J 2023

Archaeological excavation of a Mesolithic settlement Městec/Ostrov in eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

MLEJNEK, Ondřej, Vít ZÁHORÁK, Antonín PŘICHYSTAL a Ladislav NEJMAN

Základní údaje

Originální název

Archaeological excavation of a Mesolithic settlement Městec/Ostrov in eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Název česky

Archeologický výzkum mezolitické stanice Městec/Ostrov ve východních Čechách

Autoři

MLEJNEK, Ondřej (203 Česká republika, garant), Vít ZÁHORÁK (203 Česká republika), Antonín PŘICHYSTAL (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Ladislav NEJMAN (36 Austrálie)

Vydání

Anthropologie : International Journal of Human Diversity and Evolution, Brno, Moravian museum, 2023, 0323-1119

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60102 Archaeology

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.200 v roce 2022

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130578

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

UT WoS

001060257500001

Klíčová slova česky

Záchranný archeologický výzkum; spotřebitelský tábor; kamenná industrie; mezolit; preboreální radiokarbonové datování

Klíčová slova anglicky

Rescue archaeological excavation; Forager camp; Lithic industry; Mesolithic; Preboreal radiocarbon dating

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 16. 2. 2024 13:19, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

In 2018 a forager camp site located on the boundary of cadastral territories of Městec and Ostrov in eastern Bohemia was excavated by archaeologists under the auspices of a rescue excavation. The site was situated on an indistinct hillock above the Loučná River in a field called "U Stříbrníku", near Uhersko railway station. During the rescue excavation, a collection of 4982 lithic artefacts was obtained. Another 142 artefacts were collected during surface surveys at the site. Artefacts were excavated mainly from the plough horizon (top soil), where they were redeposited after having been disturbed by ploughing. Despite the disturbed context, it was possible to document an in-situ feature – a lower part of a sunken pit with a diameter of approximately 40 cm, where pine wood charcoal pieces were collected for radiocarbon dating analysis. Absolute dating results obtained from four radiocarbon dates provide an age estimate of 9200 cal BC, which dates this feature to the Preboreal period at very beginning of the Holocene epoch, when the climate was changing due to a rapid rise of average temperatures. Characteristics of the lithic collection correspond with this dating result. Some attributes are typical for the Late Palaeolithic (tanged tool); however, the collection is essentially Mesolithic. This is indicated by the presence of geometric microliths (triangles) and small-sized, highly exhausted cores. Although we are aware that the strategic position of this site makes it likely that it was settled also at other times, we suggest that the excavated artefacts date mainly to the first half of the Mesolithic period.