Abstract
The fertile flatland of Kolín, a small town east of Prague, belongs among ancient settlement areas. The landscape of Kolín Flatland is limited on the north by the river Elbe (Labe) and in the south by the ridge of hills Kaňk, Grunta, Malý and Velký Kuklík, Miskovický and Opatovický vrch.
Today it is an agricultural area scattered with small woods and villages. For the paper, two settlement patterns were chosen to be phenomenologically analysed: the Stroked Pottery Culture with the centre in Libenice and the Aunjetitz Culture settlement pattern with the centre in Polepy.
In the paper, the author deals with the question of how the people of different times and different cultures behaved in the same terrain and how their settlement strategies varied; in other words, she researches the differences of the two settlement patterns in the same terrain.