Trade, use, offer. The hoard of Bánov – 'Skalky' (CZ)

0575844 - ARÚB 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Golec, M. - Bartík, Jaroslav - Golec Mírová, Zuzana - Kučera, L. - Chrástek, T. - Kapusta, J. - Šamajová, K.
Trade, use, offer. The hoard of Bánov – 'Skalky' (CZ).
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Roč. 50, August (2023), č. článku 104097. ISSN 2352-409X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000728
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Keywords : Hallstatt period * East Hallstatt culture * Czech Republic * hoard * women’s jewellery * amber road * elites * long-distance trade * deposition ceremony * chemical analysis * electron microscopy – energy dispersive spectrometry * infrared spectrometry * amber glass
OECD category: Archaeology; Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect) (UJF-V)
Impact factor: 1.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104097

The article introduces elite Hallstatt hoard from Bánov – 'Skalky', Uherské Hradiště District (CZ), dating to 575–550 BCE. Its 1.500–2.000 pieces of amber beads represent the largest individual prehistoric set of amber in the Czech Republic. In the 6th century BCE, the eastern part of what is now the Czech Republic (Moravia) was the primary transit region of the Baltic amber to the Mediterranean. Extensive barter trade took place along the route of the Amber Road. Included in the Bánov hoard were exclusive women’s jewellery items which were evidently exchanged for amber. It is a set of dragon fibulae from contemporary Slovenia. This article describes the circumstances of the discovery, offers a detailed catalogue of the findings, introduces a chronological-typological analysis of the inventory and proposes the origin of the artefacts. Furthermore, an overview of the deposition of hoards in Moravia and the methodology of studying the deposition is presented. A model of long-distance trade on the Amber Road and its chronological background are also outlined. The authors discuss the social structure, elites, long-distance trade on trade routes north of the East Hallstatt culture region, and the assumed ceremony surrounding the creation of hoards.
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