An underwater metal hoard of the Urnfield Period from Prosiměřice in Znojmo District: On the issue of the relationships between hoards, settlements and waters

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461373%3A22310%2F24%3A43931362" target="_blank" >RIV/60461373:22310/24:43931362 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/research/publishing-and-editorial-activities-of-the-faculty/overview-of-publishing-and-scientific-activities/2465660" target="_blank" >https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/research/publishing-and-editorial-activities-of-the-faculty/overview-of-publishing-and-scientific-activities/2465660</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.47382/pv0652-02" target="_blank" >10.47382/pv0652-02</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An underwater metal hoard of the Urnfield Period from Prosiměřice in Znojmo District: On the issue of the relationships between hoards, settlements and waters

Original language description

The Prosiměřice 2 metal hoard was discovered during archaeological rescue excavation in 2021 on the northern edge of the cadastre, where it was located in the floodplain of the River Jevišovka below the groundwater level. In addition to nine ingots and a broken-off sprue, the hoard contains two socketed axes, which date the find to the later stage of the Middle Danube Urnfield Culture. All the artefacts of the hoard were subjected to material composition analysis, which proved both relatively pure and variously impure copper (most ingots) as well as tin bronze (axes, ingot, sprue). According to X-ray computed tomography and use-wear analysis, the axes are imperfect, though functional, casts. The Prosiměřice 2 hoard therefore contains artefacts from various stages of the metallurgical production chain, just like the previously discovered Prosiměřice 1 hoard. Both hoards are part of a contemporary open settlement area and their contents could thus indicate local metallurgical activity. Other metal hoards in settlement areas also indicate a potential correlation between their contents and metallurgical production in open settlements. The location of both hoards from Prosiměřice in a floodplain wetland or even underwater points to their irreversible deposition and, like most other multi-piece hoards in a water environment, we associate them with communal socio-cultic rituals. Copyright © 2024 Czech Acad Sci, Inst Archaeology Brno, and the authors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20501 - Materials engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Prehled Vyzkumu

ISSN

1211-7250

e-ISSN

2571-0605

Volume of the periodical

65

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

9-31

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85215424883