The Early Medieval Site of Roztoky: A Puzzle in the Vltava Valley

0550946 - ARÚ 2022 RIV eng A - Abstract
Kuna, Martin
The Early Medieval Site of Roztoky: A Puzzle in the Vltava Valley.
[Österreichische Gesellschaft für Mittelalterarchäologie. Tagung 2021 - Zwischen Spätantike und Jahrtausendwende - Eine Zeit der Neuorientierung und Neukonstituierung - Das archäologische Bild aufgrund von Siedlungen. Online, 17.03.2021]
Method of presentation: Zvaná přednáška
Event organizer: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Mittelalterarchäologie
URL events: https://www.univie.ac.at/oegm/veranstaltungen/tagungen/tagung-2021.html 
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018134
Keywords : Early Middle Ages * Prague-Korchak culture * settlement agglomeration * pit house
OECD category: Archaeology

The early medieval settlement in Roztoky represents an exceptional case among the sites of the Prague-type culture (PTC). It does not differ, however, from other sites of the same age in Czechia and Central Europe in the character of the finds, but rather in their extraordinary number, mainly consisting of hundreds of typical PTC sunken houses. The settlement was first discovered by rescue excavation in 1980–3 and subsequently investigated by further fieldworks up to 2010. So far, the processing of the finds has led to the publication of extensive reference sets of artefacts and ecofacts, but a clear answer to the question of what caused such a large concentration of population in the given place is still being sought.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0326375