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Študijné zvesti
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2016
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issue 60
97 - 148
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Classical anthropological analysis of bone remains from part of the LaTène burial ground in Palárikovo, Dolné Križovany site. The Institue of Archaeology of SAS in Nitra carried out a rescue research on the site in 1970 – 1973. It was led by B. Benadík. From the total number of 95 uncovered burials, only seven contained cremated anthropological material. It is the most numerous and most complete collection of bone remains from the LaTène culture from Slovakia discovered so far. The anthropological analysis was applied to bone remains of 89 individuals. In men, medium skull construction prevailed as well as presence of forehead protuberances, reduced tuberculum marginale and tubera mentalia. Besides prevailing medium skulls, robust skulls of women occur. This tendency was more significant in creating a more robust relief of muscle insertions on skulls and in the tendency to ellipse shape and rounded iliums of foramen obturatum. The anthropological analysis is complemented with figures, tables and plates of measures and indices and basic statistical parameters. Male tendency to feminization was expressed in relatively short and subtle plates as well as in femur and tibia. Compared to men, women had rather wide faces and wide nasal foramen. The most probable conclusion from the detected differences in face proportions and in long bones of lower limbs is their different origin. Occurrence or frequency of anomalies and pathological changes in bones did not bring any new knowledge. Traces of cuts and fractures from perimortal period were recorded on bones of individuals from undisturbed burials. Values of primary analysis data in tables and figures are a precious source for further investigations.
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Remarkable disproportion of documented settlements and standard burial grounds on the whole territory of the Baden culture occurrence is typical for the culture bearers. The number of skeletons in conventional or unusual positions mostly with no charities at settlement pits found during large-scale excavations of Baden culture settlements, however, is increasing. Finding circumstances of graves at Komjatice, Nitra and Sládkovičovo unambiguously proved existence of more-less contemporary settlements in their vicinity, and so we can classify them to the category of burials in settlement pits. On the contrary, we can consider the find units from Hul, Kmeťovo, Marcelová or Bešeňová as isolated graves. They included a complete vessel working as a grave addition - charity. We assume the studied way of burying had been preferred much frequently by the Baden culture bearers than in other Aeneolithic populations. At the same time it can help us partially answering the reason of remarkable deficit of graves in comparison with settlement finds of the culture under study.
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The topic of this article is presentation of use of the latest (non-destructive) methods of identification, recording and detailed documentation of selected terrain relics of historical fortified settlements in the Kostolianska kotlina basin and its surroundings. Comparing new knowledge obtained by means of modern methods with results of our own terrain prospecting and currently known (previously published) information outside our investigation, a new picture of individual relics is created. We deal with the prehistoric hillfort of Veľký Tribeč and relics of medieval fortified settlements – a medieval hillfort in Velčice and a medieval fortified settlement of Studený hrad.
Študijné zvesti
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2023
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vol. 70
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issue 1
49 – 69
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In this article, we deal with the evaluation of finds of La Tène militaria – weapons and fighter equipment from the Pohanská hillfort in Plavecké Podhradie, which lies in the Small Carpathians. These objects as part of iron objects hoards are found here. They are mainly the points of lances, spears, as well as swords with scabbards with an “S”-shaped clip. In addition, there are decorative cases for knife sheathes. An important part of the finds is composed of parts of horse tackle in the form of curb bits and their components, spurs also appear. The La Téne hillfort Pohanská is dated to the period of the end of the middle and the beginning of the late La Tène LTC2 – LTD1a. As well as this site, new finds of weapons have appeared in the Small Carpathians in the form of an extremely long lance from Pezinok and the fragment of a sword from Smolenice-Molpír, where the settlement is contemporary with that of Plavecké Podhradie-Pohanská.
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The article treats finds from the Early Bronze Age and the beginning of the middle Bronze which were obtained in the rescue archaeological excavation at the foot of the Nitra castle hill, in the area of Nitra Gallery (Ponitrianska galéria). In prehistoric times, the settlement was most intensive in the Early Bronze Age, when a fortified settlement of the Maďarovce culture was raised on the whole area of 8 ha. The analysed material comes from rescue excavations in years 1996 and 1997. The dating of finds and situations is done on the basis of pottery fragments, which come from the standard pottery of the Maďarovce culture. A large part of the pottery can only generally be dated to the Early Bronze Age or to the period of the Maďarovce culture. The identifiable part of the pottery dates the settlement on the castle hill as early as the Únětice-Maďarovce horizon. To the most remarkable finds of this excavation of the settlement of Maďarovce culture belongs to the double grave situated on the bottom of the settlement pit. A comprehensive view of horse finds in the milieu of the Maďarovce culture or the Maďarovce-Věteřov-Böheimkirchen cultural circle does not exist yet. In our case the object could be interpreted as a human sacrifice. The ditch, which was partly unearthed in the rescue excavation on the area of the gallery, is probably related to the fortified entrance to the settlement area on the castle hill. The division of the castle area is clearest in case of the settlement and grave finds from the Early Bronze Age and the beginning of the middle Bronze Age. They were found during the rescue excavations under the castle hill. The several of the newly published objects from this area are related to handicrafts. A part of the characteristic finds indicates activities in the post-classical phase of the Maďarovce and subsequent Tumulus culture. We assume that this area was divided from the area of the castle hill by the natural water course of Nitrička, and not by an artificial water ditch. At first, a more detailed publication of material will be able to throw light on the development and on both the inner and functional structure of this more than 40 settlement area.
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The article deals with the German and Roman finds from the cemetery of Dunajská Streda. Some finds are known only from the books by J. Eisner and E. Beninger. According to Beninger these finds are from two different localities. The local pharmacist’s, Iván László’s letter with some drawings of the finds dug in 1894 helps us to locate the cemetery and to clarify its chronology. Based on this letter the cemetery was in the confines of Malé Dvorníky, and not in Dunajská Streda. Iván László described seven graves (urn and skeleton graves as well) together with the grave-goods in his letter. Ceramic pots and urns, Roman and German brooches, a Roman bronze vessel, and other objects are amongst the drawn finds. The earliest finds belong to the periods B1b and B1c. These are an Almgren 45 iron brooch, an Almgren 68 strong profiled brooch, and a fragment of an Almgren 236 brooch. To the periods B1c and B2 belong some ceramic urns, an Eggers 155 bronze casserole, a trumpet brooch, an Almgren V/2 iron brooch, and strap mountings from drinking-horns. A bowl, a Barbarian imitation of a ‘Faltenbecher’, and two urns are from the 3rd century (period C2). To the C3 period belong a ceramic pottery, a bowl, a bead, and an Almgren group VI brooch. On the basis of the grave-goods the cemetery was opened in the first half of the 1st cent. A. D. and was used to the mid-2nd cent. A. D. It was reopened in the 3rd cent. A part of the urn and skeleton graves are certainly from the early Roman period, but some of the graves are burials from the 3rd – 4th cent. From the point of view of the burial rituals and the finds the cemetery of “Dunajská Streda”/Malé Dvorníky is related to the cemeteries of South-West Slovakia (Abrahám, Kostolná pri Dunaji, Sládkovičovo), but only the cemetery of “Dunajská Streda”/Malé Dvorníky was reopened in the late Roman period. This cemetery was used by the Quadi, a smaller Germanic tribe settled on the Žitný ostrov already in the early of the 1st cent. A. D.
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Three graves with daggers were uncovered at the burial ground in Bajč-Ragoňa II in 1964. In one of them, in grave 39, 50 – 60 year-old woman was buried. The list of positively anthropologically confirmed and probably female graves with daggers of the Únětice culture in Moravia and Slovakia, including grave 100 of the Maďarovce culture from Jelšovce, proves that daggers approx. 5 – 18 cm long come from graves of 20 – 60 year-old women. Besides others, finds from the Middle Bronze Age were discovered at the settlement in Bajč-Vlkanovo during the research in 1964 and 1965. It is questionable whether the bronze artefacts from feature IX can be characterized as a hoard. A stone amulet and a vessel sherd resembling pottery from the so-called A2/B1 transitive horizon from this feature are noteworthy. A large vessel of the Middle Danube Tumulus culture comes from pit 13. It was probably used as a pithos; seven graves of this type are known from the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Slovakia. Pottery of the Middle Danube Tumulus culture was also discovered in pit 27; pit 56 contained potteries of the Maďarovce culutre and the Otomani-Füzesabony cultural complex. In general, finds from this settlement document slow penetration of the Middle Danube Tumulus culture in the environment of surviving Early Bronze cultures of the north-west Carpathian basin in stage B1.
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Some of the researchers consider the graves from Púchov-Ihrište and from Cífer, with uncertain finding conditions, as a proof of permeation of Germanic warriors into the area of Carpathian basin, already in late LaTène period. Analysis of the finding conditions of the so called warrior grave from Cífer proves, that localisation, plausibility and also the dating of this grave complex is doubtful.
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Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values were measured on tissues from human individuals buried at eight graves in the Early La Tène cemetery in Dubník situated in the south-west Slovakia. Collagen suitable for isotope analysis for dietary reconstruction was extracted from bone of 9 human individuals of different social status determined archaeologically by grave goods and grave arrangement. Isotope values from the bone collagen obtained from six samples of pig and a cattle individual, placed within the graves, were used as a control group. The isotope data indicated that males with weapons had access to more and/or better quality food stuffs. Their diet was richer in animal proteins than of other individuals. The results of isotope analyses support the hypothesis that the human individuals buried with different grave goods in Dubník were of different social status also during their lives and had a different access to high quality foods.
Študijné zvesti
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2023
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vol. 70
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issue 1
125 – 148
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In the article, the author deals with the occurrence and interpretation of Elbe-Germanic silver fibulae in the area north of the middle Danube, i. e. in Bohemia, Moravia, southwestern Slovakia and the Danube part of Lower Austria, respectively, in the territory inhabited in the early Roman period by the Polabian Germans (Suebi). Spring covered fibulae (Rollenkappenfibeln) and fibulae with eyes (Augenfibeln) are typical for B1 grade, in grades B2 – B2/C1 the elite wore tube-shaped (Trompetenfibeln) and knee-shaped (Kniefibeln) fibulae. The new types of fibulae (Almgren 80 var. PňovBliestorf and Almgren 142 var. Dobšice-Drösing) are also singled out in the article. The wealthiest graves do not contain East Germanic (Przeworsk culture and Wielbark culture) or Roman silver fibulae, which are also found in the investigated area, but only Elbe-Germanic fibulae. On the basis of typo-chronological analysis, during the early Roman period, the shift of power centres from central and north-western Bohemia in phases B1a-b can be traced, which are mainly connected with the existence of the so-called Marobud Empire to the central Danube region in the 2nd century (phase B2a – b), i. e. to southern Moravia and southwestern Slovakia.
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