Traceological Research on Early Medieval Clothing Components

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Traceological Research on Early Medieval Clothing Components

Original language description

Metal jewellery and clothing components are essential archaeological material for the study of supra-regional elite contacts and testify to the socio-economic structures of early medieval Europe. In addition to traditional archaeological typological methods, the analysis of materials and production techniques has become standard. On the other hand, the detection of traces of wear is a research method that is not yet widespread. We have attempted to integrate this research method using a specific type of artefacts - spherical hollow buttons (in archaeological terminology called gombiks), which were widely used in Central Europe in the 9th century. These artefacts, made of silver, gold or gilded copper alloys, are an example of a broad cultural symbiosis. The morphology of the spherical hollow buttons refers to the buttons of Asian caftans and Byzantine pendants (pendilia). At the same time, the spherical hollow buttons adopt the chased ornamentation known from silk or the stone elements of Mediterranean church architecture. Due to the lack of written sources, iconography or textile finds, this siteand time-specific type of artefact remains unknown in many respects. For example, we lack the elementary fact of the original function of spherical hollow buttons in the past living culture and the related formation of the origin of this elite symbol in the Central European milieu (in the Principality of Great Moravia). One of the possibilities for further research is the analysis of wear traces and the combination of this knowledge with other proven methods of elemental composition (using the SEM/EDS method) and production technology research. Methodologically, the presented research is based on the combination of the analysis of traces on original artefacts with the analysis of wear caused by experimental use of newly produced replicas.

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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

2024

Confidentiality

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