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Paths to this and the next world: A La Tène sunken hut from Nižbor, Central Bohemia

Authors

VENCLOVÁ Natalie DRESLEROVÁ Dagmar KYSELÝ René DYČKA Michal ŠEBESTA Jiří PACHNEROVÁ BRABCOVÁ Kateřina BÍŠKOVÁ Jarmila MATOUŠEK Václav

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Archeologické Rozhledy
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/222/224
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2023.25
Keywords settlement – oppidum hinterland – excarnation – roads – ford – La Tene period – radiocarbon dating
Description The article presents the assemblage of finds from a sunken hut in Nižbor opposite the Stradonice oppidum on the other bank of the Berounka River. The inventory from the sunken hut, which testifies to its contem-poraneity with one of the phases of settlement at the oppidum in the Late La Tene period, was composed of common settlement finds of pottery and animal bones but also the skeletal remains of an older male. As such, it is a source for the study of excarnation, or the handling of the body of the deceased in the central European Late La Tene period following the end of burials at the so-called flat cemeteries. Radiocarbon dating of human and animal bones is important for establishing the chronology of the accompanying find assemblage, especially painted pottery in Bohemia. The location of the site near a probable ford over the Berounka River is the starting point for the reconstruction of the roads in the broader vicinity of the op-pidum.

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