Peter Barta

City Museum Bratislava

The research of Iron Age oppida and hillforts plays a significant role in understanding the urbanisation processes throughout the European continent. The habitation and built-up areas have always been in the limelight of both traditional and environmental archaeological research. However, at many oppida, there were also large, unoccupied empty spac...

Mountain summits in the Slovak part of the Western Carpathians bear evidence of human presence from the Late Bronze to the Late Iron Age. According to fire-induced changes in archaeological record and finds of weaponry, some of the extreme upland sites (EUS) were viewed as places of safety or refugia violently destroyed within a short period. We ha...

Orofacial clefts are a common developmental anomaly in living individuals; however, skulls with clefts are relatively rarely found in archaeological specimens. The presented research is dealing with the first and only historical skeletal case of cleft lip and palate from the territory of Slovakia. The skeletal remains belonged to a juvenile male im...

The flotation of deposits from two recently excavated Kalenderberg Group cremation graves in DevínZáhrady (SW Slovakia) yielded a plethora of archaeozoological and archaeobotanical remains, including small, otherwise overlooked, ecofacts. The results of our analysis in the context of contemporary data show that animals clearly constituted an unambi...

Seemingly empty spaces in various archaeological settings have left many unanswered questions. This paper focuses on the appearance, maintenance and possible function of a large empty area situated at the summit plateau of the Iron Age oppidum Bibracte in France. Multidisciplinary research of the infill of the ditch that delimited this area in the...

During the Late Bronze Age, the standard method for handling the bodies of the deceased in the broader Central European region was their burning on a pyre followed by the deposition of the remains at a community cemetery. The deposition of non-cremated bodies at cemeteries appears in only several regions and time segments and represents only an exc...

At several human cemeteries of Vekerzug culture horses were interred in separate grave pits not directly associated with the human graves. We summarize archaeological absolute dating of horse graves based on typological and chronological setting of artefacts. Majority of them are difficult to date archaeologically due to chronologically insignifica...

Although Slovakia is largely forested and rich in historical buildings, it is one of the few European countries without a millennium-long tree-ring chronology. In this study, we gather all available oak ring width data from Slovakia, establish a new composite chronology and assess its climate sensitivity. The nation-wide oak network includes 276 sa...

Using a multi-proxy analysis of a postglacial sedimentary sequence from a lowland wetland, we address the possible drivers of change in the wetland habitats and surrounding landscapes of southwestern Slovakia. A 5 m-deep core in the Parížske močiare marshes was investigated for pollen, plant macro-remains, molluscs, organic content and magnetic sus...

In April 1990, an excellently preserved cranium was found during gravel extractions from the bottom of the river Danube at Moča, in the Komárno district of southern Slovakia. Neither animal, nor archaeological remains were associated with this find. According to the calibrated 14C date, the individual had lived during the second half of the twelfth...

Contribution of Radiocarbon Dating to the Chronology of Eneolithic in Campania (Italy) The paper presents new and important ¹⁴ C data from eight Eneolithic sites in Campania measured at the Centre for Isotopic Research of Cultural and Environmental Heritage (CIRCE) AMS laboratory in Caserta (Italy). Twenty-four ¹⁴ C determinations on bone and charc...

The Kuwaiti-Slovak Archaeological Mission (KSAM) is a joint project of the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters, State of Kuwait, and the Institute of Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. KSAM was established in 2004 and originated from an idea put forward by Shehab A. H. Shehab, Director of the Department of Museums and Antiquities, N...

When constructing absolute chronologies in archaeology, the aim is to detect archaeological events. In this respect, we draw attention to the relation between the radiocarbon ages of human bone collagen samples and the absolute dating evidence on the age at death. In recent material, Mebus Geyh (2001a,b) described the offset between the former and...