Slavomil Vencl

Slavomil Vencl (born October 18, 1936 in Dlouhá Třebová / Langentriebe in Eastern Bohemia ; † June 23, 2019 ) was a Czech archaeologist .

Vencl studied archeology at the Charles University in Prague from 1954 to 1959 , where he received his doctorate in 1968. In 1959 he worked in the National Museum there , but moved to the Institute of Archeology that same year. From 1979 to 2002 he held various chairs, including in France and Great Britain, and from 1998 to 2001 was a lecturer at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen .

His original focus was on the Neolithic and the Copper Age , but he increasingly turned to the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic . He became internationally known for his ultimately rejected dating of the oldest tool find in the Czech Republic at the Beroun motorway site and for his overview of the prehistory of Bohemia.

Vencl was editor of the journals Výzkumy v Čechách (1968–1970) and Archeologické rozhledy (1973–1985). From 1998 he was a member of the Učené společnosti České republiky , the learned society of the Czech Republic .

His wife was the archaeologist Natalie Venclova .

Publications (selection)

• Kamenné nástroje prvních zemědělců ve střední Evropě , in: Sborník Národního muzea v Praze 14A, 1-2 (1960). (Stone tools of the earliest farmers in Europe)
• The late Paleolithic in Bohemia , in: Anthropologie 8,1 (1970) 3-68.
• with Miroslav Buchvaldek (Ed.): Přehled pravěku světa , Prague 1976. (Overview of worldwide archaeological research)
• K otázce zániku sběračsko-loveckých culture , in: Archeologické rozhledy 34 (1982) 648–694 (on the end of the hunter-gatherer cultures).
• War and Warfare in Archeology , in: Journal of Anthropological Archeology 6 (1984) 116-132.
• The role of hunting-gathering populations in the transition to farming: a Central European perspective , in: Marek Zvelebil (Ed.): Hunters in Transition , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986, pp. 43-51.
• with Jan Fridrich: Investigations into the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, 1969–1993 , in: 25 years of archeological research in Bohemia, Památky archeologické - Supplementa 1 , 1994, pp. 11–22.
• The Archeology of Thirst , in: Journal of European Archeology 2/2 (1994) 299-326.
• with O. Fejfar, M. Malkovský, E. Neustupný: Hostim - Magdalenian in Bohemia , Prague 1995.
• Late Upper and Late Paleolithic in the Czech Republic , in: Folia Quaternaria 70 (1999) 289-296.
• with Karel Valoch: The Paleolithic and Mesolithic Settlement of the Ládví Hill in Prague 8-Ďáblice , in: Památky archeologické 92 (2001) 5–73.
• Nejstarší osídlení jižních Čech. Paleolit ​​a mezolit , Prague 2006. (on the earliest settlement of Bohemia)
• (Ed.): The Prehistory of Bohemia , Vol. 1: Palaeolithic and Mesolithic , Prague 2013.

literature

• Karel Sklenář: Biografický slovník českých, moravských a slezských archeologů , Prague 2005, p. 615 f. (biographical dictionary of Czech, Moravian and Silesian archaeologists)

Web links

• Vencl Slavomil , website of the learned society of the Czech Republic, engl. version