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The animal burials have been discovered in a great quantities throughout the Early Bronze Age over a wide East-Central European area. This phenomenon is a continuation of the Neolithic Age tradition. Animal burials are divided into several different types, however we can distinguish two general forms: individual animal burials and connected with human graves. After consideration of the types of the graves, additional grave goods, orientation of the dead animals, species, number, age and sex of the individuals, and comparison the foregoing data with the consumption habits, Author is convinced of an offering character of this kind of ritual practices.
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Two pits with artificially deformed and burnt parts of weapons, equipment, belts, metal vessels and other objects were found illegally on the Rudná hill near Streženice in northwestern Slovakia. Additional research confirmed the finding situation, and a third grouping of objects was found. According to the analysis, the find belongs to the interface of the older and younger Roman period and represents the remains of ritual practices related to local warfare. The article mentions other similar deposits from the same period, found in the area of the Púchov culture (Blatnica) as well as in the Central Danube region, Moravia and Bohemia. These also include solitary finds of horse harnesses deposited in special places in the landscape.
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