptions regarding dramatically different economic strategies and discontinuity between the Neolithic and the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker periods.
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