Archeologické rozhledy

01/01/2025

2024 is in the past. Let's take a look back at the most read articles of the year:

1️⃣Schönfelder: Celtic migrations and the spread of La Tène Culture: A consideration of possible explanatory models
2️⃣Drtikolová Kaupová et al.: The first results of diet reconstruction of individuals buried at the All Saints Charnel House in Kutná Hora – Sedlec
3️⃣Kyselý – Peške: New discoveries change existing views on the domestication of the horse and specify its role in human prehistory and history – a review
4️⃣Kysela – Čižmářová: There is no Němčice without ducks: An assemblage of small Recent La Tène bronze figurines from the Middle Danube region
5️⃣Burgert et al.: Raw materials for Neolithic ground tools from the extraction fields at Bílý Kámen Hill, Central Bohemia

(DOIs in the comment)

19/12/2024

09/12/2024

FORTHCOMING: The development of the early medieval centre of Stará Boleslav revealed by radiocarbon dating of the multi-level cemetery at the Basilica of St Wenceslas and the Church of St Clement
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.244 (in 🇨🇿)

28/11/2024

FORTHCOMING BOOK REVIEW: Françoise Bostyn – Jacek Lech – Alan Saville – Dagmara H. Werra (eds.): Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
reviewed by Martin Oliva
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.259 (in 🇨🇿)

06/11/2024

It seems that America wants to be great again🤔Well, let's get some inspiration from our anthology of papers about the archaeology of Great Moravia:

▶️The pottery from the early medieval settlement at Pellendorf/Gaweinstal (Lower Austria) and its relationship to the Great Moravian sites on the River March
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2019.19

▶️On the subject of Great Moravia, early medieval archaeology and archaeologists in general
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2015.25 (in 🇨🇿)

▶️Current stage of isotopic research on diet, residential mobility and agricultural practices of the Great Moravian population (9th–10th century AD)
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2022.9 (in 🇨🇿)

▶️Technical marks as a neglected archaeological record?
Photogrammetric analysis of the bottoms of vessels from Great Moravian pottery workshops at the ‘U Víta’ site in Staré Město (Uherské Hradiště district)
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2016.19 (in 🇨🇿)

31/10/2024

Grog (ground potsherds) remains an unexplored clay temper for the Late Band Pottery and the Stroke-Ornamented Ware in Polish Lowlands. In her paper, D. Żurkiewicz presents a comprehensive overview of currently available finds and highlights the importance of this production technology among some Neolithic communities. She interprets grog tempering beyond potential technological advantages as the symbolic transformation of old vessels into new forms, which allows an alternative conclusion about the origin of some post-LBK communities in the Polish Lowlands.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.242

25/10/2024

The Bronze Age transformed Central Europe in various aspects. Explore the changes in subsistence strategies and the assortment of edible plants in the new study by A. Pokorná and colleagues. They examined charred macroremains from 39 archaeological sites across the Czech Republic providing an overview of crop records and evidence of complex agricultural transformation during the Bronze Age.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.223

21/10/2024

A skeleton of an adolescent male with multiple perimortem trauma was excavated at a small early medieval rural cemetery in Northwestern Bohemia. Anthropological analysis undertaken by J. Witan and colleagues identified the individual as a victim of an armed conflict. Read more in the current issue 🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.238

18/10/2024

🗡One does not simply find late Merovingian swords every day, especially not in Bohemia. Read the new paper by Košta et al., which presents this unique find and its thorough archaeometric analyses involving X-ray computed tomography and metallography.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.240

15/10/2024

New issue has just been published online ‼️
➡️ https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/issue/view/39

Read the editorial about "online first" releases and hardships of academic publishing:
https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.252

25/09/2024

FORTHCOMING❗️ Żurkiewicz: Far from home: Stroke-Ornamented Ware and grog temper in the Polish Lowlands
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.242

23/09/2024

FORTHCOMING: Jan Kypta reviews the book Zánik a pustnutí venkovských sídlišť v pozdním středověku by Tomáš Klír
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.256 (🇨🇿)

15/09/2024

Do not miss book reviews in the current issue. Josef Unger reviewed Fragmenty Velké Moravy and Jiří Macháček reviewed two volumes of The Sphinx of Slavic sigillography.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.6
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.7

05/09/2024

How should we comprehend the so-called Celtic migrations and the spread of La Tène Culture?

In his new discussion paper, Martin Schönfelder proposes three models which may help to explain the main processes behind these phenomena based on long-term research of the La Tène societies of the 4th/3rd century BC, which were deeply rooted in the ideals and behavioural norms of the ‘princely’ elites of the 5th century BC.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2024.5