Mgr. Lenka Varadzinová Suková 
2.9.2015
Lenka Suková studied Egyptology and Indian Studies (specialisation in Hindi language) (master’s programme) and Egyptology (doctoral programme) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. In April 2015, she defended (in English) in front of a commission her dissertation entitled The rock art of Northeast Africa: A case study of rock paintings from the Czechoslovak Concession in Lower Nubia. Between 2003 and 2006, she worked in the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague as the curator of the Department of Prehistory and Ancient History of the Middle East and North Africa. Since 2007, she has been working as a researcher in the Czech Institute of Egyptology focusing on the economic, technological, cultural and social development in the region of Northeast Africa in the Early and Middle Holocene (ca. 9000–3000 BC) and processing the epigraphic and archaeological documentation from the research in Lower Nubia between 1961 and 1965. Since 2009, she has been directing the interdisciplinary research in the area of Jebel Sabaloka and the Sixth Nile Cataract in the Sudan and taking part in the exploration of the Institute´s second archaeological concession in the Sudan – at Usli.
A detailed CV with a complete list of publications and selected publications in the pdf format are available in her personal profile at Academia edu.
Education
2008 – 2015: PhD study of Egyptology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, with a doctoral dissertation project dealing with “The rock art of Northeast Africa as a source for our understanding the past cultural and social developments in the area”.
2002–2008: study of Egyptology and Indian Studies with a specialisation in Hindi language for a master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, completed by defence of the master’s degree work on “The rock art of Lower Nubia”.
1997–2001: study of Hindi language for a bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, completed by defence of the bachelor’s degree work on “The image of India in the Czech society and literature of the 19th century”.
Research projects
2009–2011: The Rock Art of Northeast Africa in the Context of Landscape and Archaeology (project No. GA UK č. 259 025)
Selected bibliography
Books
- Onderka P., Vrtal V. et al. 2014. Núbie. Země na křižovatce kultur / Nubia. A Land on the Crossroads of Cultures. Wad Ben Naga 2014. Praha: Národní muzeum.
- Dospěl M., Suková L., eds. 2013. Bahriya Oasis: Recent Research into the Past of an Egyptian Oasis. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts.
- Suková L. 2011. The Rock Art of Lower Nubia (Czechoslovak Concession). Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts.
- Suková L. 2011. The Rock Paintings of Lower Nubia (Czechoslovak Concession). Prague: Charles University in Prague.
- Lisá L., Suková L., Cílek V., Lisý P. 2011. Sabaloka a Šestý nilský katarakt. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze.
Studies and articles
- Suková L. in print. Pictures in place: a case study from Korosko (Lower Nubia). In: Origin and Early Development of Food Producing Culture in Northeastern Africa – 30 Years Later (Proceedings of the 2011 Dymaczewo conference). Poznań: Poznań Archaeological Museum.
- Suková L., Varadzin L. 2015. Výzkum lokality Sfinga (SBK.W-60) v pohoří Sabaloka v centrálním Súdánu: poznatky z výzkumné sezóny 2014. Pražské egyptologické studie XIV.
- Suková L., Sůvová Z., Cílek V., Odler M., Pokorný P., Varadzin L. 2015. Diskovité korálky ze skořápe pštrosích vajec z mezolitického sídliště Sfinga (SBK.W-60), pohoří Sabaloka (centrální Súdán). Pražské egyptologické studie XIV.
- Suková L., Varadzin L., Pokorný P. 2014. Prehistoric research at Jebel Sabaloka, Central Sudan (2011–2014). In: Sázelová S., Hupková A., Mořkovský T., eds. Mikulov Anthropology Meeting, 149–153. Brno.
- Sůvová Z., Suková L. 2014. Ryby a rybolov v súdánském mezolitu a neolitu: předběžné výsledky z pohoří Sabaloka. Pražské egyptologické studie XIII: 61–67.
- Cílek V., Adamovič J., Suková L. 2014. Sandstone columns of the 3rd Nile Cataract (Nubia, Northern Sudan). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 58, Suppl. 4, 149–163.
- Suková L. 2014. František Lexa v Egyptě. Zpráva o studijní cestě zakladatele egyptologie v Československu do Egypta v letech 1930–1931. Pražské egyptologické studie XII: 40–50.
- Dospěl M., Suková L. 2013. Exploration of the El-Hayz Oasis: Issues, approaches, challenges. In: Dospěl M., Suková L. eds., Bahriya Oasis: Recent Research into the Past of an Egyptian Oasis, 3–18. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts.
- Bárta M., Suková L., Brůna V. 2013. The latest explorations at Usli, Northern Province. Sudan & Nubia 17: 66–69.
- Suková L., Varadzin L. 2013. Od lovců k pastevcům: otázka neolitizace severovýchodní Afriky. Živá archeologie 15 (1): 25–31.
- Suková L., Varadzin L. 2012. Sabaloka Project: Exploration of Jebel Sabaloka (West Bank), 2009-2012. Sudan & Nubia 16: 118–131.
- Suková L., Varadzin L. 2012. Výzkum pravěkého osídlení v pohoří Sabaloka v centrálním Súdánu. Pražské egyptologické studie 10: 3–10.
- Suková L., Cílek V. 2012. The Landscape and Archaeology of Jebel Sabaloka and the Sixth Nile Cataract, Sudan. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology III (2): 189–201.
- Suková L. 2011. The “Venus” of Jebel Uweinat (SE Libya). Sahara 22: 117–124.