Archaeological excavation of a Mesolithic settlement Mestec/Ostrov in Eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081758%3A_____%2F23%3A00576771" target="_blank" >RIV/68081758:_____/23:00576771 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130578

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2384" target="_blank" >http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2384</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26720/anthro.anthro.23.02.14.1" target="_blank" >10.26720/anthro.anthro.23.02.14.1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Archaeological excavation of a Mesolithic settlement Mestec/Ostrov in Eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In 2018 a forager camp site located on the boundary of cadastral territories of Městec and Ostrov in eastern Bohemia was excavated by archaeologists under the auspices of a rescue excavation. The site was situated on an indistinct hillock above the Loučná River in a field called ‘U Stříbrníku’, near Uhersko railway station. During the rescue excavation, a collection of 4982 lithic artefacts was obtained. Another 142 artefacts were collected during surface surveys at the site. Artefacts were excavated mainly from the plough horizon (top soil), where they were redeposited after having been disturbed by ploughing. Despite the disturbed context, it was possible to document an in-situ feature – a lower part of a sunken pit with a diameter of approximately 40 cm, where pine wood charcoal pieces were collected for radiocarbon dating analysis. Absolute dating results obtained from four radiocarbon dates provide an age estimate of 9200 cal BC, which dates this feature to the Preboreal period at very beginning of the Holocene epoch, when the climate was changing due to a rapid rise of average temperatures. Characteristics of the lithic collection correspond with this dating result. Some attributes are typical for the Late Palaeolithic (tanged tool), however, the collection is essentially Mesolithic. This is indicated by the presence of geometric microliths (triangles) and small-sized, highly exhausted cores. Although we are aware that the strategic position of this site makes it likely that it was settled also at other times, we suggest that the excavated artefacts date mainly to the first half of the Mesolithic period.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Archaeological excavation of a Mesolithic settlement Mestec/Ostrov in Eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Popis výsledku anglicky

In 2018 a forager camp site located on the boundary of cadastral territories of Městec and Ostrov in eastern Bohemia was excavated by archaeologists under the auspices of a rescue excavation. The site was situated on an indistinct hillock above the Loučná River in a field called ‘U Stříbrníku’, near Uhersko railway station. During the rescue excavation, a collection of 4982 lithic artefacts was obtained. Another 142 artefacts were collected during surface surveys at the site. Artefacts were excavated mainly from the plough horizon (top soil), where they were redeposited after having been disturbed by ploughing. Despite the disturbed context, it was possible to document an in-situ feature – a lower part of a sunken pit with a diameter of approximately 40 cm, where pine wood charcoal pieces were collected for radiocarbon dating analysis. Absolute dating results obtained from four radiocarbon dates provide an age estimate of 9200 cal BC, which dates this feature to the Preboreal period at very beginning of the Holocene epoch, when the climate was changing due to a rapid rise of average temperatures. Characteristics of the lithic collection correspond with this dating result. Some attributes are typical for the Late Palaeolithic (tanged tool), however, the collection is essentially Mesolithic. This is indicated by the presence of geometric microliths (triangles) and small-sized, highly exhausted cores. Although we are aware that the strategic position of this site makes it likely that it was settled also at other times, we suggest that the excavated artefacts date mainly to the first half of the Mesolithic period.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Anthropologie

ISSN

0323-1119

e-ISSN

2570-9127

Svazek periodika

61

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

40

Strana od-do

69-108

Kód UT WoS článku

001060257500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85178419326