ŽENSKÝ KROJ LUŽICKEJ KULTÚRY V DOBE BRONZOVEJ NA SLOVENSKU (POKUS O REKONŠTRUKCIU NA ZÁKLADE HROBOVÝCH NÁLEZOV A DEPOTOV)

• Authors: Erika Makarová

Title variants

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Womenfolk costume of the Lusatian culture in Slovakia in the Bronze Age (Attempt on the reconstruction on the basis of grave and hoard findings)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Clothing is a very good measure of cultural level in a specific period. The costume of prehistoric cultures represents not only textile parts of clothes. Its parts are also clothing fittings and ornaments, including jewels decorating different parts of the body by which the cultures and groups vary from each other. Because there are not well-preserved any organic parts of the prehistoric clothing in our geological-soil conditions, even we do not have any iconographical or written evidence from that time, we can use only inorganic clothing fittings and personal ornaments for reconstruction of the womenfolk costume of the Lusatian culture. People of the Slovak branch of the Lusatian culture used only cremation, so it is hard to say how they wore the personal ornaments or clothing fittings, not as in case of the inhumation graves. Providing that person had these objects with him on the funeral pyre, many times the objects had been damaged so much that it was impossible to define not only number but also original appearance of the objects. For this reason the hoards of the bronze ornaments on the area of the Lusatian culture are important help for creating idea about kinds of the things completing mainly ceremonial costumes. Only few graves were anthropologically determined, so first we had to determine the graves where women were buried. We compared objects which had been found not only in the graves of Lusatian culture with anthropological analyses in Slovakia and other countries (Moravia, Poland), but also in the graves of current cultures. We tried to find out, if the objects had been used by women. Upon them we determined individual graves as female graves. To determine which personal ornaments and clothing fittings from hoards had been component parts of the womenfolk costume we used results acquired by comparing the objects from graves.

Keywords

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SLOVAKIA; BRONZE AGE; LUSATIAN CULTURE; HOARD; GRAVE; COSTUME; CLOTHING FITTINGS

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Študijné zvesti
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 44
• Pages: 65 - 191

Contributors

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Erika Makarová

• Západoslovenské múzeum v Trnave, Múzejné nám. 3, 918 09 Trnava, Slovak Republic