VÝVOJ OSÍDLENIA NA STREDNOM POHRONÍ OD DOBY LATÉNSKEJ DO VČASNÉHO STREDOVEKU

• Authors: Ján Beljak , Kristína Kučeráková

Title variants

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Development of settlement in the middle Hron River Basin from La Tene Period to early middle Ages

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study focused on the settlement of the middle Hron River Basin deals with the archaeological finds from the La Tene Period up to the early middle Ages. Already, this area was closely related to significant trade routes in the early historical periods, and moreover, it provided sources of raw material. While so far the pre-Púchov horizon has not been clearly confirmed in the valleys and basins, bearers of the Púchov Culture made use not only of the more difficult to access hill-top sites, but settled along the banks of the brooks in the Pliešovská, Zvolenská and Žiarska basins. The Púchov Culture settlements founded in La Tene Period on river terraces were being continually settled also in the early Roman Period. However, many hill-top sites, especially the ones settled already in the middle La Tene Period, were not already used by the Cotini in the early Roman Period. With the arrival of the Germanic peoples (the Quadi) in the last decades of the 2nd cent. AD the places of residence, compared to the early Roman Period and, partially, the La Tene Period as well, do not undergo a significant change. In the later Roman Period the Púchov Culture´s hill-top sites are not settled by the Quadi. In the late Roman Period the Quadi settle in unfavourable zones as well, and they also expand to hill-top sites on the tops of hills and to caves situated in the difficult to access terrains. There was a gradual continuation of the settlement into several locations on river terraces in this period. The situation changes during the Migration Period (stages D2 – D3). There are almost no relevant documents from this time regarding the settlement in lowland sites. The first Slavonic settlements come from the turn of the 6th and 7th cent. Unlike the Celts and Germanic peoples, the Slavs did not occupy elevated places in mountainous regions in the first settlement wave. As early as in the 8th century several Slavonic settlements were situated above river terraces, and in the 9th century their number even increased.

Keywords

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HRON RIVER; BASIN; LA TENE PERIOD; ROMAN PERIOD; MIDDLE AGES; SETTLEMENT; QUADI; CELTS

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Študijné zvesti
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 57
• Pages: 7 - 56

Contributors

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Ján Beljak

• Archeologický ústav SAV, Výskumné pracovisko vo Zvolene, Štúrova 2,  960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic

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Kristína Kučeráková