Notes on Contributors
Stefan Eichert
is researcher at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on archaeology and history of the Early Middle Ages in East Central Europe, experimental archaeology and digital humanities. He is currently working on a book about the development of the early medieval border region between Austria and the Czech Republic.
David Kalhous
is senior research fellow in the Institute for Medieval Studies of Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and in the Institute of Auxiliary Historical Sciences at Masaryk University, Brno. His research focuses on different aspects of medieval history (hagiography and historiography, beginnings of the monarchies, Christianisation and ecclesiastical structures, regional history).
Pavel Kouřil
is Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Brno). His research is focused on fortifications, burial grounds and material culture (weaponry and equestrian equipment) in the 8th to 12th centuries Central Europe (particularly Great Moravia).
Jiří Macháček
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology and the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University, Brno . He has published on medieval archaeology and computer applications on archaeolog.
Vladimír Sládek
is Associate Professor at Charles University in Prague. He obtained Ph.D. at the University of Bordeaux (2000). His research is focused on human evolution, postcranial variation in Holocene humans, paleodemographic assessments, and human taphonomy.
Ivo Štefan
is Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague. He is a scholar of medieval archaeology and the history of Central Europe.
Martin Wihoda
is Professor of Medieval History at Masaryk University, Brno. His research is focused on eastern Europe in the early and high Middle Ages.
Roman Zehetmayer
is director of the Provincial Archive of Lower Austria. A scholar of medieval constitutional history and of medieval Austria, he also teaches as an associate professor at the University of Vienna.