Dosavadní rozšíření výrazného typu bronzové spony středolaténské konstrukce se zdobeným štítkovým lučíkem se omezuje pouze na středoevropský prostor s jednoznačným těžištěm výskytu v Čechách a na Moravě. Tato skutečnost opravňuje jejich J. Wernerem navržené označení jako „bójské“ spony. Spony získané z oppidálního prostředí ukazují na jejich rámcové datování do rozmezí stupňů LT C2-D1. and The existing distribution of a distinct type of bronze fibula of the Middle La Tène construction with a decorated plate bow is restricted to Central Europe, with a pronounced concentration of finds in Bohemia and Moravia. This fact justifies their designation as “Boiian” fibulae, as proposed by J. Werner. The fibulae acquired from oppida indicate a general dating in the phases LT C2-D1.
V roce 2013 uplynulo 170 let od přijetí tzv. „systému tří period“ (doba kamenná, bronzová a železná) v české archeologii. V jeho praktickém použití patří priorita Dánu Ch. J. Thomsenovi (publikováno 1836) před soudobými německými badateli (Lisch, Danneil), pro německojazyčnou sféru (včetně české) měl zásadní význam překlad Thomsenova textu do němčiny (1837). V Čechách jej poprvé jednoznačně aplikoval J. V. Hellich, první kustos archeologie v Národním muzeu v Praze, v rukopise rukověti české archeologie z roku 1843 – tedy souběžně s jeho přijetím ve většině evropských zemí jižně od Dánska. Silný odpor proti „skandinavismu“ v německé archeologii 2. pol. 19. stol. neměl v Čechách širší ohlas, spíše tento systém narážel na přetrvávající zaměření české vědy k etnohistorickým interpretacím; teprve na počátku 20. stol. byl zápas obou směrů vybojován ve prospěch plného uplatnění třídobé periodizace v duchu artefaktuálního pozitivismu. and The year 2013 marked the 170th anniversary of the adoption of the ‘three-age system’ (the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age) in Bohemian archaeology. The Dane Christian Jurgensen Thomsen, who published his findings in 1836, is given more credit for the practical application of the three-age system than his contemporaries, the German scholars Lisch and Danneil. The translation of Thomsen’s text into German in 1837 was of fundamental importance for the German-speaking sphere (including Czech). The three-age system was first unambiguously applied in Bohemia by J. V. Hellich, the first curator of archaeology at the National Museum in Prague, in an 1843 manual of Bohemian archaeology, i.e. simultaneously with the adoption of the system in the majority of European countries south of Denmark. The strong resistance to ‘Scandinavism’ in German archaeology in the second half of the nineteenth century was not widely shared in Bohemia. Instead, this system probably ran up against the lingering focus of Bohemian research on ethnohistorical interpretations. It wasn’t until the beginning of the twentieth century that the conflict between the two directions was settled in favour of the full application of the three-age periodisation in the spirit of artefactual positivism.
he paper quantitatively analyses a sample of 300 Czech prayer books and other popular religious handwritten material (not including songbooks) from the 18th and 19th centuries. The author maintains that most of the material consisted of (partial) transcriptions of popular printed books and their widespread popularity was influenced by the growth of literacy and the individualization of piety. Their use was by no means limited to the milieu of the secret non-Catholics which were proscribed until 1781; indeed the majority of Catholic writings were not fully orthodox. The character and decoration of the writings in question were not directly related to the confessional nature of their originators and/or users; in fact the general rules of early modern popular culture played a much more important role and in many cases it is difficult to determine whether the source is catholic, protestant or sectarian. Prayer books fully reflected official forms of religion relatively late i.e. from the tum of the 18th and 19th centuries as a result of church domination over popular piety. However, even at this time the process did not result in absolutes: religious writings substituted the non-existence of baroque literature the printing of which was prohibited by the enlightened censorship prevalent at the time. Only a change in religious forms and new opportunities for the printing of pre-enlightenment books in the mid-19th century led to a decline in handwritten prayer books.
The Triangle cemetery in Prague-Střešovice was the only preserved part of the great burial site from the 9th–10th century AD; this site was partially destroyed beginning in the 18th century by the extraction of clay for the Strahov brick factory. A total of 49 graves, all dated to the 10th century, were uncovered in the preserved part of the cemetery in 2012. Children’s grave no. 16 was the richest of the children’s graves and the second richest of all graves in the cemetery. A total of 19 silver jewels were found in the grave: kaptorga – amulet container, beads, hollow spherical pendants – gombiks. A technical study was performed to describe the construction of the different types of jewels and identify the material used to manufacture them. The artefacts were examined with a stereomicroscope, subjected to X-ray radiography and observed and analysed with scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM/EDS). A replica provided practical information about the time of realisation of each type of jewel. Analogies from the technical and thematic points of view were further searched. The set of jewellery comes from the production of the Prague workshop which enriched the tradition of Great Moravian jewellery with new elements inspired by cultural influences from the west, east and south. and Pohřebiště Triangl bylo jedinou zachovanou částí velkého středohradištního pohřebiště ničeného od 18. století těžbou hlíny pro strahovskou cihelnu. V poloze Triangl bylo v roce 2012 prozkoumáno 49 číslovaných hrobů s výbavou datující je do 10. století. Dětský hrob 16 byl nejbohatší z dětských pohřbů a druhý nejbohatší celkově, bylo v něm nalezeno 19 kusů stříbrných šperků – kaptorga, korálky a gombíky. Technologický rozbor šperků má za cíl poznat způsob výroby jednotlivých typů a určit suroviny použité při jejich výrobě. Předměty byly zkoumány pomocí optické stereomikroskopie, rentgenografie a elektronové rastrovací mikroskopie ve spojení s energiově disperzní spektroskopií (SEM/EDS). Byly vyhledány analogie, co se týče technologie výroby i použitých výzdobných motivů. Replika poskytuje představu o čase potřebném k výrobě každého jednotlivého typu šperku. Soubor šperků pochází z produkce pražské dílny, která tradici velkomoravského šperkařství obohatila o nové prvky inspirované kulturními vlivy ze západu, východu i jihu.
This note is concerned with a fragmentary gold covered disk brooch which comes from the hill-top settlement of Rubín u Podbořan, a site with evidence of occupation from the later prehistoric to post-Roman phases. Previously published as Roman in date there are strong arguments for relating this piece to a class of early La Tène brooches or mounts normally associated with élite burials or other higher status locations. and Předmětem tohoto příspěvku je fragment pozlacené terčovité spony z výšinného sídliště Rubín u Podbořan, lokality s doklady osídlení od mladšího pravěku. Spona byla v literatuře dříve označována jako římská, nicméně existují pádné důvody ji řadit do kategorie časně laténských spon, obvykle nacházených v elitních pohřbech či jiných prestižních kontextech.
Radiocarbon dates have been obtained for two Middle Upper Palaeolithic sites in Bohemia. Two bones from Lubná I are dated to 21,8 and 21,4 ka BP. They indicate a Late Gravettian occupation, possibly related to the Willendorf–Kostienkian. Two bones from the cultural layer at Jenerálka are dated to 22,5 and 21,9 ka BP. This age is supported by the presence of Saiga tatarica. The assemblage of Jenerálka is problematic. It may represent a mixture of Late Gravettian with Aurignacian artifacts, but a Late Aurignacian is another possibility suggested by the young dates. and Článek přináší prvá radiokarbonová data z lokalit střední fáze mladšího paleolitu v Čechách. Dvě kosti z Lubné I jsou datovány do doby 21 800 a 21 400 B.P. Dosvědčují pozdně gravettské osídlení, s možným vztahem ke skupině Willendorf–Kostěnki. Dvě kosti z kulturní vrstvy v Jenerálce jsou datovány do doby 22 500 a 21 900 B.P. Správnosti takového určení nasvědčuje i přítomnost ostatků Saiga tatarica. Soubor z Jenerálky je však problematický: může se jednat o směs pozdně gravettských a aurignacienských artefaktů, vzhledem k mladšímu datování nelze vyloučit ani příslušnost k pozdnímu aurignacienu.
Kosterní materiál byl získán při záchranném archeologickém výzkumu, který proběhl v r. 2009 v Nymburce. V lokalitě bylo nalezeno celkem 10 hrobů: 8 hrobů je datováno do střední doby bronzové a 2 hroby do doby halštatské (bylanská kultura). Tento rozbor je zaměřen pouze na pohřby z kruhového objektu (obj. 240), který byl datován do střední doby bronzové. V kruhovém objektu bylo nalezeno 7 hrobů (z toho jeden dvojhrob). and Skeletal material was obtained during the rescue archaeological excavation, which took place in 2009 in Nymburk. At the site were found 10 graves: 8 graves were dated to the Middle Bronze Age and 2 to the Hallstatt period (Bylany culture). This analysis focuses only on the funerals in a circular ditch, which was dated to the Middle Bronze Age. In the circular ditch were found 7 graves.
This article aims to investigate the viewpoint of the
Austro-German liberal movement - both ideologically and practically - towards the arguments for Bohemian state rights made by the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech political parties in the period from 1861 to 1879. The February Patent of 1861 is a convenient starting point because it reintroduced representative bodies to the Habsburg Monarchy and facilitatedthe development of modern democratic politics. The 1879 parliamentary election is this article’s end point since it constituted a significant turning point in Austrian and Bohemian politics. The Austro-German liberals lost the majority in central parliament while the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech parties attended parliament after a sixteen-year absence, joining the conservative-Slav coalition supporting the government.
The principal argument is that while the Austro-German liberals (particularly the Bohemian-German faction) were generally opposed to Bohemian state rights, this must be qualifi ed by the genuine desire for compromise (under certain conditions), considerable tactical fl exibility and the wider Imperial context. Chronologically, the article focuses on key parliamentary debates to
illustrate the changing relations: the fluid 1860s, the crucial period from 1867 to 1871 (when there was a real possibility of Bohemian state rights) through to the turning point of 1879. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The large compendium titled Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild contains two volumes devoted to Bohemia (1894 and 1896) and one volume devoted to Moravia and Silesia (1897). Chapters on folk culture are accompanied by a plethora of pictures, a significant number of which depict rural residents wearing traditional dress. However, the informative value of illustrations depicting folk costumes from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia as a source for ethnological research is limited. The unbalanced selection of examples from individual regions is problematic. Understandably, a great emphasis was placed on the German ethnic group, but even ethnographic regions inhabited by Czech population are not represented proportionally to the preservation of traditional culture, so the resulting visual perception does not even correspond to the reality in the late nineteenth century. Czech painters were addressed to illustrate two volumes about Bohemia, but the Moravia and Silesia volume was illustrated almost exclusively by artists with ties to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where they studied or taught, and to the imperial court. However, not only Viennese, but even all Czech painters had no direct experience with the folk culture in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. They worked according to supplied photographs, the availability of which eventually influenced the choice of illustrations. The successful level of both the drawing and painting templates and their xylographic treatments posed a positive aspect. And what is essential - the comparison with the traced model photographs confirms their basically faithful interpretation. Even so, the ethnologist cannot underestimate the critical insight into the documentary value of the illustrations accompanying the admirably monumental work Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild, named Kronprinzenwerk after its initiator and partly co-author, Crown Prince Rudolf.
The article discusses the methodology employed in the excavation of the outer fortified area of the Early Medieval stronghold at Budeč. This methodology made it possible to establish in the stronghold’s western part, at the “Na kašně” location (field excavation in 1981–1986 and in 1989), the stratigraphic succession of anthropogenic activities, which helped to clarify the character, interconnection and dating of development forms of the outer fortifications and settlement in the studied part of the Budeč foregrounds. and Článek seznamuje s metodikou výzkumu vnějšího opevněného areálu raně středověkého hradiště Budeč, která umožnila v jeho západní části, v poloze Na kašně (terénní výzkum v letech 1981–86, 1989) stanovit stratigrafickou posloupnost antropogenních aktivit, a vedla tak k objasnění charakteru, provázanosti a datování vývojových forem vnějšího opevnění a osídlení ve zkoumané části budečského předhradí.