Bronze fragments of wagons and horse tack dating from the Early Urnfield period found in 1911/12 at the medieval castle complex on Fasnachtsberg hill near Kaisten are being republished here with an emphasis on aspects of manufacture and... more
Bronze fragments of wagons and horse tack dating from the Early Urnfield period found in 1911/12 at the medieval castle complex on Fasnachtsberg hill near Kaisten are being republished here with an emphasis on aspects of manufacture and on the typochronology of the objects. The assemblage probably consists of redeposited artefacts which once formed part of a rich grave inventory. Eight of the objects exhibit inlays that contain small amounts of tin, which allowed the artisan to obtain color differences between the inlays and the base metal when applying artificial patination, making the finds an outstanding assemblage. Several bronze fragments that had previously not been associated with the wagon are also presented, including very rare fragments of nave bands that have close parallels in an assemblage from Mengen 1905 which dates from the same period. A diachronic typological comparison with bronze fragments from wagons found throughout the region from the Carpathian Basin to Great Britain has provided new insight into the construction of the wheel mounts in particular of so-called ceremonial wagons dating from the Late Bronze Age.
Several years of excavations at the site of Virje–Volarski Breg/Sušine uncovered the remains of a settlement from the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages. The finds of a bronze pin and potsherds from the Late Bronze Age enabled the dating of... more
Several years of excavations at the site of Virje–Volarski Breg/Sušine uncovered the remains of a settlement from the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages. The finds of a bronze pin and potsherds from the Late Bronze Age enabled the dating of the settlement to the early and late phases of the Urnfield culture, with the settlement at Volarski Breg being older than the one at Sušine. The excavations revealed parts of La Tène settlement infrastructure, which indicated that it was a prominent lowland settlement from the Middle and Late La Tène. They included the exceptional discovery of a pit with the remains of a loom. Both for the organization of the La Tène culture settlement and for its pottery finds, there are parallels in the known settlements from the middle Drava valley and the neighbouring areas of north-eastern Slovenia and south-western Hungary. These settlements are considered to have a rural character and to be the result of the life needs of small agricultural communities integr...
The objective of this work is to analyse a series of funerary vessels characterized by their bitroncoconical profile and their chronology – centred between the 13th and 11th centuries Cal BC – , which can be found in the graveyards of the... more
The objective of this work is to analyse a series of funerary vessels characterized by their bitroncoconical profile and their chronology – centred between the 13th and 11th centuries Cal BC – , which can be found in the graveyards of the eastern part of the central Ebro valley and inland and Mediterranean areas of Catalonia. To carry out his work, we have focused on some examples from the cemetery of Los Castellets de Mequinenza and Can Missert de Tarrasa. In addition to analysing its archaeological context and its radiocarbon dating, we have studied its relationship with channelled decoration and the presence or absence of tumular structures in the cemeteries, highlighting the problem of the survival of the ritual of burial and the generalization of the incinerating ritual. The result of the study stresses the need to define other typological and chronological tables based on the archaeological contexts, given that the ceramics studied reflect very different traditions, and that some of them, like in Los Castellets, are the result of the indigenous settlement of the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Key words: Biconical urns. Tumuli. Channelled ceramic. Typologies. Indigenous tradition. Northeast Iberia urnfields (Spain).
in "Inter-regional contacts during the first millenium B.C. in Europe", edited by Martin Trefný and Benjamin Jennings, Proceedings from the session organized during the 19th meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, held in... more
in "Inter-regional contacts during the first millenium B.C. in Europe", edited by Martin Trefný and Benjamin Jennings, Proceedings from the session organized during the 19th meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, held in Pilsen (5th- 9th September 2013). Reviewed by Christopher Pare and Luboš Jiráň
In 1997 archaeological rescue excavations were conducted at the Zbelava-Pod lipom site on a section of the Zagreb- Goričan motorway in the Drava River zone (Podravina) near the city of Varaždin. The Pod lipom site was inhabited in... more
In 1997 archaeological rescue excavations were conducted
at the Zbelava-Pod lipom site on a section of the Zagreb-
Goričan motorway in the Drava River zone (Podravina)
near the city of Varaždin. The Pod lipom site was inhabited
in several epochs, most intensively in the late phase of
the Early Iron Age. During research in 1997, a grave was
found containing the charred remains of a deceased person
placed in an urn, which was culturally and chronologically
classified as Late Bronze Age. This is also the only
such find discovered during excavations in Zbelava, and it
belongs among the rarer finds of this type in the territory of
Varaždin’s Podravina and beyond.
During the rescue research in the cadaster of Vysoká pri Morave was discovered a settlement from the Late Bronze Age. Most of the explored objects were post/column pits, in one case there appeared a storage pit, seven objects are... more
During the rescue research in the cadaster of Vysoká pri Morave was discovered a settlement from the Late Bronze Age. Most of the explored objects were post/column pits, in one case there appeared a storage pit, seven objects are representing not specified settlement pits. Fragmental findings from partially damaged post/column pits allows dating of this settlement to the older phase of the Middle-Danube Urnfield culture. It was possible to identify at least three ground planes of above-ground buildings, which, because of their size, were likely to be used as residential units. Their disposition is similar to other well-known buildings on the Late Bronze Age settlements in the Middle Danube area. Due to its atypical localization in the flood plain, this settlement represents a significant contribution to the settlement strategies of the Late Bronze Age.
espanolEste articulo analiza una serie de vasos funerarios caracterizados por su perfil bitroncoconico y su cronologia, de entre los siglos xiii y xi Cal BC, presentes en las necropolis del sector oriental del valle medio del Ebro y areas... more
espanolEste articulo analiza una serie de vasos funerarios caracterizados por su perfil bitroncoconico y su cronologia, de entre los siglos xiii y xi Cal BC, presentes en las necropolis del sector oriental del valle medio del Ebro y areas interiores y mediterraneas de Cataluna. Para ello nos hemos centrado en algunos ejemplos procedentes de las necropolis de Los Castellets de Mequinenza y Can Missert de Tarrasa. Ademas de abordar su contexto arqueologico y sus dataciones radiocarbonicas, hemos estudiado su relacion con la decoracion acanalada y con la presencia o no de estructuras tumulares en las necropolis, insistiendo en el problema de la perduracion del ritual de la inhumacion y la generalizacion del ritual incinerador. Como resultado se pone de manifiesto la necesidad de definir otros cuadros tipologicos y cronologicos basados en los contextos arqueologicos, dado que las ceramicas estudiadas reflejan tradiciones muy distintas, algunas de ellas como en Los Castellets, producto d...
La construction de ce qu'on appelle “char de cérémonie” à quatre roues et tiré par deux chevaux représente une innovation qui est étroitement liée à "l'idéologie des champs d'urnes". Les garnitures en bronze de ces voitures nous sont... more
La construction de ce qu'on appelle “char de cérémonie” à quatre roues et tiré par deux chevaux représente une innovation qui est étroitement liée à "l'idéologie des champs d'urnes". Les garnitures en bronze de ces voitures nous sont connues, issu principalement des dépôts, de la fin de l’âge du bronze du bassin des Carpates à la Grande-Bretagne. Cette séquence géographique semble également refléter l'ordre chronologique de leur apparition. La communication abordera certains aspects de ma thèse d'habilitation, qui traite du classement typochronologique et de l'interprétation fonctionnelle des bronzes de char du Bronze final en Europe, ainsi que de leur signifiance pour les pratiques religieuses et sociales de l'époque.
