MELČICE-LIESKOVÉ I – IV. ZHROMAŽDIŠTIA BRONZOVÝCH PREDMETOV Z BIELYCH KARPÁT

• Authors: Ondrkál Filip

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Melčice-Lieskové I – IV. Assemblages of bronze objects from White Carpathians

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Western part of the Carpathian Mountains is characterized by a high level of metalworking during the Late Bronze Age (app. 1325 – 1050 BC), with characteristic shapes and decorations, and some exceptional finds of bronzes. Readings of data on mass metal deposition by the Nordic and Anglo-Saxon models of conceptual thought usually associate the selective deposition of Bronze Age metals with regular votive offerings by the population. However, if votive deposition were a common practice in the Urnfield culture, one would expect such hoards to be distributed chronologically more evenly and on a wider geographical scale. The Melčice-Lieskové I (BD/HA1; app. 1225 – 1175 BC) and Melčice-Lieskové II – IV (HB1a; app. 1075 – 1025 BC) hoards – using an extensive typological protocol and a rationalized documentary base – testify to wave, episodic and the regional nature of hoards in the central area of the White Carpathians as a reaction to specific social and political events, such as military operations or other conflicts. Hoards even contain items inherited for generations, with morphological features based on different technological-typological principles. Not only did they reflect the brutal struggles of the time, but they also witnessed the politics, economy, and culture of the Lusatian and Middle Danubian Urnfields, connecting the specifics of historical cases to broader social mechanisms previously recorded in global episodes of change and innovation across time and space.

Keywords

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WESTERN SLOVAKIA; WHITE CARPATHIANS; LATE BRONZE AGE; URNFIELD CULTURE; HOARDS; METALLURGY

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 287 – 314

Contributors

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Ondrkál Filip

• Ústav pro archeologii FF UK, Celetná 20, 116 36 Praha 1, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-9699

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2023.71.10