Prehistoric and Early Medieval hillforts in Bohemia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prehistoric and Early Medieval hillforts in Bohemia

Original language description

The Bohemian basin (52,778 km²) is separated from other parts of Europe by high mountains. Therefore this area is a very good start for cross-cultural hillfort research. Within the project ‘Celtic oppida among other hillforts – an intercultural comparison’ the location of 450 Bohemian hillforts from Eneolithic up to Early Medieval times (4300 BC – AD 1150) is registered in a Geographic Information System (GIS), together with relevant information about each hillfort like name, position, area, archaeological research, dating on several levels, frequency of occupation in various periods, and position within the general framework of soil types, precipitation, temperature and climatic zones, etc. All these results are published in an ‘Atlas of Prehistoric and Early Medieval Hillforts in Bohemia’. We have to deal with the fact that it is not possible to define reliable occupation times for every hillfort without further research and that it is uncertain how many of them have vanished through the times, mainly in regions with intensive landuse. Nevertheless diverse distribution patterns of Bohemian hillforts could be visualised in a GIS together with different topographic and thematic maps. They show remarkable similarities or differences during the various periods, which emphasises the potential for further analysis. Sometimes the amount of hillforts decreases remarkably and afterwards the intensity of hillforts raises significantly. Within a period of 5,400 years there are 1,600 years with no registered hillforts: in the Late Eneolithic (2800–2200 BC) as well as the Middle La Tène period (400–150 BC), and from the Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Early Medieval Age (50 BC – AD 700). It is remarkable that similar distribution patterns can be observed for Late Hallstatt and Early Medieval times 1,500 years later. We can probably assume that – if form follows function – the infrastuctural use of hillfort sites was very similar or even the same in Late Hallstatt and Early Medieval times.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-20106S" target="_blank" >GA17-20106S: Celtic oppida among other hill-forts - an intercultural comparison</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Fortifications in their natural and cultural landscape: from organising space to the creation of power

ISBN

978-3-7749-4374-2

ISSN

2364-4680

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Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

83-100

Publisher name

Habelt-Verlag

Place of publication

Bonn

Event location

Schleswig

Event date

Mar 5, 2020

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

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