This paper focuses on exploration of “hidden” structures at one of the largest cemetery of the Bell Beaker culture – Hoštice I za Hanou in Moravia. This site consists of 157 graves with 143 detected individuals and represents equal ratio for male and female graves. On...

From the 17th to the 19th century, a score of military events, campaigns and battles took place in the Czech lands, leaving numerous traces and distinctly changing the appearance of the cultural landscape in some regions. This paper is an attempt to critically evaluate these&#...

The paper deals with the traseological (microscopic and macroscopic) analysis of the surface of five bronze knives (unique detector finds) from the Pilsen region, which have been added to the collections of the West Bohemian Museum in the last two years. The analysis was carri...

The article deals with a hoard of sickles found at Kluky (Mladá Boleslav District). At a depth of 15–20cm, three sickles placed one above another were found (from top to bottom: sickle no. 1, no. 2 and no. 3). They were not accompanied by any pottery or other&#x...

The reconstruction of the settlement´s hinterland and acquisition of plant resources is one of the crucial questions in the field of environmental archaeology. Our study is focused on the reconstruction of the settlement’s structure and character of the environment from which the site&#...

The article deals with the findings of the sacraments, which were discovered during the rescue archaeological research of the church of St. Michael in Libkovice, which took place in 2019 and 2020. Various religious effects were often attributed to these sacraments. The interpretation&#x...

The area of the defunct village of Březová Lhota was located in the cadastre of the village of Chrustenice. It is a village founded at the beginning of the 14th century and probably disappeared during the Thirty Years' War in the first half of the 17th century.&#...

This paper reviews the aims, context, approach and early outcomes of a new transnational participative archaeology project focussed on rural village communities. ‘Community Archaeology in Rural Environments Meeting Societal Challenges’ (CARE-MSoC) includes three European countries where participative community&...

As part of the internal project "Community archeology in a rural environment - meeting social challenges" was the focus of archaeological research to the small village of Myslinka (plzeň-sever district). &...

The article presents current knowledge pertaining to the multiperiod site of Velešín – Kamenná věž. It is situated on an elongated promontory separated from surrounding terrain by four transverse ditches and a prominent hillock. The site used to be regarded as a stronghold. Archaeo...

The subject of the paper is to inform about the new discovery of a book clip found using a metal detector on the outskirts of the town of Soběslav in the Tábor region. In addition to archaeological and historical evaluation, an element ana...

Nový Žeberk castle, possibly built by Otto from Bergov in 1321–1327, belongs to a group of liege castles of John of Bohemia. The castle, during the time of its existence, had been fulfilling all its functions including residential until it demised after 1454. The oldest&...

This contribution presents nine recently located archaeological sites in the Doupov Mountains (Doupovské hory), in the territory of the active military area of Hradiště, Karlovy Vary district. They were identified by means of the archaeological interpretation of anthropomorphic elements of a ...

This paper deals with the application of deposition analysis to an unusual type of features in the Late Bronze Age settlements in Central Europe. These are long narrow trenches (referred to as ‘long pits’ in this text) with characteristic standard form and alignment, as well&#...

The aim of this article is to contribute to the knowledge of the Bronze Age around Kralovice in the northeastern part of Pilsen.

This contribution analyses a uniquely preserved wooden structure uncovered during rescue archaeological research in a plot in Radniční Street 138/11, České Budějovice in 1993. The wooden structure was interpreted as a base of a timbered house built above the ground, located on a&#x...

In Czech and Central European archaeological literature, miniature vessels made of whitish, finegrained clay and sometimes decorated with red paint and lead glaze have long been of interest. They are considered imports, the provenance of which is assumed to be west of our borders.&...

The CARE project, ‘Community Archaeology in Rural Environments Meeting Societal Challenges’ (CARE- MSoC), is a four-nation research project carrying out archaeological test pit excavations within currently inhabited rural settlements of known or suspected medieval date. The project combines a number&#...

In the article, new isolated Bronze Age metal fi nds are published which have been documented in the territory of South Bohemia over the last about fi ve years and which have not been published anywhere else. These are 137 bronze or copper artefacts from 128 sites&#x...