Ladislav Smejda

Researcher (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)

BIO

Ladislav Smejda is a researcher at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague and an Associate Professor at the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. His research centres on human ecology, social change and human mortuary behaviour. He is interested in systemic and spatial analyses of historic populations and utilizes a range of theoretical and methodological approaches in his surveys and excavations conducted in Europe and in the Near East.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Šmejda, L., Hejcman, M., Horák, J., & Shai, I. (2018). Multi-element mapping of anthropogenically modified soils and sediments at the Bronze to Iron Ages site of Tel Burna in the southern Levant. Quaternary International, 483, 111-123. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.005
  2. Horák, J., Janovský, M., Hejcman, M., Šmejda, L., & Klír, T. (2018). Soil geochemistry of medieval arable fields in Lovětín near Třešť, Czech Republic. CATENA, 162, 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.11.014
  3. Smejda, L., Hejcman, M., Horak, J., & Shai, I. (2017). Ancient settlement activities as important sources of nutrients (P, K, S, Zn and Cu) in Eastern Mediterranean ecosystems – The case of biblical Tel Burna, Israel. CATENA, 156, 62-73. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.03.024