Early Eneolithic settlement on the bed of the Plumlov Reservoir. In 2011, archaeological research was carried out on prehistoric habitation, which came to light during the removal of sediments from the fl oor of the Plumlov Reservoir. The relics of prehistoric habitation were found on former right bank of the river Hloučela, bordered from the south by the Myslejovice Ridge which is part of the Drahany Upland. The geomorphology of the landscape in this area reminds of a natural amphitheatre, whose mouth was occupied in prehistoric times. The research conducted has proved Neolithic, Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age habitation. This paper pays attention in particular to Early Eneolithic habitation, namely to late Lengyel and Epi-Lengyel relics. From the point of view of relative chronology, the Early Eneolithic habitation falls within a time span delimited by the II phase of Moravian Painted Ware Culture on the one side and the latest phase of the Jordanów culture on the other side. It is one of the few examples of continuous human habitation during the entire Early Eneolithic period., Miroslav Šmíd., and Obsahuje seznam literatury.
The use of metal detecting devices by the general public and the resultant plundering of archaeological sites is still one of the most painful issues in Czech archaeology. No simple or satisfactory solutions have been found. The aim of this paper is to objectively summarise the last 25 years of unrestricted use of metal detectors in the Czech Republic and its impact on the archaeological component of cultural heritage and on archaeology itself. The paper presents a quantitative model of metal detecting activities sourced from the available data. The results are employed to illustrate the effect of metal detecting activities on archaeological knowledge and to outline some related theoretical and methodological questions., Aleš Navrátil., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The article deals with the design and construction of a hypothetical gate tower, which was built in the frame of the Archaeological open air museum at Liptovská Mara, Slovakia. It describes two different approaches towards its mock-up construction, which were realized before and now and with gained experience – from two different points of views: scientific (technology) and operational. Construction of the gate resulted from a co-operation among the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science (AÚ SAV), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU BA), Institute of Architectural Heritage Conservation of the Slovak republic (PÚ SR) and the Museum of Liptov in a frame of the project “Ochrana a záchrana historických pamiatok na Slovensku ako integrálna súˇcast’ európskeho kultúrneho dediˇcstva (koncepcia a realizácia)” / “Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Slovakia as an Integral Part of European Cultural Heritage (Concept and Realising)”., Oto Makýš., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
This investigation closely examines the so-called animal burials from the Late Neolithic period. The Kujawy site (central Poland), occupied by the globular Amphora culture people, is used here as an example. The information we have on the animal burials from this site suggests important differences from other known animal burial sites. One example is the tendency to place animals in pits within the settlement. In this way, the dead (probably killed) and intentionally buried animals became part of the space used by living people. Another important observation concerns preferences in selecting animals for use in different spheres of human activity including ritual., Marzena Szmyt., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
In 2008 the Institute of Archeological Heritage Presevation in Brno in collaboration with MZM Brno confiued field surveys using metal detectors at selected La Tene localities in Moravia. The surveys targetted settlements attached to the power centre of the La Tene Age in the village of Němčice (Prostějov region) and in the Boskovice depression. Collections were aslo obtained over two surwey periods from Roman sites in the village of Rakvice in south MOravia and in the village of Dolní Němčí-Vlčnov in south -east Moravia. Apart from the artifact and the information they yielded, the survey also revaeled more general knowledge about the sites, which unambiguously shows the necessity of carrying out metal detector prospecting by archaeological instituions. The finds have considerably enriched our knowledge of the Middle Bronze Age period (exemplified by a needle with an eyelet of a Lower Silesian origin) and of the Roman period (exemplifield by a brooch of Aucissa type, a brooch with cut out bow, brooches A 129 and bronze moulds for the production of the Early Roman bridles of the Vimose type., Miloš Čižmář .. .[et al.]., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
During 2009, ÚAPP Brno in conjunction with MZM Brno continued surveys using metal detectors at selected Moravian La Tène sites. The field survey has focused particularly on investigations of the settlement hinterland from the La Tène period in Nˇemˇcice near Prostˇejov and the surrounding settlements, sites in the Boskovice Furrow and the Staré Hradisko Celtic oppidum. Artifact assemblages were also recovered from two surveys of several sites in southern Moravia. Apart from the individual finds and the information they yielded, the surveys also provided more general information. These results reaffirm the view that it is necessary for archaeological institutions to conduct such metal detector surveys. The new finds have clearly added to our knowledge, particularly with regards to the La Tène culture, with the finding of a palmette-shaped belt-clasp from Drnholec, mask handle base from Polkovice, "Dreiblattknopf" from Hevlín and two brooch fragments of a so far unknown type from Staré Hradisko, and unusually for the early Slavonic period north of the Danube, a rare Byzantine belt-clasp fragment (from Bedihošt’). Another artifact which further attests to the importance of metal detector surveys is a Late Roman brooch of the Hrušica type found at Dyjákovice, the first such find in the Czech Republic., Miloš Čižmář ... [et al.]., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
During 2010, ÚAPP Brno in conjunction with MZM Brno, continued surveys using metal detectors at selected Moravian La Tène sites. The field survey has focused particularly on investigation of the settlement hinterland of the oppidum Staré Hradisko and the power centre from the La Tène period at Nˇemˇcice na Hané, on the area of Nˇemˇcice settlement and in the smaller degree also on sites in the Boskovice Furrow. Collections of finds were also obtained over two survey periods from several sites in south Moravia. Apart from the artifacts and the information about these sites they yielded, the survey also revealed more general knowledge, which reaffirm the necessity of carrying out metal detector prospecting by archaeological institutions. The new finds have clearly added to our knowledge, particularly with regards to the La Tène period, with the finding of a plastic head from Nˇemˇcice, and for the Roman Age with the finding of a provincial anchor-shaped brooch from Kuˇrim, the present time rare in Moravia. The finds from two sites are important for understanding of communication between Moravia and Bohemia along the Svitava River., Miloš Čizmář, Jana Čižmářová, Martin Kejzlar., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Radiocarbon dates and pottery typology from the hilltop settlement of Hlinsko are discussed with respect to the chronology of the Boleráz Group in Moravia. Additionally the results are compared to new Dates from Jevisovice and Brno-Líšeň as well as to the total corpus of Radiocarbon dates connected to Boleraz-fi nds in other regions. The Moravian dates show that the Boleráz Pottery in that region is not used until after 3520 BC, whereas there are older dates in Lower Austria and Hungary, starting about 3650 BC. The end of the Boleráz pottery style in Moravia is harder to detect. The 14C dates from Hlinsko, but also one additional date in Wojnowice in Upper Silesia point towards the presence of a “Post-Boléraz-Group, where Boleráz-, Funnel Beaker and some scant Classical Baden elements are mixed in a local pottery style, contemporary to the different Classical Baden Groups in neighbouring regions. Thus, in the western part of Moravia, the chronological sequence is Boleráz (3520–3350 BC), Post-Boleráz (3350–3100 BC), Jevisovice B (3100–2800 BC). Regarding the pottery typology and Radiocarbon Dating of Hlinsko, the pit inventories discussed do not display a Proto-Boleráz and a subsequent Boleráz Phase, as traditionally labelled, but rather a continuum showing a mixture of Funnel Beaker Pottery with Boleráz Elements to Funnel Beaker with Boleráz and scant Classical Baden infl uences (the latter equalling “Post-Boleráz”), clearly different from the typical Boleráz or Classical Baden Inventories known further south., Martin Furholt., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The paper deals with the topic of additional Germanic settlement activity on „Burgstall“ hill near Mušov-Pasohlávky in Moravia from the stratigraphical and chronological point of view. Germanic settlement features which have been discovered on this location, previously, at the time of Marcomannic wars, the key and most important military site north to the Carnuntum, have disturbed the preceding Roman structures and clearly date to a later period than the Roman army occupation. The impressive picture comes also from the adjacent location of Neurissen. It is not without significance that the chronologically conclusive items from these subsequent barbarian settlement contexts are clearly comparable with the archaeological record typical in general for the distinctive horizon of sunken floor huts and pits detected within Germanie built up areas in a number of places in different areas of Moravia and Slovakia. The dating of the horizon in question can be placed within the timespan from the late 2nd century AD since the mid of the next century and its end concures in the time with the turbulent period of increasing migration movements of barbarian populations beyond the Roman frontier and with the fall of Roman Raetian- Upper Germanic limes., Jaroslav Tejral., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The settlement region in the Opava River basin (Upper Silesia) belonged to the southern periphery of the Przeworsk culture. Settlement activity culminated here during the late and final phase of the Roman Period. Numerous settlements situated on terraces of the river Opava were characterised by local production of wheel-thrown pottery. Despite the somewhat problematic dating of these sites, at least some of them may have belonged to the final phase (C3/D). Besides the above-mentioned region, which was relatively well investigated by archaeologists, settlements of the Przeworsk culture have also penetrated to the less known region of Osoblaha and Vidnava, i.e. as far as to the foothills of the Jeseníky Mts. Two localities, which are supposed to be hilltop settlements dating probably from the end of the Roman Period to the beginning of the Migration Period, were discovered in this hilly landscape. In this context we neither can omit the finds of so-called equestrian nomadic and Hunnic character, which testify that the southern part of the territory of the Przeworsk culture has got under the influence of the Hunnic Empire., Zuzana Loskotová., and Obsahuje seznam literatury