I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Taylor

I.2 - Name

Timothy

I.3 - Degrees

Univ. Prof., MA, PhD., FSA, FRSA.

I.4 - Year of birth

1960

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Gondova 2, 811 02

I.7 - Position

Professor

I.8 - E-mail address

timothy.taylor@uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/32790

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

historical sciences

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0002-6486-0427

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

B.A.: St John´s College, University of Cambridge

II.b - Year

1982

II.c - Study field and programme

Archaeology and Anthropology

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

M.A.: St John´s College, University of Cambridge

II.b - Year

1985

II.c - Study field and programme

Archaeology

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University of Bradford

II.b - Year

1995

II.c - Study field and programme

Archaeology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford

II.b - Year

2004

II.c - Study field and programme

Archaeology

II.5 - Professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Universität Wien

II.b - Year

2012

II.c - Study field and programme

Urgeschichte/Prehistory

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Randall MacIver Student in Archaeology	The Queen's College, University of Oxford	1985 - 1988
Junior Research Fellow in Archaeology	King's College, University of Cambridge	1988 - 1990
Lecturer	Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford	1990 - 2004
Reader	Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford	2004 - 2012
Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity	UHA, University of Vienna	2012 - 2020
Profesor	Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra archeológie a kultúrnej antropológie	2020-

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Palaeolithic	boAE	BA	Historical Studies
European Stone and Metal Ages	moAE	MA	Historical Studies

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.2.a - Name of the study programme	V.2.b - Degree	V.2.c - Field of study
Archaeology	I.	historical sciences
Archaeology	II.	historical sciences
General History	III.	historical sciences

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Introduction to archaeology	Archaeology	I.	Historical Sciences
Methodology of Archaeology	Archaeology	II.	Historical Sciences
Current topics in Central European archaeology	General History	III.	Historical Sciences
Current problems in theoretical archaeology	General History	III.	Historical Sciences
PHD Seminar 1, 2, 3	General History	III.	Historical Sciences

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

141

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

4000

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

784

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

478

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

203

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Taylor, T. (2010) : The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 256 s., ISBN: 978-0-230-61763-6. - zahraničná monografia (V1) - cca 200 cited

Taylor, T. (2002): The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. Hammersmith: Fourth Estate, 2002, 368 s., ISBN-13: 978-0007291472. zahraničná monografia (V1) - cca 240 times cited

Taylor, T. (1996) : The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture. London – New York: Fourth Estate – Bantam, 1996, 353 s., ISBN 1-857-02-352-8. zahraničná monografia (V1) - cca 360 times cited

Budd, P. – Taylor, T. (1995) : The faerie smith meets the bronze industry: Magic versus science in the interpretation of prehistoric metal‐making. In: World Archaeology, roč. 27, č. 1, 133 – 143. - zahraničná štúdia, WoS, Scopus (V3) - cca 370 times cited

Taylor, T. (2001) : Believing the ancients: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of slavery and the slave trade in later prehistoric Eurasia. In: World Archaeology, roč. 33, č. 1, 27 – 43. - zahraničná štúdia, WoS, Scopus (V3) - cca 90 times cited

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Jakobitsch, T., Heiss, A.G., Kowarik, K. et al. Food and farming beyond the Alpine lake zone: the archaeobotany of the Copper Age settlements of Lenzing-Burgstall and Ansfelden-Burgwiese in Upper Austria, and an early occurrence of Triticum spelta (spelt). Veget Hist Archaeobot 31, 123–136 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00843-0 zahraničná štúdia, WoS, Scopus (V3)

Taylor, T. (2021) The arrogation of slavery: prehistory, archaeology, and pre-theoretical commitments concerning people as property. In F. Biermann & M. Jankowiak (eds) The Archaeology of Slavery in Early medieval Northern Europe: the Invisible Commodity. Springer: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology: 7–19. - príspevok v zahraničnom zborníku (Springer) (V3)

Ventresca Miller, A. R. – Johnson, J. A. – Makhortykh, S. – Litvinova, L. – Taylor, T. – Rolle, R. – Makarewicz, C. A. (2019): Mobility and Diet in the Iron Age Pontic Forest-Steppe: A multi-isotopic study of Urban Populations at Bel’sk. In: Archaeometry 61 (2019), 1 – 18. zahraničná štúdia, WoS, Scopus (V3)

Taylor, T. (2019): Power, play, and interplay: the prehistory of sexuality. In: Henley, T. – Rossano, M. – Kardas, E. (eds.) Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology: Psychology in Pre-History. Routledge, 2019, 398 – 412, ISBN 9781138594517. - kapitola v zahraničnej monografii (V2)

Tilman, B., Mainberger, M., Taylor, T., Willy, T., Hafner, A., Ebersbach, R. (2020): How many, how far? Quantitative models of Neolithic land use for six wetland sites on the northern Alpine forelands between 4300 and 3700 BC. In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Vol. 29., Issue 6, P. 621 - 639. WoS, Scopus.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

The Prehistory of Sex : Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture. New York – Toronto – London – Sydney – Auckland : Bantam, 1996, 353 s., cit. 1999 : Pearson, M. P. : The archaeology of death and burial. Texas A&M University Press, 95, 100, 104, 109.

The Buried Soul : How Humans Invented Death. London – New York : Fourth Estate, 2002, 353 s., cit. 2009 : Gambetta, D. : Codes of the Underworld. How Criminals Communicate, Princeton University Press, 188, 189.

The Artificial Ape : How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 256 s., cit. 2012 : Barkley, R. A. : Executive Functions : What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved. The Guilford Press, 41, 72, 146.

Believing the Ancients: Quantitative and Qualitative Dimensions of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Later Prehistoric Eurasia. World Archaeology 33 (June 2001), s. 27–43, cit. 2011 : Mirzoeff, N. : The right to look. In: Critical Inquiry 37/ 3 (2011), s. 481.

Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104 (2007), 16456-16461, cit. 2015 : Makarewicz, C. – Sealy, J. : Dietary reconstruction, mobility, and the analysis of ancient skeletal tissues? Expanding the prospects of stable isotope research in archaeology. In: Journal of Archaeological Science 56 (2015), s. 153.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

2015 – 2020: Archäologische Prospektion oberösterreichischer Pfahlbauten (Universität Wien; Oö Kulturdirektion; LBIArchPro): rozpočet €530.000; výkonný riaditeľ.

2014 – 2020: Oö Forschungsausgrabung und Landesaustellung 2020 (Universität Wien): rozpočet €125.000; hlavný riešiteľ.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
Assistant Editor	Antiquity	1990-1992
Editorial Board Member	New Directions in Archaeology monograph series, Cambridge University Press	1988-2005
National Committee Member	UK Theoretical Archaeology Research Group (TAG)	1994-2012
Member	Edge.org	1999- present
Fellow (FSA)	Society of Antiquaries of London	2002-present

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution	VIII.b - Address of the institution	VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay)	VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Department of Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, University of Vienna	Vienna, Austria,	2002-2003	Guest professor
Kliment Ohridski University	Sofia, Bulgaria	1985	British Council Visiting Student

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Reviewer, international academic presses (including OUP, CUP, Blackwell, Yale, Routledge, etc.);

Grant application assessor: Volkswagen Stiftung, European Research Council, etc.

Assessor/Accreditor: Globe Institute, Copenhagen (2022-23); British Academy Fellowship appointment processes, etc.

Date of last update

2025-02-27

Name and surname:	prof. Timothy Forbes Taylor, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava