The Pálava hills during the La Tene Period.

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The Pálava hills during the La Tene Period.

GOLÁŇOVÁ, Petra and Aleš NAVRÁTIL

Basic information

Original name

The Pálava hills during the La Tene Period.

Authors

GOLÁŇOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Aleš NAVRÁTIL (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Praha, Stories that made the Iron Age. p. 393-409, 17 pp. Studies in Iron Age Archaeology dedicated to Natalie Venclová. 2017

Publisher

Institute of Archaeology CAS; Charles University, Faculty of Arts

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Chapter(s) of a specialized book

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00100645

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-7581-002-1

Keywords in English

Pálava Hills; La Tene period; hillfort; settlement; animal figurine

Changed: 18/5/2018 08:17, doc. Mgr. Petra Goláňová, Ph.D.

Abstract

In the original language

The La Tene settlement structure in the area around the Pálava Hills is relatively well known. Although fortifications at the peaks of the Pálava Hills were described in the nineteenth century, no large-scale excavations have been conducted here and the dating of the visible fortifications traces on the hills remains unclear. Until recently information was missing entirely on activities on the hilltop locations in the Late Iron Age. This situation has changed with metal detector surveys, especially in 2014-2015. Finds from the peaks of the Pálava Hills in the La Tene period can be dated to at least two distinct phases. Artefacts from Pavlov-Děvín and Perná-Kotel document activities on the peaks of the hills in LT A (a metal flagon figurine – probably a mount from a bronze beaked flagon, a pottery assemblage, an iron fibula), while those from Pavlov-Děvín also indicate a human presence in LT C1– C2 and possibly even LT D1 (a belt pendant, a Mötschwil fibula, a ring with knobs, a four-spoked wheel); a knife-cleaver with a curved grip from LT D1 was found below the Děvín cliff. It remains unclear if the site has the same development as certain Slovak hillforts (Plavecké Podhradie-Pohanská; Smolenice-Molpír) with the main occupation in LT C2 – unlike Bohemian and Moravian oppida, where the main period of occupation occurred in LT D1. In addition to the peaks of hills, La Tene finds also come from their close at the Soutěska location between the peaks of Děvín and Kotel and a large settlement has been excavated in Klentnice. It is not known whether the settlement at the foot of the hills represented a large agglomeration in the immediate vicinity of the hillfort, as has recently been demonstrated for some sites (Kolo near Týnec nad Labem; Schanzberg/Thunau am Kamp).

Links

MUNI/A/0734/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace, dokumentace a muzejní prezentace VII

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Cite

GOLÁŇOVÁ, Petra and Aleš NAVRÁTIL. The Pálava hills during the La Tene Period. In Kysela, J. – Danielisová, A. – Militký, J. Stories that made the Iron Age. Praha: Institute of Archaeology CAS; Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2017, p. 393-409. Studies in Iron Age Archaeology dedicated to Natalie Venclová. ISBN 978-80-7581-002-1.

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GOLÁŇOVÁ, Petra and Aleš NAVRÁTIL. The Pálava hills during the La Tene Period. In Kysela, J. – Danielisová, A. – Militký, J. \textit{Stories that made the Iron Age.}. Praha: Institute of Archaeology CAS; Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2017, p.~393-409. Studies in Iron Age Archaeology dedicated to Natalie Venclová. ISBN~978-80-7581-002-1.

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