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Michaela Kosová (Langová)

She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in archaeology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She completed her doctoral studies there in 2019, defending a dissertation titled "Settlement Structure of the Early Bronze Age in the Northeast Part of Central Bohemia – The Case Study of a Fortified Settlement in Brandýs nad Labem-Vrábí." Since 2012, she has been working at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, where she has contributed to numerous research projects (for a complete list, see the link below). In addition, she was employed at the East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice between 2019 and 2020.


She has long been engaged in research on the funerary rites of the Únětice culture and has contributed to the analysis of Únětice cemeteries in Brandýs nad Labem, Mikulovice, Kolín, and, most recently, Plotiště nad Labem. In addition to burial customs, her research focuses on Early Bronze Age fortified settlements. In 2023 and 2024, she was the principal investigator of a bilateral mobility project with Austria, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, titled "Re-connecting Partners from the Past: Contacts between Bohemia and Tyrol in the Early Bronze Age." Since 2023, she has been leading a project funded by the Czech Science Foundation: "Pottery as a Witness to Cultural Change? The Early Bronze Age Settlement Agglomeration in Plotiště nad Labem in the Light of Multidisciplinary Research." Additionally, since 2024, she has been a team member of a bilateral mobility project with Hungary, supported by the Academy of Sciences, titled "Beyond Borders: Investigating Early Bronze Age Contacts between Bohemia and Western Hungary."





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