0463245 - ARÚ 2017 LT eng A - Abstrakt
Jiráň, Luboš - Šumberová, Radka
Places of deposition of metalwork assemblages in West Bohemia.
22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA, 31st August - 4th September 2016 Vilnius. Abstracts. Klaipėda: Saulius Jokuzys Publishing-Printing House, 2016. s. 46. ISBN N.
[Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists /22./. 31.08.2016-04.09.2016, Vilnius]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985912
Klíčová slova: Bronze Age * hoards * landscape
Kód oboru RIV: AC - Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie
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One way to answer questions concerning the selective deposition of metalwork in the Bronze Age is the detailed analysis of the place where metalwork assemblages were deposited. A territorially and chronologically defined sample of such assemblages - hoards - was deliberately selected. We assume that if hoards had differing functions in different periods and/or territories in the past, the data obtained through a single analysis of a de facto heterogeneous set of objects would affect the quality of the final interpretation. Our chosen method, the targeted analysis of a closely-defined set of objects, helps eliminate this risk, and allows the subsequent testing of the newly-obtained data on an ever wider set of objects that seem to show identical features, but have different territorial or chronological ambits. We therefore focused on 31 Urnfield Period hoards recorded to date in the West Bohemia region. For our questions, it is important that it was possible to determine precisely the original location for 27 of the hoards. The field survey focused mainly on evaluating the subjective reception of the given space in order to assess potential links of the hoards to significant natural features. This analysis found a surprisingly narrow group of natural features that could have influenced the choice of a location suitable for hoarding; namely rocks or distinctly rocky terrain, dominant hills in the landscape, watercourses and ravines. The connection of West Bohemian bronze hoards to such features indicates their sacral function, likely as votive offerings.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0262482