Abstract
Final excavation report on sites high up in the Erzgebirge mountains, Místo and Podhůří, above any possibility of agriicultural use, of Ha B (1000-800 B.C.). Both settlements were founded apparntly for another use - mining..
Near to both of them are iron ore deposits, which were probably mined there and processed at the time of transion from Bronze to Iron Age, whi the import of copper and tin did not satisfy the needs and when experimenting with thenew etal started.