Mgr. Pavla Tomanová, Ph.D.

Biography

Pavla Tomanová graduated in Prehistory and Early Medieval Archeaeology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (FF UK) in 2012 and since then has been working at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague as a research assistant. In 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis “Origins of architectural traditions of Pre-Romanesque central-plan churches in Bohemia. Case study: St. Peter and Paul Rotunda” at Budeč at FF UK, Prague. Her research interests have always focused on Middle Ages, fortified central places, church archaeology, and research of historical building materials. In 2020–2022 she got an opportunity to take part at research project Possibilities of radiocarbon dating of historic mortars. Simultaneously, in 2012 and 2013 she got a work experience at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, thanks to the participation at the project RAMSES – Ultra-trace isotope research in social and environmental sciences using accelerator mass spectrometry. These opportunities brought her attention closer to radiocarbon dating, especially of architecture and historical mortars. Recently she was awarded postdoctoral scholarship on her own project “Radiocarbon dating rewrites (pre-)history? The impact of radiocarbon dating on archaeological paradigm shifts”. In addition to her scientific research activities, she also conducts rescue archaeological excavations and archaeological conservation care at the Prague Castle and its closest surrounding (Hradčany).

Academic profile:

• ASEP – Repository of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• Academia.edu
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• ORCID
• Web of Science