Adam Pažout

I am MSCA Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with project ‘VIA-TARIQ: Analysing long-term change and persistency of the Roman road system in the Levant.’ My research interests are Roman and post-Roman roads, development of settlement structures, economic history, as well as landscape archaeology and digital methods in archaeological research in general (predominantly GIS and network science).

Mgr. Adam Pažout, Ph.D.

Address: Campus UAB, Edifici B Carrer de la Fortuna s/n.- Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)

E-Mail: adam.pazout@uab.cat; A.Pazout@seznam.cz

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7745-5634

Scopus ID: 57202368593

Academia: https://au.academia.edu/AdamPažout

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Pazout

Google Scholar: Citations: 61, h-index: 4

Education

1/10/2015 – 7/7/2020 PhD, Archaeology, University of Haifa Dissertation topic: Military Architecture and Regional Infrastructure in the Golan from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Period: A Geospatial Study of Hippos-Sussita Region
21/9/2012 – 17/6/2015 Mgr., Classical Archaeology (summa cum laude), Charles University Thesis: Spatial analysis of Early Roman fortifications in Northern Negev
8/9/2009 – 13/9/2012 Bc., Classical Archaeology (summa cum laude), Charles University Thesis: Building program of King Herod the Great

Employment and professional experience

4/9/2024 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellow Project ‘VIA-TARIQ: Analysing the long-term change and persistency of the Roman road system in the Levant’ Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
1/5/2024 – 31/7/2024 Research Assistant Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University
1/9/2021 – 29/2/2024 Post-doctoral Researcher Project MINERVA: Understanding the centuries-long functioning of the Roman economy (PI Tom Brughmans) Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus University
1/1/2021 – 21/12/2023 Research Fellow Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa
1/2/2020 – 30/6/2021 Junior Lecturer, Research Assistant Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University
1/5/2017 – 30/4/2020 Adjunct Researcher Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa
  Excavations Co-director Hippos Regional Research (together with Michael Eisenberg and Mechael Osband)
30/6/2014 – 30/11/2019 Area supervisor Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project
1/10/2014 – 30/9/2015 Digital documentation laboratory technician Labrys o.p.s
21/9/2012 – 30/9/2013 Co-librarian Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University
2008 – 2014 Field technician Various research and salvage excavations (Czech Republic, Israel, Uzbekistan)

Teaching

2023 “Roads and Transport” class, BA course “Topic in Classical Archaeology Ancient economies”, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University

2021/2023 “Limes Arabicus” class, MA course “Roman frontiers”, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University

2020 “The Decapolis: History and Archaeology” MA course, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University

Communication and dissemination activities

  • Preparation of a museum exhibition “Roman Roads and Transport”, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University (Autumn 2023)
  • Workshop organizer, “Roads, economy, and travel in the Roman world: where are we now?” Workshop hosted by projects MINERVA, Viator-e, TIR-FOR, organizers: Tom Brughmans (Aarhus University), Adam Pažout (Aarhus University), Pau de Soto (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Marta Prevosti Monclús (Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, Institut d’Estudis Catalans), Barcelona, Spain, 24-25 November 2022

Additional activities

  • 2022-2023 Supervision and management of student workers and interns in the project MINERVA

Awards

  • Seal of Excellence HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01 — MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022, project 101110275 “VIA-TARIQ: Analysing the long-term change and persistency of the Roman road system in the Levant”

Conference participation

  • LIMES Congress XXVI 2024, Batumi, Georgia, “Wheels or no wheels? suitability of roads for vehicular traffic in Judaea and Arabia.” (with Tom Brughmans)
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology 2023 “50 Years of Synergy”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, “Putting the donkey before the cart: exploring Roman roads using large digital road dataset.” (with Tom Brughmans)
  • 28th EAA Annual Meeting: Reintegration 2022, Budapest, Hungary, “New or old? Exploring the construction and continuity of the Roman road network in the southern Levant.” (with Tom Brughmans and Pau de Soto)
  • LIMES Congress XXV 2022, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, “’Take me home, Roman road’: A model of the Roman terrestrial transport network, Challenges of data collection.” (with Tom Brughmans and Pau de Soto)
  • Computer Applications in Archaeology 2022 “Inside Information”, Oxford, UK, “MINERVA: Modelling the Roman Economy.” (with Tom Brughmans)
  • ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: Fifty-First International Conference The Decapolis: History & Archaeology 2022, Oxford, UK, “Rural Fortifications and Settlement Patterns in the Southern Golan: A Geospatial Approach to Reconstruct Territory of Antiochia-Hippos.”
  • Počítačová podpora v archeologii 2020, Czech Republic, “The Territory (chora) of Hippos: Its Settlement Dynamics and Development as Seen through Spatial Analytical Methods.” (with M. Eisenberg)
  • 45th Archaeological Congress of Israel, Haifa, Israel, April 2019. “The Regional Fortifications and Administration Systems in the southern Golan Heights during the Hellenistic and the Roman Periods.” (with M. Eisenberg and M. Osband)
  • Society of Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology (SNELA) International Symposium, Istanbul Turkey, March 2019. “Ancient Roads in the Southern Golan Heights: Recent surveys and landscape approach”
  • 24. International Limes Congress, Serbia, September 2018. “How to date and trace the Roman roads? Case study from the territorium of Antiochia Hippos” (poster)
  • 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, Tübingen, Germany, 2018. “Evaluating QField as a Mobile GIS Solution for Archaeological Survey”
  • ASOR Annual Meeting 2017, Boston, USA. “Regional Defenses in the Region of Hippos: A Spatial Analysis Approach“
  • Počítačová podpora v archeologii 2017. Písek, Czech Republic. “Testing QField program for archaeological survey.“
  • Landscape Archaeology Today 2017, Jerusalem, Israel. “Roman Road System in the Golan: Highways, Paths and Tracks in Quotidian Life“
  • International Conference for the Study of Poliorcetics 2017, Haifa, Israel. “Regional Fortifications in the Chora of Hippos-Sussita in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods“
  • Imperialism and Identities at the Edges of Roman World 3, 2016, Petnica, Serbia. “The Landscape of Dominance: Two Case Studies from Provincia Judaea“
  • XXIII. International Limes Congress 2015, Ingolstadt, Germany. “Early Roman Fortifications in northern Negev – Spatial Analysis”
  • PeCla 2014 (Perspectives of Classical Archaeology), Prague, CZ. ”Spatial Analysis of Early Roman Fortifications in Northern Negev using GIS“
  • Orientalia Antiqua Nova 2014, Pilsen, CZ. ”Římská pietas u Héróda Velikého“ (Roman pietas of Herod the Great)

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