Early Únětice Culture Cemetery at Praha-Ruzyně. On the beginnings of the Bronze Age in Bohemia Early Únětice Culture Cemetery at Praha-Ruzyně. On the beginnings of the Bronze Age in Bohemia
2015
Abstract
The 11 graves from Praha-Ruzyně presented in this paper were excavated 1999 in course of a brief rescue excavation. The site history, topography, graves and their offerings, burial rites, as well as preliminary anthropological observations are all being discussed.
Typological analysis indicated a date within the earlier, but not the earliest stages of the Únětice culture. This relatively limited assemblage, with only 6 offering bearing graves, still gave rise to a number of interesting questions.
Special attention is given to the question of synchronisation with the Danubian Early Bronze Age and the applicability of Ruckdeschels periodization to Central Bohemia.