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Evžen Neustupný was born in Prague, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia), in 1933. He studied prehistory and Egyptology at the Charles University in Prague and received his Ph.D. in prehistoric archaeology in 1957. Until 1966, he worked with rescue excavations of endangered sites at the Most branch of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czechoslovak Academy. He returned to Prague in 1966, and until 1998, he worked in the Institute mainly on archaeological theory and served from 1990 to 1993 as its director. At the same time, Neustupný was a member of the presidium of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1998, he was the founding director and full professor of the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His specialization is archaeological theory and method, and the prehistory and protohistory of Central Europe ranging from the Neolithic to the Medieval periods.
Neustupný has published five monographs, three edited...
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References
Bucha, V. & E. Neustupny. 1967. Changes of the earth’s magnetic field and radiocarbon dating. Nature 215: 261-263.
Kuna, M. 2012. Intransigent archaeology. An interview with Evžen Neustupný on his life in archaeology. Archaeological Dialogues 19(1): 3-28.
Neustupny, E. 1967. K počátkům patriarchátu ve střední Evropě [The beginnings of patriarchy in central Europe]. Rozpravy ČSAV 77(2): 79.
- 1970. The accuracy of radiocarbon dating, in I.U. Olsson (ed.) Nobel symposium 12: 23-34. Stockholm.
- 1971. Wither archaeology? Antiquity 45: 34-39.
- 1981. Zachování kostí z pravěkých sídlišť [Destruction of bones in prehistoric sites]. Archeologické rozhledy 33(2): 154-165.
- 1993. Archaeological method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2001. The origin of Megalithic architecture in Bohemia and Moravia, in P. Biehl, F. Bertemes &H. Meller (ed.) The archaeology of cult and religion: 203-207. Budapest: Archaeolingua.
- 2007. Metoda archeologie [Method of archaeology]. Plzeň.
- 2010. Teorie archeologie [Theory of archaeology]. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk.
Neustupny, E. & J. Neustupny. 1961. Czechoslovakia before the Slavs. London: Thames and Hudson.
Further Reading
Kuna, M. & N. Venclova. (ed.) 1995 Whither archaeology? Papers in honour of Evžen Neustupný. Prague: Institute of Archaeology.
Neustupny, E. 1982. Prehistoric migrations by infiltration. Archeologické rozhledy 34: 278-298.
- 1995. The significance of facts. Journal of European Archaeology 3(1): 189-212.
- 1998. Otherness in prehistoric times, in L. Larsson (ed.) The world-view of prehistoric man: 65-71. Lund. The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
- 2000. The measure of deforestation in prehistoric Central Europe, in A. Buko & P. Urbańczyk (ed.) Archeologia w teorii i praktyce: 345-352. Warszawa.
- 2002. Czech archaeology at the turn of the millennium, in P.F. Biehl, A. Gramsch & A. Marciniak (ed.) Archaeologies of Europe. History, methods and theories: 283-288. Münster, New York: Waxmann.
- (ed.) 2008. Archeologie pravěkých Čech 4. Eneolit [Archaeology of prehistoric Bohemia 4. Eneolithic]. Praha.
Neustupny, E. (ed.) 1998. Space in prehistoric Bohemia. Praguea: Institute of Archaeology.
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Biehl, P.F. (2014). Neustupný, Evžen. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_319
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