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Vodní kovové depozitum doby popelnicových polí z Prosiměřic na Znojemsku : k otázkám vztahů depozit, sídel a vod
| Title in English | An underwater metal hoard of the Urnfield Period from Prosiměřice in Znojmo District : On the issue of the relationships between hoards, settlements and waters |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehled Výzkumů |
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| web | https://www.arub.cz/prehled-vyzkumu/aktualni-cislo/ |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.47382/pv0652-02 |
| Keywords | Metal hoards; elemental composition; use-wear analysis; pollen analysis; settlement areas; metallurgy; waters; South Moravia; Late Bronze Age |
| Description | The Prosiměřice 2 metal hoard was discovered during archaeological rescue excavation in 2021 on the northern edge of the cadastre, where it was located in the floodplain of the River Jevišovka below the groundwater level. In addition to nine ingots and a broken-off sprue, the hoard contains two socketed axes, which date the find to the later stage of the Middle Danube Urnfield Culture. All the artefacts of the hoard were subjected to material composition analysis, which proved both relatively pure and variously impure copper (most ingots) as well as tin bronze (axes, ingot, sprue). According to X-ray computed tomography and use-wear analysis, the axes are imperfect, though functional, casts. The Prosiměřice 2 hoard therefore contains artefacts from various stages of the metallurgical production chain, just like the previously discovered Prosiměřice 1 hoard. Both hoards are part of a contemporary open settlement area and their contents could thus indicate local metallurgical activity. Other metal hoards in settlement areas also indicate a potential correlation between their contents and metallurgical production in open settlements. The location of both hoards from Prosiměřice in a floodplain wetland or even underwater points to their irreversible deposition and, like most other multi-piece hoards in a water environment, we associate them with communal socio-cultic rituals. |
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