The paper presents new knowledge on dating of the beginnings of the Prague-type pottery culture on the territory of Southern Moravia. It is a result of the analysis of inhumation grave No. 114 from Přítluky, and radiocarbon dates obtained from animal bones samples from House 953 at Pavlov-Horní pole. The rave showing spatial relation to a cremation burial ground with Prague-type pottery, and the find of a single-edged iron sax, entirely unique in our environment, indicate chronological and cultural relations to the Merovingian realm. Sax, in association with afire steel and a knife, represented the typical funerary equipment in graves of male warriors. Important "C dates obtained from House 953 at Pavlov-Horní pole helped to date the earliest phase of the Prague-type pottery culture to the turn of the 6th to 7th century., Dagmar Jelínková., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
At present, the catalogue of early mediaval bridges in the nort-western part of territory with Slavic settlement contains 81 localities: 47 in Germany and 34 in Poland. In some of them more than one bridge (2 to 3 structure) was documented, bringing the total number of bridges to 101. Construction dates, different prhases in the lives of the bridges and dates ranges for when they were reapired were obtained based on dendrochronology and spartial-chronological analysis. The present anaylsis deals with 48 bridges from 37 localities in north-west Slavic territory: 22 in Germany and 16 in Poland. In 16 cases more or less probable reconstructions have been made and four basic types of bridges ascertained., Gerard Wilke., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
This study is based on the author‘s paper entitled „Przemiany kulturowe na prełomie epok kamienia i brazu na Morawach i wokól Moraw w świetle przemysłów krzemieniarskich“ wirtten as part of a habilitation thesis completed at the Socio-Historical Faculty of the Rzeszów University. Polish and English versions of this paper are available on the Central Committee for Scientific Degrees and Titles (Warsaw, Poland) web page. Due to the wide scope of the issue, this work includes only a review of lithic industries from Young Eneolithic (Jevišovice, Bošáca and Globular Amphora cultures) until the end of the Early Bronze Age (the Věteřov group) on the territories of Moravia and Czech Silesia. Comprehensive analyses of typology, technology and changes in raw material preferences have revealed specific evolutionary patterns. Cultural transformations towards the end of the Stone Age resulted in the formation of the Bronze Age in eastern Central Europe. The research indicates that Moravia played an important role in these transformations, significantly influencing the adjacent regions (Lower Austria, Bohemia, Silesia and southwest Slovakia)., Lubomír Šebela., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Analyses of lithic materials of the Jevišovice culture from five sites of major importance (Brno-Malomˇeˇrice, Brno- Starý Lískovec, Grešlové Mýto, Jevišovice–Starý Zámek, and Vysočany) indicate that – in general terms – they are more similar to Early Aeneolithic assemblages than to the so-called terminal assemblages. This conclusion is based on the presence of regular pre-shaped cores for blades, series of regular blade blanks, and "classic" blade tools, including endscrapers, burins, and truncated blades. However, certain "terminal" elements (frequent utilization of local rocks, high proportion of functional tools, common denticulated retouch) are also evident., Jerzy Kopacz, Lubomír Šebela., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
This paper presents a defi nition of Mikuszowice chert. Fourteen types of Mikuszowice chert have been identifi ed. These results are useful for identifying fl int artifacts in the Outer Carpathians. Mikuszowice chert artifacts have been identifi ed in inventories dated to different time periods from the Upper Paleolithic to Early/Older Bronze Age. At present, 39 sites with Mikuszowice chert are known. The most important of these sites is a complex of 8 sites in Jaworze. The chert artifacts occur within 100 km of their source. The chert was collected during surface surveys or in primary and secondary deposits., Eugeniusz Foltyn, Leonard Jochemczyk., and Obsahuje pouzitou literaturu
The subject of this analysis is Bridge No. 1 in Mikulčice, which was discovered during a large-scale archaeological excavation of a former riverbed between the years 1966 and 1968 and revisited in 2012. Although it is the best preserved bridge in Mikulčice, reconstucting it faces a number of limitations. The aim of this article is to define in more detail such limitations as well as possibilities, drawing on previous attempt to reconstuct this bidge. During the processing of the find situation of Bridge No. 1 foru "key questions" regarding reconstruction have been formulated. Our resulting statement says that in the fiven circumstances we cannot exclude the existence of a number of substantial reconstructions of the bridge, or rather the existence of more bridges constucted over time in the same place. Because only the load-bearing parts of the bridge´s construction have been preserved, we know almost nothing about the part above water level. Here we can be inspored especially by mediaeval and modern era bridges in period representations or by bridges of similar constuction that are still standing. There remains the general quetion of the origin of the bridge´s consturction, which has analogies in a nuber of La téne and Roman localities in Western Europe. A possible explanation is that the Classical tradition of engineering may have been mediated by the provinces in the Danube region., Lumír Poláček, Gerard Wilke., and Obsahuje seznam literatury