Human activity in the upper regions of the Šumava mountains during prehistory as reflected in archaeological and proxy data. Multidisciplinary research of the La Tène archaeological site in the Sklářské valley

0532472 - ARÚ 2021 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Dreslerová, Dagmar - Kozáková, Radka - Metlička, M. - Brychová, V. - Bobek, Přemysl - Čišecký, Čeněk - Pokorná, Adéla - Michálek, J. - Strouhalová, Barbora
Human activity in the upper regions of the Šumava mountains during prehistory as reflected in archaeological and proxy data. Multidisciplinary research of the La Tène archaeological site in the Sklářské valley.
Fines Transire. Vol. 28. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 2019 - (Chvojka, O.; Chytráček, M.; Gruber, H.; Husty, L.; Michálek, J.; Sandner, R.; Schmotz, K.; Traxler, S.), s. 187-199. Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern/West- und Südböhmen/Oberösterreich, 28. ISBN 978-3-89646-223-7. ISSN 1868-2308.
[Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern/West- und Südböhmen/Oberösterreich /28./. Niederalteich (DE), 13.06.2018-16.06.2018]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-17909S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912 ; RVO:67985939
Keywords : Šumava * Late Iron Age * secluded place
OECD category: Archaeology; Plant sciences, botany (BU-J)

The article presents the preliminary results of the ongoing interdisciplinary project “Hidden human prehistoric activity in the mountains” (GAČR 17-17909S). Its goals are to clarify the nature of human activity and estimate its potential effects on vegetation development in the Šumava Mts. and its foothills from the beginning of the Holocene to the modern period. A special concern is devoted to the research of the highest altitude (802 m a.s.l.) site from the La Tène period in the Czech Republic located in the Sklarske valley. It is situated next to a distinctive river meander and its tributary. It seems that settlement and/or activity took place at a limited site only some 20 x 20 m between 300 and 50 years before Christ (BC). Joined research of archaeology, palynology, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, macro-remain analysis, anthracology, soil and phosphate analyses, radiocarbon dating and the analyses of organic residues from pottery fragments revealed an unusual secluded character of the place which could have served as, for example, a hermitage or a guardhouse.
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