Scientific collaboration on the project and the book “Material Finds from the Renaissance Waste Pits at Prague Castle”

Šárka Jonášová and Roman Skála of the Department of Analytical Methods participated in the post-doc project No. 13-34374P of the Czech Science Foundation “Everyday life of inhabitants of the Prague Castle in times of the first Habsburgs. Material culture analysis set into Central European context.” The principal investigator of the project, Gabriela Blažková of the Department of Rescue Research - Workplace Prague Castle of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, was awarded with the prize for outstanding results in solution of grant projects by the President of the Czech Science Foundation. Among the most important outputs of the project is the book “Material Finds from the Renaissance Waste Pits at Prague Castle” published by the Institute of Archaeology last year. The scientists of the Institute of Geology together with the Prize winner authored the chapter “A chemical analysis of glass finds from early modern waste pits at Prague Castle” (Blažková et al., 2016, Castrum Pragense 13/II). For more information, please visit the Institute of Archaeology of the CAS web pages.