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The contribution presents yet unpublished ceramic pipes from several, in some cases already known, archaeological sites in Slovakia. These, in fragments preserved items, have not been systematically, but randomly collected during various occasions (field archaeological excavation, amateur collections, author‘s leisure time activities). Analysed finds, considering their parallels in Slovakia, respectively in a broader area of former Hungarian Kingdom, generally belong to common types of stub-stemmed pipes. In the proposed set are pipes from the time interval since the turn of the 17th and 18th until the 2nd half of the 19th century. The author of article believes, that find of a pipe can indicate some activities from the Modern Age (exploitation of resources, pastoralism, search for antiques, etc.) on an archaeological site with settlement from the prehistory or the early history.
Študijné zvesti
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2021
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vol. 68
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issue 2
239 - 259
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The article deals with the sedimentary rock of sandstone and sand in archaeological context, in the Urnfield period’s burial rite in particular. Sandstones and sand make a considerable part of the geological composition of the Cerová vrchovina hills in the south of central Slovakia. The topic is elaborated based on the published results of the archaeological excavation at the site from the Middle/Late Bronze Age in the village of Radzovce, Lučenec dist. The main emphasis is put on the sandstones and sand discovered at the large cremation burial ground at the site of Monosa, which documents their specific role in the burial rite of the Piliny and Kyjatice cultures. This information is extended by contemporary settlement material from the site of Somvölgy which confirms the polyfunctional use of sedimentary rocks, sand and Tertiary relics or the artefacts made of them at the site. Possible purpose and importance of selected finds from Radzovce, such as the storage pit filled with siliceous sand, is discussed.
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The article deals with the state of research of the Hallstatt period in the Slovak territory of the Ipeľ river basin. Despite numerous terrain activities which started as early as the 19th century and basically continue until now, our knowledge of the Hallstatt period in the Ipeľ region can be characterized as insufficient and our information on individual sites as scarce. However, we must emphasize the fact that none of the settlements or burial grounds used mostly in stages HC or HD has not been investigated in detail so far. The source base and the extent of its processing suggest certain differences in the cultural development as well as discontinuity of the settlement (between stages HC and HD). While there are connections with the inner Carpathian development (the Eastern Hallstatt Culture in the south-western part of Slovakia and in Transdanubia, surviving Urnfield Cultures in the south of central Slovakia) in the material from HC, finds of the Vekerzug Culture from HD suggest connections with the east and southeast. It will be possible to create a more complex picture of the Hallstatt period in this specific territory mainly on the basis of projects including extensive and interdisciplinary investigations.
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The authors offer review of systems of periodization and synchronisation dealing with issues of the Urn field period in Slovakia. They refer to the general principles on which chronological and synchronisation models are based, but also on their creation and use. The elements of current periodization of the Bronze Age have being evolved in Europe since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries (O. A. Montelius, P. Reinecke), and these systems were further developed. Specifically, the authors deal with more than twenty systems of periodization and synchronisation, which are gradually discussed and then introduced schematically. These systems were developed by Slovak researchers (M. Novotná, V. Furmánek, S. Demeterová and others) during the 20th and the early 21st centuries. In modified form, these systems are being used to study the Urn field period up to the present day.
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The authors of the article analyse a remarkable phenomenon – occurrence of material from the La Tène period at sites of the Urnfield period. Their deeper interest in this topic follows from the stated sporadically presence of iron artifacts from the Late Iron Age at systematically excavated burial grounds of the South-Eastern Urnfields in the area of Cinobaňa and Radzovce villages in the south of central Slovakia. However, traces of activities of historical Celts are also evident at cremation burial grounds of other contemporary cultures or in tumuli from the Late Bronze Age in other regions of Slovakia. Typical and often peculiar artifacts from the La Tène period also come from several upland sites and hillforts predominantly settled by the Urnfield culture or from the Early Iron Age. The authors not try to present also the studied finds selectively, they attempt to categorise, interprete and last but not least, compare them with similar material from the neighbouring countries.
Študijné zvesti
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2022
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vol. 69
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issue 1
113 – 126
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The article deals with the names of selected archaeological sites of the Kyjatice culture or selected fortified features with polycultural settlement which are concentrated in the south of Central Slovakia and the adjacent area of Northern Hungary. The authors derive the origin of the Slavic word pohan in the toponyms of Pohanský hrad, Pohanský vrch from the Latin expression pāgānus meaning rural or village, which is related to the Latin word pāgus – village. With regard to the time of origin, a contemporary semantic phenomenon – village castle – is petrified in the names of Pohanský hrad, Pohanský vrch (Hungarian Pogányvár, Pogány-hegy, English Pagan castle, Pagan hill). When named by means of Slavic vocabulary, with their localization and function, these pagan castles were different from the medieval castles which were also built in the country, but in a different era, different social structures and fulfilled functions correspondent with the time of their origin and prospering. The article is motivating and has a further ambition to consider the relation between the Pre-Christian onymic features and their names by words from a later culture. The names of Pohanský hrad, Pohanský vrch had basic functions of proper nouns when they were created in the Slavic language environment and its nearest vicinity – identification, orientation, denomination and reference, i.e. expressing relations of those features to an extinct social identity. In this case, it is related to the population of the Urnfield culture or protohistory.
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The authors pay closer attention to macro remains of cultivated plants at the cremation burial ground from the Late Bronze Age (around 1200–750 BC) in Cinobaňa, Poltár district. 314 burials were systematically investigated and 730 archaeo-botanical samples were collected between 2008 and 2014. Among the samples, charcoals from deciduous species used at cremation prevail. Macro remains of cultivated plants were identified only in seven burials and were taken from pottery vessels of various types and functions. In five cases they come from pea (Pisum sativum), one comes from naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. coeleste) and one from proso millet (Panicum miliaceum). The selected burials belong mainly to the Kyjatice culture, one to Piliny culture. The assortment of plants from Cinobaňa which has been preserved thanks to the burial rite is an indirect testimony of their cultivation in the Urnfield period in the southwest of the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains.
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The analysed short dagger with an unevenly rounded/trapezoidal blade base with four openings for rivets was discovered during the systematic surface prospection in the village of Cífer-Pác (Trnava district). X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) of the dagger’s surface confirms that it is made of tin bronze. With regard to the chemical composition of the dagger and typologically close finds of daggers from the Bronze Age in Slovakia and neighbouring territories, we can assume that the artefact was cast in the chronological period between stages BA2–BB1. The dagger from Cífer-Pác extends the group of bronze daggers as well as our knowledge of bronze metallurgy at the end of the Early Bronze Age/beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in Western Slovakia.
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Presented study focuses on quartz crystal finds in archaeological contexts, from the late prehistory through ancient history to the medieval period. Presence of artefacts made of crystal, as well as pieces of raw semi-precious gemstone variations of quartz on different types of archaeological sites and in features dated to the wide time range are analysed. Main impulse for writing this paper was the discovery of a unique crystal icosahedron in the horseman grave 208/87 at the graveyard from the period of Avar Khaganate in cadaster of municipality Čataj, location Zemanské-Gejzove, district of Senec. This artefact, together with similar finds dated to earlier or later time periods, are viewed in wide chronological and geographical context. The authors search for similarities and differences between them, and try to explain them. Selected finds of quartz crystal and beads made from this material from the territory of Slovakia, dated from the prehistory, but mostly to early historical period and Middle Ages, were analyzed using the Raman spectroscopy method.
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The article publishes the solitary find of a horizontally ribbed bracelet of tin bronze which was discovered in course of the revision excavation of the Roman castellum in the cadastral area of Iža village in 1979. Its presence at the site of Leányvár is generally explained by activities associated with construction and re-constructions of the military camp from the end of the 2nd–4th century. It is probably an ornament from a destroyed burial from the final Middle Bronze Age/beginning of the Late Bronze Age or a translocated settlement find from this period. Dating of the horizontally ribbed bracelet from Iža-Leányvár to stages BC2–BD1 follows from analogous finds from burial grounds in neighbouring countries and on identical bronze bracelets in the depot of Blučina 4 in Moravia in particular. A settlement find of a casting mould documenting regional production of bronze bracelets with three horizontal ribs is also mentioned.
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