Vera Klontza-Jaklova

• Mgr., PhD.
• Masaryk University

Byzantská říše patřila v době raného středověku k námořním velmocem, a proto organizace jejího námořnictva, stejně jako technika stavby lodí, navigace a síť přístavů, odráží komplexitu této pro impérium životně důležité instituce. Článek se zabývá otázkou struktury a fungování byzantského námořnictva mezi 4. až 12. stol. Po stručném historickém pře...

The article presents a set of horse skeletons (11 individuals) found at three excavation sites south of the city of Brno (Czech Republic), dated to the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The skeletons were deliberately deposited within agricultural estates and the assemblage consisted of complete or near-complete skeletons. The osteological as...

In the first part of the study, the authors reviewed and evaluated archaeofaunal, archaeological, iconographical, and historiographical information from the Neolithic Period up to the end of the nineteenth century. The domesticated horse (Equus Caballus) was imported to the island at the end of the 3rd millennium B.C.E. and ca 1500 B.C.E. was an in...

Synecdemus Novus is a dataset of published archaeological sites, buildings, and associated markers located in Crete and dating between the Late Roman Period (3rd century C.E.) and the Venetian domination of the island (1204 C.E.). The dataset, consisting of 1234 entries, lists the location, spatial coordinates, type of the site/building/marker, chr...

Book review on an exhibition catalog.

We gathered evidence on the occurrence of equines in the island of Crete from the Neolithic until 1895. We relied on published archaeological and osteological records plus on historical written documents. Our dataset includes a description of the type of evidence, where this was located, and the associated absolute and relative chronologies. The co...

The Cretan (or Messara, Giorgalidiko) horse or pony was first mentioned as a distinct specific horse breed by the Ottomans in 1895. This horse, however, may have a much longer history, perhaps going back to the prehistoric era. It also has an unsure future. Based on a review of available archaeofaunal, iconographical, and historiographical informat...

The RomAniDat data community is a network of experts from diverse fields including archaeozoology, archaeology, and history, who collaborate on the collection of faunal data from the Roman period. Compiled data is made available via Pandora, a new technological platform that allows for the building of data communities where its members directly man...

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 aim of the paper is to discuss how and why the Knossian centralized state system collapsed and, collaterally, the evidence of this collapse is used to infer the existence of a centralized state system in LM IA Crete. LM IA Crete seems to have all the characteristics of an early (primary, segmentary) 2 state. The Santorini eruption (LM IA/IB) ha...

Art of the Este culture and Situla Art in general represent an interesting chapter of the Italian Iron Age. Evidence of the influence of both can also be recognized in Central Europe, north of the Alps, during the 6th century BC. The traded artifacts with figurative motifs can be divided into three groups: 1. Objects from Italy, probably from Nort...

The review of the Lothar Sperber's monograph tries to evaluate the utility of the extended typological chains of bronze artifacts, their importance, and validity for absolute chronology of the particular period and region.

In this paper, I discuss the phenomenon of the similarity of Bronze Age symbolic system; particularly the likelihood that the central European Age elites shared the same cosmological systém with their Aegean, and even Eastern Mediterranean, counterparts, and the plausibility of their connection within power models and power structures.

Our poster presents the overview of the contemporary chronological systems synchronizing archaeological phases of Central-European Early and Middle Bronze Age with their counterparts in the Aegean region trying to harmonize traditional archaeological evidence with some hindsight to radiocarbon dates. We discuss possible methodologies how to questio...

The aim of this article is to clarify the status of Byzantine archaeology, its development, and its relationship with archaeology of the European Middle Ages. Byzantine archaeology is a young discipline which faces a number of problems and limitations. In the first part of the paper, the authors analyse the problem that basic terminology is either...

The aim of this article is to clarify the status of Byzantine archeology, its development and its relationship with the archeology of the European Middle Ages. Byzantine archeology is a young discipline, which faces a number of problems and limitations. In the first part of the paper, we analyze the problem that a basic terminology is either lackin...

The overall aim of this article is to contribute to discussion of the value of archaeology for historical studies of the Late Roman and Byzantine periods and to underline the fact that studies of plain and fragmentary pottery not only can yield valuable typological, technological and chronological information but this kind of data can and should be...

In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases. The final domestic activities were particularly we...

This article deals with the specific aspects of Early Byzantine amphorae which arise from their function as a shipping container. This type of pottery has a very long tradition in the eastern Mediterranean; at least since the Middle Bronze Age. The shape of the vessel and the technology used were virtually constant from the Late Classical period un...

The LM IB “Hoarding Horizon” on Crete (An essay). This paper’s aim is to contribute to the discussion of the meanings of the terms as hoard, treasure, wealth deposition etc. used to describe deliberately concealed artefact deposits. This article discusses the question whether the deposition of metal and valuable objects of LM IB strata can be compa...

The current study considers a mixed environmental/historical statistical model to establish a probabil-ity map for settlement locations in Crete's Malia-Lasithi region during the Minoan Protopalatial period. The work represents the continuation of previous research that focused on site location choices during the Protopalatial and whereby a compari...

This volume contains thirty-five papers from a 2010 conference on landscape archaeology focusing on the definition of landscape as used by processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers, in contrast to the definition favored by postprocessual archaeologists, cultural geographers, and anthropologists. This tension provi...

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