Metal artefacts as a key to the landscape and society of pre-state Bohemia

0566144 - ARÚ 2023 RIV HR eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Hasil, Jan - Profantová, Naďa - Levá, Kateřina
Metal artefacts as a key to the landscape and society of pre-state Bohemia.
Avari i Slaveni. Dvije strane pojasnog jezičca - Avari na sjeveru i jugu kaganata = Avars and Slavs. Two sides of a belt strap end - Avars on the north and the south of the Khaganate. Zagreb: Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu, 2022 - (Rapan Papeša, A.; Dugonjić, A.), s. 210-223. Collectanea archaeologica Musei archaeologici Zagrabiensis, 5. ISBN 978-953-8143-58-8.
[Avari i Slaveni. Dvije strane pojasnog jezičca - Avari na sjeveru i jugu kaganata. Vinkovci (HR), 06.02.2020-08.02.2020]
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Keywords : Bohemia * Early Middle Ages * settlement structure * social structure * early mediaeval landscape * Carolingian imports * Avar cast fittings
OECD category: Archaeology

This paper represents the first attempt in Czech archaeology of the Early Middle Ages to comprehensively explicate this new source category that is composed of metal finds with a high potential for interpretation. As a method of explanation, we did not use the usually chosen cultural-historical framework based on the historical narrative, but rather the question of the relationship between the newly defined source category of significant metal artefacts and the conventional archaeological source base. The regions from which the research data are currently accessible and to a partial extent analyzed (the region of Český Brod and Kolín in the eastern part of central Bohemia, the area around the lower course of the Berounka River) offer us through the lens of the metal artefacts from the 7th to the turn of the 8th/9th century a significantly different view of the settlement structure of early medieval Bohemia. This study contains trans-regionally interconnected production and distribution centres, possible residences or posts of high ranked groups, whereas finds from the peripheries show the important communication routes and broaden the available finds of Czech archaeology with fully new categories of finds.
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