Jaroslav Peška

Archaeological Centre, Olomouc · Archaeological Centre Olomouc

The long-inhabited Central European lowlands have exposed to significant erosion since prehistoric times, primarily due to deforestation and agricultural practices, leading to colluvium formation and erosional features. Infilled erosional gullies, particularly near abandoned settlements, may offer insights into landscape changes and settlement evol...

The earliest Corded Ware is very poorly represented in Moravia (several type A, Moravian-type, hammer-axes, settlements with the so-called Wellenleistentöpfe: Olomouc-Slavonín, Horní lán) and the situation is not much better even in the earlier Moravian Corded Ware Culture (MCWC) period (the Palonín settlement, graves at: Dub nad Moravou, Hradisko...

Finds of stone hammer-axes are relatively uncommon in the context of the Early Bronze Age, not just in Moravia. They are more frequently encountered in the funeral environment while their occurrence in settlement contexts can be described as exceptional. The two newly presented boat-shaped doubleedged hammer-axes originate from both a settlement si...

Significance The bacterium Yersinia pestis has caused numerous historically documented outbreaks of plague and research using ancient DNA could demonstrate that it already affected human populations during the Neolithic. However, the pathogen’s genetic diversity, geographic spread, and transmission dynamics during this early period of Y. pestis evo...

In the context of the long discussion on the (non-)existence of permanent Corded Ware culture (CWC) settlements and the semi-nomadic way of life of their inhabitants, ongoing excavations of common settlements have newly gained immense significance, as in almost all other regions, also in Moravia (Olomouc-Slavonín, Horní lán; Vřesovice; Seloutky; Hu...

Some of the most extraordinary finds from the Early Neolithic period are wooden wells. These constructions permit unusual insights into Neolithic settlements, their subsistence and environment, as well as into the surrounding landscape. A recent excavation of a Neolithic settlement at Uničov in central Moravia, Czech Republic, yielded the discovery...

Chemical analysis of archaeological objects is an important part of current investigations. In the presented study, a soil from an archaeological vessel from rescue excavation close to the village Držovice (Central Moravia Region, Czech Republic; findings dated to Eneolithic period) was analyzed using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and firstl...

In this paper we argue that introduction of Bell Beakers into the material culture of Eneolithic populations did not bring any great change in the settlement pattern in Central Europe. There are certain formal differences in between the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker material culture and burial rites, however these changes occurred within the same sym...

In this study, a soil from two ceramic vessels belonging to Corded Ware culture, 2707–2571 B.C., found in a cremation grave discovered in Central Moravia, Czech Republic, was analyzed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization–mass spectrometry (MALDI–MS) combined with advanced statistical treatment (principal component analysis, PCA, and or...

From around 4,000 to 2,000 BC the forest-steppe north-western Pontic region was occupied by people who shared a nomadic lifestyle, pastoral economy and barrow burial rituals. It has been shown that these groups, especially those associated with the Yamnaya culture, played an important role in shaping the gene pool of Bronze Age Europeans, which ext...

Článek představuje první jasně doložené (malé) žárové pohřebiště jevišovické kultury na Moravě v kontextu de facto neznámých pohřebních praktik dané kulturní formace. Dva urnové hroby s typickou keramikou zachytily výkopy inženýrských sítí blízko historického jádra města Brna (Polní ulice) v nevelké vzdálenosti od sebe. Hroby datujeme na základě ro...

Although charcoal and pollen analyses have been used for many years for the reconstruction of the vegetation history, the combination and comparison of their records is still not commonly used. Our study focuses on the lowland region of Litovelské Pomoraví in NE Czech Republic, which is characterised by the presence of long-term human activities. T...

The article presents the first clearly documented (small) Jevišovice culture cremation cemetery in Moravia in the context of the essentially unknown burial practices of the given cultural formation. Two urn graves with typical pottery were identified during the excavation of trenches for utility lines near the historical centre of Brno (Polní St.)...

A preserved barrow cemetery from the final Eneolithic (Corded Ware Culture, Bell Beaker Culture) has become the pilot site of the project “Partnership in Research and Presentation of the Archaeological Culture Heritage”, co-financed by the European Social Fund, Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme. The cemetery belongs to the “group...

Mehlich 3 (M3) is the universal extraction procedure used for the analysis of plant available concentrations of many elements in agricultural and forest soils. We used this method for archaeological soils. As a huge amount of M3 background data exists, it can be used for a wide spectrum of soils and enables extraction of many elements. Using M3 tog...

The main goals of our study were to compute a contextual seriation of grave goods from the Late Eneolithic in the Middle Danube (mostly in Moravia and the Carpathian Basin) on various hierarchical levels (from individual burial sites, through aggregates of several sites, to the entire region), compare the sequence of objects in seriation sets with...

This paper describes the results of the first season of archaeological research at the Eneolithic burial mound cemetery in Dřevohostice forest (district Přerov). The research was focused on the spatial documentation of barrows, geophysical survey of selected parts of the barrow cemetery and study of barrows construction. Research should also clarif...

Scaphocephaly, a congenital defect of the skull, was identified in an adult female skeleton interred in a Funnel Beaker culture settlement pit (4590±30 years BP) in central Moravia. Scaphocephaly is a natural deformation of the skull resulting from premature fusion of sagittal sutures. Premature fusion (craniosynostoses) can cause deformation of th...

Organic Matter Residuals and Imprints in Products of Copper and Copper Alloy Corrosion: A Preliminary Study Products of metal corrosion, such as that of copper, iron, lead, silver, have the capacity to preserve remains of otherwise perishable organic materials which are placed in a vicinity of a metal object when the corrosion progresses. A proper...

Anthropological analysis of skeletal and teeth remains of Jevišovice Culture (?) individual from the locality of Kroměříž 3 - Miňůvky, Křivky.

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Překlad z češtiny Na obálce nad názvem: Polska Akademia Nauk, Oddział w Krakowie, Komisja archeologiczna

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