J 2022

New Perspective on Neolithic Rectangular Features Using Artefact Analysis, Soil Micromorphology and Ethnohistorical Analogies : A Case study from Střelice u Brna, South Moravia, Czech Republic

TRAMPOTA, František, David PARMA, Lenka LISÁ, Václav HRNČÍŘ, Antonín PŘICHYSTAL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

New Perspective on Neolithic Rectangular Features Using Artefact Analysis, Soil Micromorphology and Ethnohistorical Analogies : A Case study from Střelice u Brna, South Moravia, Czech Republic

Authors

TRAMPOTA, František (203 Czech Republic), David PARMA (203 Czech Republic), Lenka LISÁ (203 Czech Republic), Václav HRNČÍŘ (203 Czech Republic), Antonín PŘICHYSTAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Miriam NÝVLTOVÁ FIŠÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Gabriela DRESLEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 0079-4848

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.600

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/22:00125740

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

UT WoS

000788733600001

Keywords (in Czech)

Lengyel; zrnotěrky, mikromorfologie; tafonomie; medvědí kult

Keywords in English

Lengyel; querns; micromorphology; taphonomy; bear cult

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 21/3/2023 11:07, Mgr. Renata Macholdová

Abstract

V originále

The function of sunken rectangular features in the Late Neolithic has been a subject of interest in Central Europe for many years. This type of pit is not found very often. One of the latest examples is a square Lengyel feature in the village of Střelice near Brno. A study of the microstratigraphy of the fill has made it possible to qualitatively move the debate to a new level. The qualitative assessment of bone micro-fragments is also innovative for the method of micromorphology in the archaeological context. The study also includes an analysis of artefacts in the actual fill of feature 562, especially the deposits of fragments of “other lithic industry”, pottery and parts of an animal’s body. The discovered situation is then interpreted in the context of other known contemporary features of this type. The presence of excrement with digested bone micro-fragments in the lower layer and the absence of a floor treatment, tread horizon or bedding can be interpreted in the context of ethnohistorical analogies, e. g., as the short-term use of a faecal pit for an omnivorous or carnivorous species (bear) with a subsequent ritual ending.

Links

GA19-16304S, research and development project
Name: Způsob života jako nevědomá forma identity v neolitu.
Investor: Czech Science Foundation