Dental calculus preserves information about past populations. This text aims to present the basic approaches to the rapidly developing research on this unique material and to provide recommendations for the analysis of dental calculus in archaeology, with a focus on obtaining the maximum amount of…

The last twenty years have seen significant development in bioarchaeological methods that have greatly increased knowledge of prehistory and early history worldwide. The area of modern China is no exception. Among the approaches mentioned, perhaps the most important contributions have come from…

This case study deals with the anthropological analysis of two individuals found in a common grave in the locality of Košice – Krásna, eastern Slovakia, particularly because of the unconventional burial, which is unusual for the Bronze Age burial rite. The results of the analyses indicate that the…

During the study of the collection of medieval glass in the depositary of the National Museum in Terezín, Hedvika Sedláčková noticed two cards to which glass fragments were attached with thin metal wire. They were lying on top of the box full of uncatalogued fragments marked to be thrown away. After…

This text deals with an unknown oil painting from the collections of the National Museum (Department of Older Czech History) representing the Allegory of Summer. It presents it as an early work by Frederik van Valckenborch (1566–1623) and his workshop, including Georg Flegel (1566–1638). The aim of…