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Stone Age exotic pottery from Hrazany settlement.

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011

Abstract

Subject of the publication is ceramics from Hrazany settlement, which has no equivalent in the Czech environment. From the stratigraphic situation in the place of discovery is clear only that precedes La-Tène settlement.

This is a total of 15 fragments apparently derived from one vessel, in terms of Czech prehistoric decorated with a very peculiar (Fig. 2 and 3). As the probable origin of this range of ceramics was identified belt Subneolithic Eurasian cultures, namely Neman culture in Poland (Fig. 4).

For the interpretation of finding in full Czech area scale is essential that the described material was found in the middle Vltava areas, i.e. residential several centuries hiatus in the Neolithic and Eneolithic. Interpretation of the situation is not unique.

It could be a convergence of shapes and decorations, or a link to a very different cultural and other time-located environment. It is also possible to consider the accidental contact with no other historical context, according to dating Neman culture of its parent at some point in the time interval from the Early Eneolithic the beginning of the Bronze Age.

Finally, it may be a evidence of the survival of hunter-gatherer, respectively Subneolithic communities deep in the Late Stone Age in Middle Vltava areas and South Bohemia.