New Neolithic rondels in Bohemia

0389131 - ARÚ 2013 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Řídký, Jaroslav - Daněček, D. - Sedláček, Z. - Smejtek, L. - Kostka, M. - Křivánek, Roman
New Neolithic rondels in Bohemia.
Neolithische Kreisgrabenanlagen in Europa. Halle (Saale): Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2012 - (Bertemes, F.; Meller, H.), s. 223-238. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, 8. ISBN 978-3-939414-33-9.
[Neolithische Kreisgrabenanlagen in Europa. Goseck (DE), 07.05.2004-09.05.2004]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z8002910
Keywords : enclosures * Stroked Pottery Culture * Moravian Painted Pottery * distribution
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

Rescue excavations in the Czech Republic carried out in the last few decades, together with aerial-prospection and geophysical-surveys, have lead to many new discoveries of different site types from a variety of periods. In 2004, when this article was written, 24 rondels were known from 22 different sites in Bohemia and Moravia. Bohemian and Moravian rondels can be distinguished from each other not only by virtue of culture: Stroked Pottery Culture in Bohemia and Moravian Painted Pottery in Moravia, but also differences in their construction that can be observed if one compares such basic parameters as their maximum diameter, the number of ditches and the form of the entrances. The maximum diameter and the entrance form constitute the most significant factor of differentiation between the two groups. Nevertheless, despite such differences reciprocal contact is evident by the contemporary similarities in the pottery traditions in both regions. Future analyses of the new discoveries mentioned in this article will clearly have an impact on our conceptions about the relative chronologies, as well as settlement patterns and systems in Neolithic Bohemia. The aim of this paper is to focus on and expose a larger audience to newly discovered and as yet unpublished rondel sites.
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