Food offerings, flowers, a bronze bucket and a waggon : a multidisciplinary approach regarding the Hallstatt princely grave from Prague-Letany, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00113751" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00113751 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-017-0538-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-017-0538-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0538-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-017-0538-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food offerings, flowers, a bronze bucket and a waggon : a multidisciplinary approach regarding the Hallstatt princely grave from Prague-Letany, Czech Republic

Original language description

Two princely graves (numbers 6 and 14) of the Bylany culture from the Hallstatt period were excavated at Prague-Letany in December 2014. The paper summarises the results of the scientific analysis of grave number 6. The grave inventory contained a four-wheeled waggon, 21 ceramic vessels of variable size and type, one bronze bucket, one iron sword, two iron spits and a variety of animal bones. Dark paint on the outer surface of the bronze bucket was examined using infrared spectroscopy and revealed the presence of beeswax and charcoal. This is unusual as the paint or coatings found on archaeological vessels from numerous periods are generally based on natural resins. Pollen analysis of the organic matter found in the bottom of the bronze bucket showed that it had originally belonged to flowers, probably in the form of a floral tribute. Osteological analysis of the offered parts of one adult sheep, one adult pig and one calf skeleton revealed the specific selection from fleshy parts of the animal bodies. There were no clear signs of roasting on the animal bones. Analysis of the waggon showed that Fagus wood was used for construction of the felloes, Abies/Picea wood for the axle and Ulmus, Acer and Quercus for other parts, suggesting that Modern Age technologies were already in use during the Hallstatt period.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

ISSN

1866-9557

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

209-221

UT code for WoS article

000454629900011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85041595867