Natalie Venclová

The Czech Academy of Sciences | AVCR

The article presents the assemblage of finds from a sunken hut in Nižbor opposite the Stradonice oppidum on the other bank of the Berounka River. The inventory from the sunken hut, which testifies to its contemporaneity with one of the phases of settlement at the oppidum in the Late La Tène period, was composed of common settlement finds of pottery...

The long time period covered by the Hostivice cemeteries of the fourth century, late fifth–mid-sixth centuries and tenth century makes it possible to study the development of glass beads from the Late Roman period to the Early Middle Ages. Chemical analyses confirmed that the beads from central Europe reflect the principal transition from natron to...

One of the key unresolved questions regarding the archaeology of La Tène Europe concerns the continuity of settlement around 400 BC. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the countries north of the Alps, including the Czech Republic, declines during this period – a decline which for decades has generally been attributed to population migration....

With its at least 100 graves, the Migration period cemetery in Záluží by Čelákovice, Praha-východ district, investigated in the 1920s and 1930s ranks among the largest and most important sites from the end of the 5th to the middle of the 6th century AD in Bohemia. The same applies to the assemblage of glass composed of 168 beads and several additio...

Finds of raw glass and waste from two La Tène glass-working sites, the settlement agglomeration of Němčice dating to the 3rd–second century BC and the Staré Hradisko oppidum from the 2nd–first century BC, are analysed by LA-ICP-MS. The analysis results of a series of 60 samples are compared with the corpus of 1194 analysed glass artefacts from Fran...

The Late Iron Age–La Tène period in Europe outside the Hellenistic world is characterised by specific glass products in the third to first centuries BC. Evidence of glass-working together with large collections of products (bracelets, ring-beads and other beads) have been reported from several central settlements (e.g. Němčice and Staré Hradisko in...

Natalie VENCLOVÁ-Richard THÉR-Tomáš MANGEL VENCLOVÁ, Natalie-THÉR, Richard-MANGEL, Tomáš. Abraded graphite pottery fragments from the Iron Age: interpretation possibilities. Assemblages of Late Hallstatt to La Tène pottery also contain vessel fragments used for secondary purposes. These include graphite sherds with abraded edges, Þ nds of which fro...

The site of Staré Hradisko in the Czech Republic, a Late Iron Age hillfort – oppidum of the La Tène culture settled in 2nd–1st cent. BCE provided a large collection of glass together with evidence of glass-working. Besides typical La Tène products such as glass bracelets, beads and pendants, glass vessel fragments also come from archaeological exca...

A fragment of a vessel with a zoomorphic motif from the Břežany II site in central Bohemia is one of the rare representatives of figural images on La Tène pottery. A selection of roughly thirty cases from La Tène Europe of the 5th–1 st century BC presents the development of this specific expression of La Tène art from regular decoration to spontane...

Quantification procedures based on the external calibration with total sum content standardization (ECTSCS) and the external calibration with internal standardization (ECIS) were compared in the analysis of glass materials by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) with a 213 nm Nd:YAG laser ablation device and a quadrupo...

Dr Venclová is well known to readers of ANTIQUITY as the excavator of the site of Mšecké Žehrovice in Bohemia, find-place of the most famous example of Iron Age human representation. What she presents here is a provocative theory - that the Mšecké Žehrovice stone head represents a Celtic druid!.

Imported artefacts from the Late La Tene period also include mosaic glass vessels produced using millefiori, reticella and ribbon mosaic glass techniques. The artefacts are part of the assemblages from the oppida of Stradonice and Stare Hradisko and from the Jicina-Pazaha hillfort of the Puchov culture. Their origin can be traced to a Hellenistic w...

Besides monochrome blue-green glass beads, polychrome beads appear, for the first time in Bohemian prehistory, in Late Bronze Age contexts of the Knovíz culture (Ha A, 12 th – early 11 th cent. B.C.). They are formally similar to the beads made in Frattesina and/or other glass workshops in northern Italy. According to the chemical analyses in this...

Besides monochrome blue-green glass beads, polychrome beads appear, for the first time in Bohemian prehistory, in Late Bronze Age contexts of the Knovíz culture (Ha A, 12th – early 11th cent. B.C.). They are formally similar to the beads made in Frattesina and/or other glass workshops in northern Italy. According to the chemical analyses in this pa...

The open settlement of Němčice in Moravia (Czech Republic) provides evidence of local glass-working, the earliest so far identified in La Tène Europe. By the LT C1 period at the latest the workshop produced artefacts usually classified as "Celtic glass". The assemblage of over 2000 objects includes not only hundreds of finished products such as gla...

Academic discourse has its own norms related to the national culture, but also to the academic community concerned. In a linguistic classification, discourse communities are being formed with their own conventions and their own academic languages, rhetoric and intellectual styles, sharing paradigms, goals and methods. A positive aspect of discourse...

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This paper deals with the archaeological manifestations of religious activities of the Central European Celts. Until recently, the rectangular enclosures in Central Europe (‘Viereckschanzen’) were considered solely as sanctuaries, though present evidence allows other interpretations of the function of these sites as well. the criteria for recognizi...

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Whatever the journalist’s definition of eastern Europe might be ( cf . S. Milisauskas in ANTIQUITY 64: 283], let us state, as introduction to this Special Section, that Czechoslovakia (FIGURE 1) is a country in Central, not Eastern, Europe. It is somewhat controversial to speak about its ‘return to Europe’, as some politicians would have it, as it...

Les activités industrielles des Celtes de Bohême sont présentées en donnant l’exemple d’une région de la Bohême centrale. Il s’agit du bassin de Loděnice, caractérisé par une production de deux types : métallurgie du fer et fabrication d’objets en sapropélite. La comparaison avec d’autres régions de Bohême fonde des considérations sur l’organisatio...

Megaw & Megaw, in the December 1988 A NTIQUITY , published a new study of the carved stone head from Mšecké Žehrovice. Here the excavator of the site adds new information about the archaeology of this remarkable find-spot.

This paper presents the results of NAA analysis of 43 samples of archaeological glass (Bronze Age to Roman period) found in Bohemia (with the exception of one comparative sample of Mediterranean origin). A detailed description of the method used is given. The applicability of this type of analysis to prehistoric glass from the technical point of vi...

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