Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Alušík, Ph.D.

Tomáš Alušík graduated from classical archaeology (MA – 2001) and got his PhD. in the same field of study (2005) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. During his doctoral study he was awarded with a one-semester scholarship of the AKTION Czech Republic-Austria Fund at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna (2004), and with a one-month scholarship of Cypriot A. G. Leventis Foundation at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia (2005). After the graduation, Tomáš Alušík spent several years engaged in cultural heritage protection and UNESCO World Heritage Sites management. Since 2015 he has been employed at the Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, where became the Associate Professor in 2019.

Since he graduated with Master’s degree he has been involved in research of the prehistory of the Aegean and Cyprus, particularly in the prehistoric archaeology of Crete and the Cycladic islands. His doctoral dissertation entitled “Defensive architecture of prehistoric Crete” was published in May 2007 in Archaeopress publishing house in Oxford. Recently he has also been dealing with the 3D reconstructions of archaeological sites, history of classical archaeology, biocodicology and especially with the archaeology of medicine in the prehistory and Classical Antiquity, osteoarchaeology and palaeopathology.

At present, he is dealing with palaeopathology and archaeology of medicine in the prehistoric and Classical Greece from an interdisciplinary perspective based on the use of modern archaeometric methods and combining testimony of diverse sources, both archaeological (including human skeletal remains) as well as literary. Tomáš Alušík is a director of the project of the re-identification and new classification of all preserved artefacts from the sites of Asklepieion-Pythion (Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project) and the sanctuary of Eileithyia on Paros Island (Cyclades, Greece). He is a co-director (together with Dr. Andonis Vasilakis, Honorary Ephor of Antiquities of Greece) of The Porti-Miamou Project, focused on the surface documentation of all preserved remains of architecture, i.e. creation of the new up-to-date site plans, and a small-scale archaeological surface survey of the vicinity of two prehistoric sites in central Crete – Porti and Miamou. The field seasons were conducted in 2015 and 2016, the processing of the finds has been carried out since 2017. Since 2021 he has also been involved in the analyses of sediments from historical (especially ancient) water supply systems. Since 2023 he has been the director of the project focused on the study and publishing of human skeletal remains from the ancient Greek city-state of Megara, about 40 km northwest of Athens – Life and Death in Ancient Megara Project – together with Christina Kazazaki, MA, (Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica) and Dr. Anna Pankowska (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen).

During his academic activity he has been regularly participating in the field research (excavations and surface surveys) and museum study seasons in Turkey (Istanbul, 2006-2013) and Greece (since 2007, on 9 islands: Crete, Evia, Keros and Dhaskalio, Karpathos, Naxos, Amorgos, Paros and Kato Koufonisi). Tomáš Alušík participated actively in more than 35 international conferences (mostly abroad – e.g., in Athens, Oxford, Vienna or Herakleion). He published 2 monographs, co-authored 3 collective edited monographs and is an author of more than 50 academic papers (published mostly in foreign journals or conference proceedings). His papers appear in the publications focused not only on the archaeology, but also architecture, medicine and photogrammetry.

Selected bibliography: https://cuni.academia.edu/TomasAlusik

  • Alušík, T. – Alušíková Dostalíková, P. 2025: Otto Rubensohn’s Excavations on Paros I: The Sanctuaries on Kounados Hill. Archaeopress, Oxford.
  • Alušík, T., 2007: Defensive Architecture of Prehistoric Crete. BAR IntSer 1637, Archaeopress, Oxford.
  • Alušík, T. – Alušíková Dostalíková, P., 2024: Antická svatyně boha lékařství Asklépia na ostrově Paros v Řecku [Ancient Sanctuary of Asclepius, god of medicine, on the island of Paros (Greece)]. Časopis lékařů českých [Journal of Czech Physicians] 163 (6)/2024, p. 250-258.
  • Alušík, T., 2023: Fortifications and Defensive Architecture. In: Kvapil, L. A. – Shelton, K. (eds.): Brill’s Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean. Leiden – Boston, p. 25-88.
  • Vasilakis, A. – Alušík, T. – Charamis, P. – Semerád, M. – Šmejda, L. – Kritikopoulou, E. – Alušíková Dostalíková, P. 2019: The Porti-Miamou Project 2015-2016: 2015 Season Preliminary Report. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies, Heraklion, 21.-25.9.2016. 12iccs.proceedings.gr
  • Alušík, T., 2018: Literární prameny k řecké medicíně prehistorického a „temného“ období (do roku 600 př. Kr.) [Literary Sources on Greek Medicine of Prehistoric Era and the ‘Dark’ Age (Before 600 BCE)]. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis LVII (1)/2018, pp. 49-58.
  • Alušík, T., 2015: Skull Trepanations in Bronze Age Greece: An Archaeologist’s View. World Neurosurgery 84, 2, August 2015, pp. 214-217. Doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.02.010. [IF 2.417]
  • Alušík, T. (with contribution by M. Chalupka and D. Kopernicky), 2011: 3D Virtual Reconstructions of Minoan Rural Sites: The Case of Livari Cheromylia (East Crete). In: Remondino, F. – El-Hakim, S. (eds.): Proceedings of the 4th ISPRS International Workshop 3D-ARCH 2011: “3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures”, Trento, Italy, 2-4 March 2011. International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XXXVIII-5/W16 (http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XXXVIII-5-W16/)