The Býčí Skála Cave in the Moravian Karst. The central cave sanctuary from the Early Iron Age in the light of new discoveries.
2021
Abstrakt
The Býčí skála Cave is one of the most important speleoarchaeological sites in Central Europe. It is not only the site of the first Paleolithic research in the today's Czech Republic, but especially the cave with famous Hallstatt finds discovered by Heinrich Wankel in 1872.
It is a Central cave site of the Hallstatt period (Early Iron Age), which was repeatedly visited and where the burials of the most important "early Celtic" elites were placed. The lecture not only presents the history of cave research, this year numbering 150 years, but also discusses the various interpretive possibilities that the discovery offers.
It also presents a two-year research on the site and the first results of scientific analyzes performed there.