The aim of this study is present primarily the results of archaeobotanical analysis from a late bronze urn burial cemetery site Trenčianske Teplice-Kaňová. Despite the extensive finds of the urns from urn-field burials in the whole Carpathian Basin region, the application of the archeobotanical methods and research is still marginalized. In the light of this situation, we would like to point out the interpretation possibilities of archaeobotanical material as it is (was) common in the settlement sites. Thanks to the interdisciplinary approach on this site, we were able to examine the relationships between carbonized botanical material (including seeds from the cultivated crops, wild species and charcoals) and the burial practices in (certain) concrete time and in given (certain) burial ground. From the results of the detailed analyses, we were able to identify and demonstrate the specific features of the funeral rite that are associated with the occurrence of charred plant macro-remains from the graves.
The main goal of this study is to analyse and the interpretation of plants macro remains files from La Tène localities of southwestern Slovakia with an emphasis on the Komjatice-Kňazova jama site. The obtained results were confronted with each other, a series of different types of analyses were also applied to the researched material, especially to clarify the issue of the relationship of lower settlements to upland localities, oppids. The obtained and presented archaeobotanical findings indicate certain different trends in crop popularity depending on regions or chronological degrees. When comparing the examined set of planting species from the sample from Komjatice-Kňazova jama with the findings from other settlements, it can be stated that they represent a typical composition with not significantly difference from other sites. Also, the current findings do not indicate that the inhabitants living in fortified, highland localities have different or food strategies other than those living in lowland unfortified settlements.
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