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Important Palaeolitic sites in Přerov-Předmostí were situated around two conspicuous Devonian limestone hills called Skalka and Hradisko. Skalka was unfortunately quarried for limestone and in the second half of 19th century there was a depression instead hill there. In 1971, a memorial plaque was placed on the limestone wall. When a new housing estate made of prefab blocks of flats was built around the relict of Skalka, the memorial plaque has been lost and the surroundings of rocky outcrop was totally changed. In recent time, the new plaque with partly different text can be seen on the limestone block. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of a project dealing with the Únetice culture stone hammers from the Prostejov region. The research was based on the results of a combination of natural science analyses (the use-wear and petrographic analyses). The Únetice culture stone hammers were artefacts in the BA1-BA2 period for which we do not know what function they may have had in the Prostejov region. The study also offers a discussion on how the objects were attached into a functional working position. The work partly builds on earlier lines of research and generally sets new theoretical directions for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The maar-diatreme volcanic structure in the vicinity of the village of Lomnice near the town of Bruntál (North Moravia, Czech Republic) has been investigated using a set of geophysical methods including ground magnetometry, gravimetry and electrical resistivity tomography. The structure was detected by an aerial magnetic survey in the second half of the 20th century. Since its discovery only limited information about this buried structure has been available. The coherence of the magnetic anomaly of 190 nT and Bouguer anomaly of -4.7 mGal indicates a volcanic origin of the structure. The funnel-shaped maar-diatreme structure is filled with lacustrine clay and colluvium of Car-boniferous greywacke, which forms the country rock. The surface diameter of the structure is about 600 m, the depth is more than 400 m. The spatial association with other volcanic centers in the surroundings of the town of Bruntál infers the relative dating of the Lomnice maar. The phreatic eruption and maar-diatreme formation could be an indirect conse-quence of effusive activity of the nearby Velký Roudný volcano. The Lomnice structure is the first Plio-Pleistocene maar-diatreme ever described in North Moravia and Silesia.

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In 2018 a forager camp site located on the boundary of cadastral territories of Městec and Ostrov in eastern Bohemia was excavated by archaeologists under the auspices of a rescue excavation. The site is situated on an indistinct hillock above the Loučná River in a field called "U Stříbrníku", near Uhersko railway station. During the rescue excavation, a collection of 4982 lithic artefacts was obtained. Another 142 artefacts were collected during surface surveys at the site. Artefacts were excavated mainly from the plough horizon (top soil), where they were redeposited after having been disturbed by ploughing. Despite the disturbed context, it was possible to document an in-situ feature - a lower part of a sunken pit with a diameter of approximately 40 cm, where pine wood charcoal pieces were collected for radiocarbon dating analysis. Absolute dating results obtained from four radiocarbon dates provide an age estimate of 9200 cal BC, which dates this feature to the Preboreal period at the very beginning of the Holocene epoch, when the climate was changing due to a rapid rise in average temperatures. Characteristics of the lithic collection correspond with this dating result. Some attributes are typical for the Late Palaeolithic (tanged tool); however, the collection is essentially Mesolithic. This is indicated by the presence of geometric microliths (triangles) and small-sized, highly exhausted cores. Although we are aware that the strategic position of this site makes it likely that it was settled also at other times, we suggest that the excavated artefacts date mainly to the first half of the Mesolithic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the course of 2012/2015 Martin Baják carried out occasional field survey, and he gathered a larger quantity of predominantly lithic tools from thus far unknown Neolithic finding place at Jehnice (Brno-City District). The collection is interesting from the raw material point of view. This newly found locality complements a hitherto blank space in the generally densely settled Brno basin and its northern margin in the period of the Lengyel culture. This paper brings the first evidence on prehistoric settlement in the cadastral area of Brno-Jehnice being presented to the specialist and lay public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the interdisciplinary training of students from the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava in August 2018, among other things, a probe archaeological excavation was conducted in the settlement of Linear Pottery culture at Staré Město near Moravská Třebová (loc. 1) and a survey of lithic raw material sources in the environs was carried out. Relatively close to the settlement (2.5 km as the crow flies), a small natural occurrence of graphite rocks was discovered east of the area of the agricultural company I. MTZ, Ltd. on the outskirts of Moravská Třebová. Graphite appears to be admixed in about a quarter of the ceramics from the Neolithic settlement and fragments of graphite rocks were found during its surface survey as well. Graphite pottery is known also from other localities in the cadastral area of Staré Město village (loc. 4) (the La Tène period) and from the Staré Město built-up area (the end of the 12th-13th century AD). The basis for our study of the issue in a broader context was represented by two stages of surface survey at the mentioned and other localities in the surroundings and petrographic analysis of 17 samples of graphite rocks and graphite ceramics from older and new findings from the region of Moravská Třebová. As the most important results of the analyses can be considered the indications for the (at least regional) distribution of graphite vessels in the period of Linear Pottery culture and for existence of probably only one pottery workshop supplying all the microregion of StaréMěsto and its surroundings at the turn of the Early and High Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with utilization of mica schists as raw materials for early medieval rotary querns at the hillfort Staré Zámky in Brno-Líšeň and their possible provenance. These mica schist rotary querns have been compared with natural sources of mica schists and usually also places of rotary querns production: Altenhof near Gars am Kamp (Lower Austria), Čučice near Oslavany (western Moravia), neighbourhood of Svojanov (western Moravia) and Kamieniec Ząbkowicki (Lower Silesia in Poland). The comparison was based on macroscopic, microscopic and geochemical properties including measurement of magnetic susceptibility or detailed investigation of accessory tourmaline using microprobe. Our results of research indicate the mica schists from Čučice near Oslavany are the most likely provenance source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]