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Mgr. Jan Turek Ph.D.

3.2.2015

Czech archaeologist and a Lecturer at the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague and Department of Archaeology, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He studied in Prague and Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) and Sheffield. Since 1993 he organized several research and field projects, published several books and numerous academic papers. Since 1998 he lectured Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeological Theory at University of Sheffield and Cambridge (UK), Pilsen, Hradec Kralove and Olomouc (CZ), Universite Paris 10 Nanterre (FR). In 2007 he was awarded the Ian Potter Research Fellowship at the Flinders University, Adelaide (South Australia). He has also been a visiting lecturer at Freien Universität in Berlin (GER), the University of Siena (IT); New Delhi (India) and American University in Rome (IT).
Jan Turek is specialist in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Europe and Mediterranean, especially in regards to the reconstruction of social and gender structure and symbolic systems of prehistoric communities. This includes an interest in continuity and change in funerary practices, settlement pattern and artefacts, including the Egyptian Old Kingdom pottery.
In 2008 he was elected Senior representative of the World Archaeological Congress Council. Since 2013 he is Editor-in-Chief of Archaeologies, Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (Springer U.S.A, ISSN 1555-8622).

A link to personal profile at Academia.edu.

Complete bibliography here in pdf.

Selected bibliography

Monographs

• Šmejda, V. - Turek, J. (eds.) 2004: Spatial Analysis of Funerary areas, Plzeň.
• Šmejda, V. – Turek, J. – Thrane, H. (eds.) 2006: Archaeology of Burial Mounds, Dryada, Plzeň.
• Turek, J. (ed.) 2013: Abstracts. 19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists 2013 Pilsen, Czech Republic. University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Plzeň.
• Kristian Kristiansen; Ladislav Šmejda; Jan Turek (Eds.) 2014: Paradigm Found: Archaeological Theory – Present, Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný, Oxbowbooks, Oxford.
  ISBN: 9781782977704
• Bartelheim, M. – Peška, J. – Turek, J. (eds.) 2013: From Copper to Bronze. Cultural and Social Transformations at the Turn of the 3rd/2nd Millennia B.C. in Central Europe. Gewidmet PhDr. Václav Moucha, CSc. anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstages. Beitrage zur Ur-und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 74, Beier&Beran. Archäologische Fachliteratur, Langenweissbach.

Syntheses

• Turek, J. 2005: Praha kamenná. Neolit – mladší doba kamenná; Eneolit – pozdní doba kamenná, in: Lutovský, M. – Smejtek, L. (eds.): Pravěká Praha, Libri, Praha, 157-348.
• Turek, J. 2008: 5.3 Kultura zvoncovitých pohárů, in: Neustupný, E. 2008 (ed.): Čechy v Pravěku 4 – Eneolit, Praha, Archeologický ústav v.v.i., 98-111, Tab. 50-59.

Papers

• Turek, J. 2015a: Bell Beaker stone wristguards as symbolic male ornament. The significance of ceremonial warfare in the 3rd millennium BC Central EuropeMaria Pilar Prieto Martínez & Laure Salanova (Eds.): The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe: Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC, Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN: 9781782979272
• Turek, J. 2014a: New evidence of FBC longhouses in Central Bohemia, In: Martin Furholt, Martin Hinz, Doris Mischka, Gordon Noble, Deborah Olausson (eds.): Landscapes, Histories and Societies in the Northern European Neolithic, Frühe Monumentalität, Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn, 219 - 225.
• Turek, J. 2014b: Lost and found paradigms: Creation of the Beaker World, In: Kristian Kristiansen; Ladislav Šmejda; Jan Turek (Eds.): Paradigm Found: Archaeological Theory – Present, Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný, Oxbowbooks, Oxford 265-279.
  ISBN: 9781782977704
• Turek, J. 2014c: Social Foundations of the Beaker Phenomenon – In: Marie Besse (ed.): Around the Petir-Chasseur Site in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) and New Approaches to the Bell Beaker Culture. Proceedings of the International Conference held at Sion (Switzerland) October 27th – 30th, 2011, Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 285-293.
• Turek, J. 2013a: Children in the burial rites of complex societies – In: Paulina Romanowicz (ed.).: Workshop of the Archaeology of Childhood. The child and childhood in the light of the archeology - problems and research perspectives. Małkocin 5.- 6. listopadu 2012.
• Turek, J. 2013b: Na prahu nového řádu. První tvůrci chrámů a keramiky (10 000-4000 př. Kr.), In: Bárta, M. – Kovář, M. (eds.): Civilizace a dějiny. Historie světa pohledem dvaceti českých vědců. Academia, Praha, 71-110.
• Turek, J. 2013f: Echoes and Traditions of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon, In: From Copper to Bronze. Cultural and Social Transformations at the Turn of the 3rd/2nd Millennia B.C. in Central Europe. Gewidmet PhDr. Václav Moucha, CSc. anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstages. Herausgegeben von Martin Bartelheim, Jaroslav Peška, Jan Turek, Beitrage zur Ur-und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 74, Beier&Beran. Archäologische Fachliteratur, Langenweissbach, 9–23.
• Turek, J. 2013g: Age and Gender Identities in European Copper Age: An Anthropological Perspective, Indian Anthropologist, Vol. 43, No. 2, July - December 2013, New Dehli. 73 - 86.
• Turek, J. 2012a: Origin of the Bell Beaker phenomenon - the Moroccan connection. In: Harry Fokkens – Franco Nicolis: Bell beakers in Transition, Sidestone Press, Leiden, 155-167.
• Turek, J. 2012b: Periferie fenoménu zvoncovitých pohárů, Periphery of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon Archeologie ve středních Čechách 16, 183-193, fototab. 1.
• Turek, J. 2012e: The Neolithic Enclosures in Transition. Tradition and Change in the Cosmology of Early Farmers in Central Europe, In: Alex Gibson (ed.): Enclosing the Neolithic: Recent studies in Britain and Europe, British Archaeological Reports – International Series 2440, Archaeopress, Oxford, 185-201.
• Turek, J. 2011c: Age and Gender identities and the social differentiation in the Central European Copper Age, In: Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer, Nicole Engel and Sean Pickering (eds.): Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Identity Proceedings of the 42nd (2009) Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference, Chacmool Archaeological Association, University of Calgary, 49-61.
• Turek, J. 2011d: Stone axes of Bohemian Eneolithic Period. Changing forms, context and social significance. In: Davis, V. & Edmonds, M. : Stone Axe Studies III, Oxbow Books, 385-398.
• Turek, J. 2011g: Poháry místo monumentů. Tradice a změny ve společnosti a kosmologii evropských zemědělců ve 3. tisíciletí před Kristem. In: Bárta, M. – Kovář, M. (eds): Kolaps a regenerace: Cesty civilizací a kultur. Minulost, současnost a budoucnost komplexních společností. Academia, Praha, 69-105.
• Turek, J. – Peška, J. – Matějíčková, A. 2011: Visible and invisible monuments. Late Eneolithic burial mounds in forested areas of Central Moravia, In: Ancestral Landscapes.TMO 61, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, 2011, 107-118. 978-2-35668-022-8
• Turek, J. 2008a: Significance of cremation in the funerary practices of the Bell Beaker Eastern Province, in: M. Baioni – V. Leonini – D. Lo Vetro – F. Martini – R. Poggiani Keller – L. Sarti (eds.): Bell Beaker in everyday life, Proceedings of the 10th Meeting „Archéologie et Gobelets“, Florence - Siena – Villanova sul Clisi, May 12-15, 2006, Firenze, 271-279.
• Turek, J. 2008c: Pohřebiště z období zvoncovitých pohárů v Praze II. Katalog a diskuse o vzniku a původu nejstarších zvoncovitých pohárů - Cemeteries of the Bell Beaker Period in Prague II. Catalogue and discussion on the rise and origin of the earliest Bell Beakers, Archaeologica Pragensia 19. 31-104.
• Turek, J. 2006a: Bell Beaker gendered cups in central Europe, In: Alex Gibson (ed.): Prehistoric Pottery: Some Recent Research. Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group: Occasional Paper 5 British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1509, Oxford, 63-68.
• Turek, J. 2006b: Období zvoncovitých pohárů v Evropě – Bell Beaker period in Europe, Archeologie ve středních Čechách 10, 275-368.
• Turek, J. 2006d: Beaker barrows and the houses of dead, In: Šmejda, V. – Turek, J. – Thrane, H. (eds.): Archaeology of Burial Mounds, Dryada, Plzeň, 170 – 179.
  Turek, J. 2005b: Pohřebiště z období zvoncovitých pohárů v Praze. I. Hloubětín, Kobylisy, Prosek, Vysočany a Záběhlice, Archaeologica Pragensia 17, Praha 2007, 65-104, 233-238.
• Turek, J. 2004: Craft symbolism in the Bell Beaker burial customs. Resources, production and social structure at the end of Eneolithic period. In: Marie Besse & Jocelyne Desideri (eds): Graves and Funerary Rituals during the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age in Europe (2700-2000 BC) Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Cantonal Archaeological Museum, Sion (Switzerland) October 4th –7th 2001. British Archaeological Reports (International Series) 1284, 147-156, Archaeopress, Oxford.
• Turek, J. 2002: „Cherche la femme!“ Archeologie ženského světa a chybějící doklady ženských pohřbů z období zvoncovitých pohárů v Čechách. „Cherche la femme!“. The Archaeology of woman’s world and the missing evidence of female burials in the Bell Beaker Period in Bohemia, In: Evžen Neustupný (ed): Archeologie nenalézaného, Plzeň – Praha, 217-240.
• Turek, J. 2001a: Stone axes as tools, valuables and symbols (3300-1900 BC). In: Georghiu, D. (ed.): Material, Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationship between Objects, British Archaeological Reports 953 (IS), Archaeopress, Oxford, 53-62.
• Turek, J. 2001b: Late Eneolithic mortuary practices and their social significance, In: F. Berthemes, – P. Biehl – H. Meller (eds): The Archaeology of Cult and religion, Archaeolingua Budapest, 219-234.
  Turek, J. - Černý, V. 2001: Society, gender and sexual dimorphism of the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker populations. In: Franco Nicolis (ed): Bell Beakers today. Pottery, people, culture, symbols in prehistoric Europe. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Riva del Garda (Trento, Italy) 11-16 May1998, Trento, 601-612.
• Turek, J. 2000: Being a Beaker child. The position of children in Late Eneolithic society. In: In Memoriam Jan Rulf, Památky archeologické - Supplementum 13, Praha, 422-436.
• Černý, V. - Houët, F. - Turek, J. 1999: Détermination du sexe par la méthode itérative et le dimorphisme sexuel du squelette post-cranien d'une population du Chalcolithique récent et du Bronze ancien de la Bohème. Iteraitve method of sex determination and sex dimorphism of post-cranial skeletal remains from Late Eneolithic and Bronze Age population from Bohemia. In: Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société D’Anthropologie de Paris, n.s. t. 11, 3-4, 383-404.
• Turek, J. 1998: The Bell Beaker Period in north-west Bohemia. In: Benz, Marion and Willigen, Samuel van (eds): Some New Approaches to The Bell Beaker ‘Phenomenon’ Lost Paradise...?, 107-119, BAR International Series 690, Oxford.
• Turek, J. 1996: Osídlení Pražské‚ kotliny v závěru eneolitu. Nástin problematiky období zvoncovitých pohárů. The Prague region in the Late Eneolithic period. Archeologica Pragensia 12, 5-58.
• Turek, J. 1995: Sídlištní nálezy kultuy se šňůrovou keramikou v Čechách. Otázka charakteru hospodářství v závěru eneolitu. The first evidence of Bohemian Corded Ware Settlements and the question of their economy, Archeologické rozhledy 47, 91-101.