Moravian Crossroads. Landscape, roads and social structures of the first millennium BC

Abstract

The paper focuses primarily on the research of the social landscape of three time periods - the Late/Final Bronze Age, the Hallstatt and the La Tène Periods in 1300-0 BC on the territory of the Czech Republic, ie. its eastern part - Moravia - with an area of 22,349 km2. For the purposes of the Moravian Crossroads 1300-0 BC the map of old roads was reinterpreted in the territory between France and Moravia.

It was compared with the collected data on long-distance roads in Moravia in the La Tène Period (450-0 BC). Subsequently, the results were compared with data from the Hallstatt Period (800-450 BC) and the Bronze Age in the Urnfield culture (1300-800 BC).

Keywords

• Moravia
• Long-distance Roads
• Metodology of Stibology and Archaeology
• Bronze Age
• Hallstatt Period
• La Tène Period
• 1300‒0 BC
• Ptolemy´s map