This article is a brief attempt to apply the modifi ed concept of ''Sovietization'' (including critical sketches of the background to this concept) to a particular complex of social sciences, i.e. the historical and archival sciences. In a short review of existing research into the history of individual disciplines, institutions and personalities after 1945, it raises the question of the usability of its results for the problem of Sovietization in the fi rst half of the 1950s. These include the question of the infl uence of Soviet patterns for the transformation of the network of scientifi c institutions and their personnel background.
As a result of the rescue excavation at 11 Vídeňská Street in 2021, we can specify the extension of a previously excavated area in the cadastral territory of Štýřice. A small collection of chipped stone industry and animal bones was unearthed. The form of these finds, their stratigraphic position, and a radiocarbon date retrieved from one of the animal bones enable us to connect this location with a previously excavated Epigravettian settlement, located just tens of metres to the west from the newly excavated site. The composition of the chipped stone industry (predominance of burins) together with the burin blows indicates the possibility of a short-term site for processing hunted fauna.