doc. Mgr. Petr Pokorný, Ph.D.

Publications in the last 5 years (selected):

Pokorný P., Abraham V. (2025): Elbsandstein-und Lausitzer Gebirge, Polzengebiet und Jeschkengebirge. In Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Pp. 421-428.

Zampirolo G., Holman L.E., Sawafuji R., Ptáková M., Kovačiková L., Šída P., Pokorný P., Pedersen M.W., Walls M. (2024):Tracing early pastoralism in Central Europe using sedimentary ancient DNA. Current Biology 34:4650–4661.

Vondrovský V., Ptáková M., Šída P., Bumerl J., Pták M., Kovačiková L., Prach J., Novák J., Budilová K., Pokorný P. (2024): At the edge of Neolithic transition: strategies of the Linearbandkeramik farmers in South Bohemia (Czechia). Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.133.

Hošek J., Pokorný P., Storch D., Kvaček J., Havig J., Novák J., Hájková P., Jamrichová E., Brengman L., Radoměřský T., Křížek M., Magna T., Rapprich V., Laufek F., Hamilton T., Pack A., Di Rocco T., Horáček I. (2024): Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe. Science Advances 10/22, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6611

Pokorný P., Šída P., Ptáková M., Světlík I. (2023): A little luxury doesn’t hurt: Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) - an unexpected item in the diet of central European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 32: 253–262.

Prach J., Hošek J., Pokorná A., Hošková K., Pokorný P. (2023): Well-hidden forests? Modern pollen spectra from Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) contribute to the interpretation of the last glacial vegetation in Central Europe. Folia Geobotanica 58:89-107.

Abraham V., Man M., Theuerkauf M., Pokorný P., Bobek P., Novák J. (2023): Spatially explicit, quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation based on pollen or charcoal data as a tool for autecology of trees. Landscape Ecology 38: 1747-1763.

Abraham V., Macek M., Tkáč P., Novák D., Pokorný P., Kozáková R., Jamrichová E., Soukupová M. G, Kolář J. (2023): Pollen anthropogenic indicators revisited using large-scale pollen and archaeological datasets: 12,000 years of human-vegetation interactions in central Europe. Preslia 95: 385–411.

Ptáková M., Šída P., Vondrovský V., Pokorný P. (2023): Islands of Difference: An Ecologically Explicit Model of Central European Neolithisation, Environmental Archaeology 28:2, 124-132.

Hošková K., Neustupa J., Pokorný P., Pokorná A. (2022): Phylogenetic, ecological and intraindividual variability patterns in grass phytolith shape, Annals of Botany 129:303–314.

Varadzin L., Varadzinová L., Abdallah A., Abdallah B., Abdalla Mohammed M., Ambrose S., Burgert P., Černý M., D’Ercole G., Fuller D.Q., Garcea E.A.A., Hošek J., Hošková K., Jones M.B., Kapustka K., Madani Ahmed I., McCool J.-P., Hamdeed H.M., Novák J., Pokorná A., Pokorný P., Řídký J., Unger, J. (2022): The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan): Exploring prehistoric cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands. Antiquity, 1-7. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.148

Izdebski A., Guzowski P., Poniat R., Masci L., Palli J., Vignola C., Bauch M., Cocozza C., Fernandes R., Ljungqvist F.C., Newfield T., Seim A., Abel-Schaad D., Alba-Sánchez F., Björkman L., Brauer A., Brown A., Czerwiński S., Ejarque A., Fiłoc M., Florenzano A., Fredh E.D., Fyfe R., Jasiunas N., Kołaczek P., Kouli K.,1, Kozáková R., Kupryjanowicz M., Lagerås P., Lamentowicz M., Lindbladh M., López-Sáez J.A., Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger R., Marcisz K., Mazier F., Mensing S., Mercuri A.M., Milecka K., Miras Y., Noryśkiewicz A. M., Novenko E., Obremska M., Panajiotidis S., Papadopoulou M.L., Pędziszewska A., Pérez-Díaz S., Piovesan G., Pluskowski A., Pokorný P., Poska A., Reitalu T., Rösch M., Sadori L., Sá Ferreira C., Sebag D., Słowiński M., Stančikaitė M., Stivrins N., Tunno I., Veski S., Wacnik A., Masi A. (2022): Palaeoecological Data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:297-306.

Pokorný P., Bobek P., Šída P., Novák J., Ptáková M., Walls M. (2022): Managing wilderness? Holocene-scale, human-related disturbance dynamics as revealed in a remote, forested area in the Czech Republic. The Holocene 32:584-596.

Ptáková M., Pokorný P., Šída P., Novák J., Horáček I., Juřičková L., Meduna P., Bezděk A., Myšková E., Walls M., Poschlod P. (2021): From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders: a unique record of woodland use from eastern central Europe (Czech Republic). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30:269–286.

Hošek J., Verčík M., Pokorný P., Beneš J., Komárková V., Radoměřský T., Atanasoska N., Todoroska V., Ardjanliev P. (2021): Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia). Journal of Quaternary Science 36:1003-1012.

Roleček J., Abraham V., Vild O., Svobodová Svitavská H., Jamrichová E., Plesková Z., Pokorný P., Kuneš, P. (2021): Holocene plant diversity dynamics show a distinct biogeographical pattern in temperate Europe. Journal of Biogeography 48: 1366-1376.

Hošková K., Pokorná A., Neustupa J., Pokorný P. (2021): Inter- and intraspecific variation in grass phytolith shape and size: a geometric morphometrics perspective. Annals of Botany 127:191-201.

Kubovčík V., Hošek J., Heiri O., Rojik F., Vaterková S., Trubač J., Pokorný P. (2021): Chironomid-based temperature and environmental reconstructions of the Last Glacial Termination in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110239

Pokorný P., Storch D. (eds., 2020): Antropocén. Academia, Praha. 651 p.

Filipović D., Meadows J., Corso M.D., … Pokorný P., … et al. (2020): New AMS ¹⁴C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe. Scientific Reports 10, 13698.

Juřičková L., Šída P., Horáčková J., Ložek V., Pokorný P. (2020): The lost paradise of snails: Transformation of the middle-Holocene forest ecosystems in Bohemia, Czech Republic, as revealed by declining land snail diversity. The Holocene 30:1254-1265.