Cultural transformation in South and West Bohemia during the Bronze Age

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cultural transformation in South and West Bohemia during the Bronze Age

Original language description

South and West Bohemia are the regions with a specific position in prehistoric times, given by their geographical location between the Danube regions in the south and central Bohemia in the north. The material culture and character of settlement in both these regions changed according to the nature and intensity of external influences from both directions, which is clearly evident in the Bronze Age. How are these cultural influences reflected in the archaeological record? How did the system of the cultural transmission and social organisation work and how it changed? Are we able to see cultural changes in the typology and also in the technological properties of the preserved artefacts? In our presentation, we focus on selected artefacts from the periods of cultural transformations, specifically on different types of copper ingots from the transition of the Early and Middle Bronze Age, when the Early Bronze cultural groups gradually transformed into Tumuli cultures, or on casting cakes and ceramic vessels decorated with incised carving from the end of the Middle and beginning of the Late Bronze Age, when the Tumuli cultures changed to Urnfields. The orientation of both Czech regions towards the Danube area continues throughout the Late Bronze Age, but at the beginning of the Final Bronze Age there is a change: while Western Bohemia remains culturally strongly linked to today's South German area, the inhabitants of South Bohemia bring their material culture closer to the Central Bohemian Štítary culture. However, some manifestations in the material record continue to be preserved, such as specific trench-like features, which are known from flat settlements only in southern Germany, western and southern Bohemia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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

2025

Confidentiality

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