scholarly journals Srednjovjekovna jama K 12 s nalazišta Jalkovec - Police kod Varaždina

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luka Bekić
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Large River ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Iron Slag ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Drava River ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Northern Croatia

The archaeological site of Jalkovec − Police was discovered during construction along the route of the southwestern bypass for the city of Varaždin. Most of the finds were from the late Bronze Age, with some sporadic Roman finds. One damaged pit dated to the Middle Ages was also discovered. Police is the toponym for a gently elevated river bar located north of the Plitvica Stream and south of the Drava River. As throughout history this area was flooded and marshy, the settlements were usually located on similar slightly elevated positions. The partly excavated pit K 12 contained numerous pottery fragments, burnt animal bones, tiny pieces of charcoal, large river pebbles, a piece of iron slag, and a chipped piece of flint. Through C14 analysis, the pit was dated to 1111+54 cal AD. Through the analysis of the typological characteristics of the pottery fragments, the fill of the pit could truly be dated to the 11th-12th century transition, confirming the C14 dating. A considerable presence could be noted of decoration with a toothed wheel, which otherwise appears in the period from the 10th-14th centuries. The pottery production from this period is relatively unknown in Croatia, so the analysis of this pit is offered as a contribution to further research into the beginning of the High Middle Ages in northern Croatia.

Interdisciplinary Research into Iron Metallurgy along the Drava River in Croatia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Iron Production ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Drava River ◽  
Scientific Project

This volume presents the results of the scientific project ‘Production of Iron Along the Drava River During Antiquity and Middle Ages: Creation and Transfer of Knowledge, Technology and Commodities - TransFER project (IP – 2016 - 06 - 5047)’ funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The research presented explores the evidence for and nature of iron production in the lowland area of the central Drava River basin in Croatia during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, from the turn of the 4th to the early 9th centuries. The wide-ranging methodology of the project features non-destructive archaeological site identification (surface survey and geophysics), archaeological excavation of sites with attested bloomery iron production and processing along with their associated dwelling and settlement structures, as well as experimental archaeology. The record of bloomery iron production and processing is explored via an interdisciplinary approach which examines the technology used as well as the natural resources (bog iron ores, wood and plant remains) exploited in the production process. The results of the research testify to the importance and longevity of iron production in the area of the Drava river valley.

scholarly journals Sites of archaeology in Ulvivok and its surroundings in the research of Lviv scientists

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Dmytro Pavliv
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Large River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Village

The old village of Ulvivok, located above the Bug River in Sokal district, Lviv region, is extremely rich with archaeological sites. Relief, favourable for living, fertile soils, large river have contributed to appearing of human settlements on this area since ancient times. This fact is witnessed by finds of numerous archaeological artifacts near Ulvivok and discovery of significant archaeological sites – cemeteries and settlements, which have an interesting history of research since the late XIX century and till nowadays, associated with many famous Lviv scientists. An important role in the preservation and study of local archaeological finds was played by Dzieduszycki Museum. The first references to finds from Ulvivok and the surrounding villages – Horodylovychi, Stargorod, Skomorokhy and Telyazh – are found at the works of local historian B. Sokalski and geologist A. Lomnitcki, published in 1899. J. Nykorovych – the owner of the village and amateur archaeologist contributed noticeably preservation and research of sites during XIX – beginning of XX century. The first extensive exploration in Ulvivok in 1923 was conducted by archaeologist and local historian, guardian of the prehistoric monuments of Lviv district B. Janusz, who discovered a tomb of Globular Amphorae culture and part of the burials of the most famous archaeological sites near Ulvivok – inhumation cemetery from the end of Bronze Age of “Ulvivok-Rovantsi type”. The same cemetery was investigated in 1931 by archaeologist T. Sulimirski, who published the results of excavations. Local archaeological finds were studied by famous Ukrainian archaeologist J. Pasternak, J. Bryk, K. Żurowski, J. Dąmbrowski, I. Sveshnikov, L. Krushelnytska. Nowadays, the exploration work was conducted by N. Wojceschuk, surveys in Ulvivok, Horodylovychi, Stargorod and excavation of Early Iron Age site were carried out by D. Pavliv. At least 14 archaeological sites (8 settlements and 6 cemeteries) and about 100 individual finds have been found on the territory of the village and surrounding area. This territory on the western part of Ukraine is extremely rich with archaeological sites of almost all epochs. It is witnessed by the great historical importance of this region and requires continuation of professional archaeological examinations and protective actions for the preservation of archaeological heritage. Key words: Ulvivok, archaeological site, Lviv scientists, Globular Amphorae culture, burial complex of Ulvivok-Rovantsi type.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE URTEMKA RIVER MOUTH (THE KOZHEVNIKOVSKY DISTRICT OF THE TOMSK REGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
BORODOVSKIY A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

The article is devoted to a review of the archaeological survey results of the left bank of the Urtamka River mouth (the Kozhevnikovsky District of the Tomsk Oblast). The purpose of the research was to localize the station of the Urtam ostrog, marked on the map of 1701 by S.U. Remezov, located on the left bank of the Urtamka River. The survey of this territory made it possible to detect an elevated area (Urtamskoe-II), fenced on three sides by a sub-square ditch 2 m wide and 0.4 m deep. The total dimension of the fence was 200 m, which formally correlates with the perimeter of the Urtam ostrog, indicated in a written source of the late 17th century (1687). However, the archaeological study of the ditch section and the inner fenced area of the newly identified fortified settlement Urtamskoe-II did not reveal the cross-section of the ditch and the foundations of the log wall that are characteristic for the Early New Time. Such results complicate their connection with the Urtam ostrog. In addition, the osteological materials and fragments of the rims of ceramic vessels from the Irmen culture (Late Bronze Age) were found in the cultural layer of the discovered settlement. It should be noted that for the territories occupied by several archaeologically investigated ostrogs (Tomsky, Umrevinsky, Sayansky, etc.), the facts of the discovery of the earlier archaeological materials are quite typical. However, the ditch fence of the sub-square outlines of the residential area of the fortified settlement Urtamskoe-II significantly distinguishes it from the nearest Irmen settlement of the Baturino-1. Fencing with a “П” shaped moat are more typical for the settlements of the late Middle Ages on the territory of neighboring Baraba (Tyumenka, Chinyaikha). In general, the archaeological research carried out reflected the general tendency which is the complexity of localizing the ostrog as an archaeological site. Keywords: archaeological exploration, Upper Ob Region, ancient settlements, settlements, ostrog

scholarly journals Post-Neolithic occupation in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland)

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kot ◽  
Michal Wojenka ◽  
Grzegorz Czajka ◽  
Bartosz Kontny ◽  
Natalia Gryczewska
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Se Poland ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Intensive Use

Post-Neolithic cave occupation in Poland remains insufficiently recognised. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the analysis of pottery and metal objects discovered in Tunel Wielki Cave (Ojców area, SE Poland). The artefacts were collected during three fieldwork campaigns in 1967–68 and 2018. The results show that the cave was occupied at least several times. The most ephemeral settlement traces can be dated to the Early Bronze Age and these may be related to the Trzciniec culture. The site was more intensively used in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age by communities representing the Lusatian culture. Roman Period artefacts are very scarce. Traces of most intensive use of the cave come from the Middle Ages. One can determine artefacts conditionally dated from the 11th to the 12th century, as well as younger objects, dated to the 13th − early 14th c. Single pieces of pottery can be attributed to the Modern period. The obtained results point to multiple short-term visits. The cave fill does not bear traces of permanent occupation during the Post-Neolithic period.

Glazed pottery of the Eastern origin in the South part of the Eastern Europe. The main types and sourses of production

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Boldyreva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Volga River ◽  
The North ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
River Region ◽  
North Eastern

The article focuses on the analysis of glazed ware imported into the southern regions of Russia from the Early Middle Ages to the Golden Horde period. The author studied most common types of glazed ware and their sources. In order to compare, the paper considers the groups of ware brought to the Pontic and the Volga River regions. From the 7th century in the northern Pontic region, vessels produced in Constantinople appeared. Various groups of Byzantine pottery were recorded there till the beginning of the Golden Horde period. In the Caspian region, glazed ware appeared not earlier than the middle-late 9th – early 10th century coming there from Central Asia and the Middle East. In the 11th century, there were no significant changes in the sources and number of imported products in the Pontic, while the Volga River region falls under the influence of the North-Eastern Caucasus, Transcaucasia and the Middle East (mainly Iran). In the second half – end of the 12th century, the Volga region was becoming one of the key areas points in the trade of kashi ware of Middle Eastern origin. In the 14th century, Byzantine ware first appeared there. The same period was marked with the rise in local pottery production in the Pontic and Azov littoral which contributed to the spread of these products throughout Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals The Black Church Cemetery: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of a medieval urban skeletal assemblage (Braşov, Romania)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-379
Author(s):  
Daniela Marcu Istrate ◽  
Annamaria Diana
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Archaeological Materials

The aim of this paper is three-fold: 1) to present results of the archaeological excavations conducted in the area surrounding the Black Church in Braşov (Transylvania, Romania); 2) to show the outcome of the analysis of a small human skeletal sample, and 3) to stress the importance of biocultural interpretations of burial sites for a better understanding of the process of urbanization in southern Transylvania.During the Middle Ages Braşov, founded in the 12th century by Central European colonists, was a flourishing multi-cultural and multi-ethnic urban community located in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains (Transylvania, Romania), and a busy crossroad for travellers, merchants and diplomats from Romania, other European countries and the Middle East. Between 2012 and 2013 a team of archaeologists conducted rescue excavations in the area surrounding the Black Church, unearthing a stratigraphically challenging complex of structures formed by centuries of uninterrupted human habitat, and over 1,400 graves in the medieval cemetery annexed to the church. The observation and interpretation of burial practices, grave goods and funerary topography, integrated with the demographic and pathological profile of human skeletal remains from 170 burials have shed new light on the life and death of the members of this middle-class population. In fact, bio-social and bio-cultural patterns were identified through the integration of multi-disciplinary sources of evidence.The team involved in the post-excavation processing of archaeological materials from the Black Church cemetery is keen to promote further investigations of the herein presented archaeological site, of inestimable value for the reconstitution of the development of urban life in medieval and modern Eastern Europe, and to divulgate the lesser-known, albeit not less interesting, Romanian cultural heritage to the international scholarship and the general public.

scholarly journals Makroszczątki roślinne w torfie w analizie paleośrodowiskowych uwarunkowań osadnictwa na przykładzie stanowiska Łane Małe w dolinie Kłodnicy

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 449-460
Author(s):  
Krzysztof J. Wójcicki ◽  
Marek Kloss
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Subsequent Increase ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture ◽  
Przeworsk Culture ◽  
Organic Deposits

Results of archaeological studies from the territory of Poland show that prehistorical settlements were often founded on the banks of lakes and mires. Botanical composition of organic deposits allows reconstructing historical plant communities and palaeohydrological conditions of the settlement, the subject of research was a peatland situated in the neighborhood of the archaeological site at Łany Małe. The latter is located on hillslopes of the Kłodnica valley (Upper Silesia, southern Poland). Peat formation at the Łany Małe site took place in the Pre-Boreal Period as an effect of the valley floor paludification. In the Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods as well as the Early Bronze Age, swampy alder forests occupied the entire area of the peatland. At that time, the fen surface was relatively easily accessible for humans, especially for people of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Middle Neolithic Period. It was then when, probably, the ground water level dropped down and peat decay processes took over those of peat production. In the Hallstatt Period, during the presence of the Lusatian Culture settlement, there was subsequent increase in biotope moisture. Forest communities became more open and trees were gradually displaced by grasslike plants, especially of sedge (Carex) genus. In the Fate Roman Period (the Przeworsk Culture settlement) and in the early Middle Ages, the peatland was subject to inundation due to frequent flooding, the peat accumulation was then halted by the delivery of fine-grained products of soil erosion.

Riflessioni sulle economie dei secoli X e XI

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Local Exchange ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
New Information ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Modern Economic

Chris Wickham has recently turned his attention to the economic and social transformations of the central Middle Ages. In the same period relations between the Christian and Muslim worlds have been presented primarily in terms of holy war or raids, and hardly ever framed in economic terms. Archaeology can help to answer questions about exchange routes, systems of production and settlement patterns, and pottery provides a key element in reconstructing the complexity of pre-modern economic networks. In this paper I want to compare two case studies. I will first examine the role of Palermo in the internal economy of Sicily and beyond. Recent excavations have provided much new information on the Muslim and Christian periods in its history, and particularly on the city’s planned growth and development as a centre of pottery production and export in the tenth century. I will then turn to the archaeological evidence for Rome, which Chris has described as the most complex city between the tenth and twelfth centuries, both economically and socially, in the whole Italian peninsula. In fact, based on the material evidence, Rome was far less complex than Palermo, and unlike Milan, it failed to take off economically in the thirteenth century. Chris has suggested that the success of the latter city was due to its specialized products, local exchange system and connections with a hierarchy of smaller settlements in the locality. Whilst the archaeological evidence for Milan is much scarcer, these features can usefully be tested as a model against which to compare other cities. Comparing Rome and Palermo it is the Sicilian city that can be said to have had the more vibrant economy, with its exports to multiple rural centres some distance away. Whilst a recent conference has underlined the existence of specialized artisans serving Rome’s elite and its numerous pilgrims, unlike Palermo it did not base its economy on production and mercantile activities.

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