František Trampota

The Czech Academy of Sciences | AVCR · Institute of Archaeology (Prague)

The study examines the degree of similarity of Neolithic settlement structures in two geographically separated regions (eastern half of Bohemia, Morava River Basin) based on the analysis of 11 variables related to the environment and the settlement structures. The period studied corresponds to c. 4900–3400 BC. Although the results of most of the va...

The state of knowledge of the Epi-Lengyel settlement of South Moravia is still limited to a few isolated pub lished sites, with a predominant focus on the typological evaluation of pottery. Collections of lithics remain unevaluated or are treated mainly typologically. The inventory of the settlement feature from Lidická Street, Drnholec, Břeclav di...

This study reconstructs Middle and Late Neolithic dietary practices in the area of the today Czech Republic and Lower Austria with a help of complementary evidence of stable isotope and dental microwear analysis. From a total of 171 humans, carbon and nitrogen isotopic values were measured in bone collagen of 146 individuals (accompanied by 64 anim...

Thanks to long-term efforts to identify the stone raw materials of Neolithic lithics, a dataset of the proportional raw material composition at Neolithic settlements for the eastern part of Bohemia and the Morava River Basin in Central Europe has been created, which can be analysed in the period c. 4900-3400 BCE The focus of this study is on four i...

Objective To contribute to differential diagnosis of multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) in archeological and clinical contexts. Materials A skeleton of a 30- to 45-year-old male (grave no. 806) from the Late Migration Period graveyard in Drnholec-Pod sýpkou (Czech Republic), radio-carbon dated to AD 492–530. Methods Morphological and metric anal...

The authors present part of a burial ground of the Late Migration Period in Drnholec-Pod sýpkou (Břeclav district, Czech Republic), where seven graves were discovered in 2016 and 2017. The grave goods were identified, by typological analysis, as Langobardian/Lombardian. The authors argue that even a small part of a cemetery with a limited number of...

The article offers a discussion of the new Funnel Beaker chronology proposed by M. Šmíd et al. (2021) based on the modelling of radiocarbon dates coming mainly from burial sites. The review deals with both the theoretical approach to the study of prehistoric societies, the method of selecting radiocarbon data, the method of modelling radiocarbon da...

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 m...

During rescue archaeological excavation in 2018, the skeletal remains of a young male with an unusually large and rare lytic focus in the right iliac fossa, dating to the Middle Bronze Age, were found at the Mikulov site (Czech Republic). The presented communication considers various diseases that could be the cause of this pathological condition (...

The article addresses the chronology of Eneolithic inhumation burials in Moravia based on radiocarbon dating. A total of 17 individuals were dated using 20 radiocarbon dates, primarily individuals without grave goods or individuals from problematic contexts. The study mainly covers the period of the Early Eneolithic, to a lesser extent the Middle a...

The deposit from the Late Bronze Age, uncovered in a vineyard after deep plowing in Velké Bílovice, was acquired in its entirety for the collections of the Regional Museum in Mikulov thanks to long-term cooperation with the public. It is a typical representative of the group of scrap hoard of the earlier period of the Urnfield Culture. Thanks to tr...

This dataset comprises the core spatial and temporal structure of the ‘Lifestyle as an Unintentional Identity in the Neolithic’ project. The data consist of spatial and chronological information on 2,154 Neolithic settlement sites from c. 4900 to 3300 BCE in two separate regions, the eastern part of Bohemia (Czech Republic) and the Morava River bas...

The article deals with an unusual find of a stone sculpture of a human head near Hustopeče, South Moravia, Czech Republic. The find took place in 1970‘s during D2 highway construction without any documentation. The article therefore only deals with archaeological comparison of similar finds. The analysis shows that it is probably an individual naiv...

Technological analysis of variations in blade production and the flow of siliceous raw materials revealed new understandings of different types of socio-economic functioning on a supra-regional scale. In this article, we are focusing on supra-regional relationships between technical groups and the social dynamics involved in early Neolithic mobilit...

The presented report describes the skeletal remains of a young man with multiple pathological changes, dated to between 3800–3700 BC. The studied skeletal remains were subjected to classical anthropological analysis. The palaeopathological study was based on detailed macroscopic examination supplemented by histological and radiological examinations...

A grave dated to the Middle Bronze Age with two burials in stone chambers represents a unique find in Moravia. The grave was the solitary feature from the given period at the excavation site, without any barrow identified. Part of the stone used for the construction is querns from a 40 km distant source, most of the structure is made of local limes...

The object of the paper is to update the current concept of the chronology of the Neolithic (c. 5400-3300 BC) of the Czech Republic and northern Lower Austria by comparing the typo-chronological development of pottery and modelling the corresponding radiocarbon dates. Up until now, pottery and its style have often been perceived in Central Europe a...

Micromorphology in the archaeological context is a methodological tool of modern multidisciplinary archeology It is basically a microscopic character ization of sediments in a direct context of archaeological situations with the aim of detecting formation processes the knowledge of which is essential for further interpretations This method was appl...

Micromorphology in the archaeological context is a methodological tool of modern multidisciplinary archeology. It is basically a microscopic characterization of sediments in a direct context of archaeological situations with the aim of detecting formation processes, the knowledge of which is essential for further interpretations. This method was ap...

In the dissertation I study the settlement and distribution structures during the existence of the LBK, the SBK and the Lengyel pottery styles. From theoretical standpoint I came out from the polythetic theory and the theory of archaeological subcultures by D.L. Clarke. The concept of archaeological culture follows critiques by M. Furholt a P. Květ...

Regional Museum Mikulov has undertook several small-scale archaeological excavation and probes between 2013 and 2015 which led to new information on the construction history of town of Mikulov. The article gives an overview of excavations carried out and confirms some interpretations of finds respectively. Most attention is dedicated to the area of...

Abstrakt Záchranný výzkum Regionálního muzea v Mikulově, vedený roku 2012 F. Trampotou, byl dosud jen krátce publikován (Trampota 2013, 192). Článek přináší výsledky analýzy středně velkého souboru štípané industrie (dále jen ŠI) z únětických a ojediněle věteřovských sídlištních objektů a kulturní vrstvy s nálezy únětické i věteřovské keramiky. Sou...

Archaeological theories and methods are communicated via language that shapes practices of different archaeological communities. Some of these communities wonder about their failures to spread their ideas beyond the limits of their own intellectual territories. Since written texts are central to knowledge sharing in contemporary archaeology, they r...

The Střelice Basin lies on the border of the south-western section of Brno-město (Brno City) and Brno-venkov (the former Outer Brno) district (Fig. 1). The Lengyel settlement there is assessed through analysis of material yielded by amateur digs at the turn of the 20th century, recent rescue excavation and collections from field surface survey. The...

The paper is dealing with supra-regional distribution of archaeological artefacts in the Lengyel culture in South Moravia. It describes the present state of knowledge mainly on supra-regional distribution of chipped stone industry, polished stone industry and pottery. As far as chipped stone industry is concerned, the focus is laid on a wide area o...

Brno and its surroundings was a desirable settlement site not only for its agreeable natural con-ditions but also for the availability of natural resources necessary for production of stone tools.The “Na Drdi” site in Brno-Žebětín (south Moravia, Czech Republic) is considered representativefor the period from the end of the Linear Pottery Culture (...

Report from an archaeological seminar