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Great Moravian burial grounds in Rajhrad and Rajhradice
Hendrychová, Soňa ; Štefan, Ivo (advisor) ; Profantová, Naděžda (referee)
The diploma thesis presented deals with an overall assessment of the Great Moravian burial ground in Rajhrad (Brno- venkov), which was excavated in the years 1972 to 1976. The work is based on a catalogue of this burial ground and the neighbouring one in Rajhradice published by Čeněk Staňa. It follows individual aspects of funeral rites at a necropolis and evaluates the inventory of the graves. Based on the findings, the work dates the burial ground, compares with burial ground in Rajhradice and puts they into context of all Great Moravian burial grounds. Key words Rajhrad and Rajhradice - Great Moravian Empire - funeral rite - chronology
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Nondestructive research on the medieval settlement areas in the Mrlina river basin in Central Bohemia
Janovská, Viktorie ; Klír, Tomáš (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
This master's thesis summarizes the results of analytical surface collections and large-scale geophysical survey of early medieval settlement Havraň, cadastral municipality Vestec nad Mrlinou, district Nymburk. The Mrlina river basin was chosen as a model region, as it is an area of continuous archaeological interest with a complete record of High Middle Ages settlement. Havraň seems to be a site with the greatest study potential, the site is also a historically significant place. According to written sources, the settlement Havraň was an administrative centre of a lower order in the Early Middle Ages. There was a motte and bailey with a farmyard and several homesteads in the High Middle Ages. The site was newly researched using analytical surface collections and large-scale geophysical surveys. The aim of non-destructive archaeological research was primarily to understand the form and disposition of early medieval settlement and its changes in the High Middle Ages. A substantial part of the work is the analysis of the ceramic assemblage from the surface collections, evaluation the data in GIS, and correlation with the results of the geophysical survey. During the interpretation of the results, the graduate focused mainly on the basic idea of (1) the chronology of settlement, (2) the spatial extent...
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Early medieval settlement in Cheb-region
Hasil, Jan ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
The presented work devoted to the problematic of early Middle Ages' settlement of Cheb region does not represent the first work on the given subject. The nationalistic context of the time left its mark on studies by R. Turek, E. Šimek, and partly even A. Hejna from the 50th and 60th of the last century as well as on older German publications (to the history of research see capture 2). It is the reason of author's acceptation of the given topic without preconceived ethnically schemes.
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Cemetery at the acropolis of Libice nad Cidlinou. Re-evaluation of the archeological research.
Koštová, Nikola ; Štefan, Ivo (advisor) ; Tomková, Kateřina (referee)
Following text is focused on a revision processing of a burial place that is located on the acropolis of the early medieval settlement in Libice nad Cidlinou. There is one of the most important early medieval necropolises on the territory of the Czech Republic where evidences of elite's burials were found. The church was built during an existence of the cemetery. The necropolis was surveyed between years 1948-1957 and 1967-1973. An existing monograph doesn't fulfill criteria that are required for a modern evaluation in many ways. For this reason there were a complex revision of an extant documentation and archaeological material, consequently a new analysis and interpretation of established facts were made.
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Early medieval elite and its expressions in the archaeological material
Plevová, Anna ; Sláma, Jiří (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
(in English): This thesis analyses and evaluates three Early Medieval burial sites in Bohemia: the site in Lumbe Garden, in Stará Kouřim and known graves from the burial sites Kanín II and III in view of definition of elite graves and social structure. Each burial site is analysed demographically and possession classification of male graves is made. Elite graves are the most remarkable group. They differ by the grave goods and usually also by the arrangement of the burial pit. Exceptional graves and burial sites are compared and contrasted mutually and with other remarkable graves from Bohemia. The site Saint-Estève le Pont in France is presented as an example of burial site with evident placement of members of one population in different sites according to their social status.
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Christianization of early medieval society in the view of the movable archeological sources
Dvořáková, Nikola ; Štefan, Ivo (advisor) ; Sláma, Jiří (referee)
The presented text deals with a process of Christianization with taking account of informative value of archaeology. Movable archaeological artifacts generally connected with Christianity are paid particular attention. These objects were divided into two groups: Group I - artifacts primarily linked to Christianity, Group II - artifacts with practical or decorative function carrying Christian theme. One category of objects was chosen from both the groups (Group I - hanging crosses, Group II - Strap end) and analysed. At the end a contribution towards knowledge of the process of Christianization is evaluated.
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Archeological researches of medieval malt-houses in Bohemia
Hendrych, Vladimír ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
This work deals with archaeological evidence of medieval malting process. It outlines the history of beer and malt production, with a focus on the development of brewing in the Czech lands. The text is close insight into technology of malt and beer production and description of premises and equipment required for that. My work decribes so far analyzed archaeological situations that can be interpreted as a remains of manufacturing areas and equipment for the production of malt. Conclusion brings several archaeobotanical findings interpreted as malt. Key words: Middle Ages, malting, brewing, technology, crafts
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The settlement context of the oldest rural sacral architecture.
Mrva, Michal ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
The settlement context of the oldest rural sacral architecture west of Prague The presented text is primarily summary of recognized sacral structures from before year 1300 in selected area west of Prague. Recorded structures are being described and placed into spatial and historical context. Paper includes analysis of statistically perceivable atributes of these structures. Early middle ages - sacral architecture - rural settlements - matronaea - central Bohemia-west
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Fortification architecture in 10th and 11th century in Central Europe. Early medieval fortification of Žatec.
Kos, Luděk ; Sláma, Jiří (advisor) ; Štefan, Ivo (referee)
The master's thesis intends to depict the situation of fortification constructions in Central Europe in 10th and 11th centuries. It emphasizes relations of the Czech area and west part of Central Europe. The first part analyzes four new excavations of the Žatec fortification, dist. Louny, especially the excavations in the line of the bailey fortification. The line of young hill fort period fortification of the acropole serves as a basis for further study of the topics in question. The valuable site illustrates many phenomena which are described in the theoretical part. It surveys origins of fortification technologies, their development in the studied period and determines the position of the Žatec fortification in the corresponding context. The study for lack of ceramics focuses mainly on the analysis of stratigraphic situations and compares all available stratigraphic features which come form the excavation of the garden of the Municipal Theatre. The thesis tests one of ways how to process field data from fortification excavations and studies appropriate possibilities of further employment of the presented methods in analogous situations. Key words Early Middle Ages - fortification - Žatec - frontal stone mantle
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The selected issues of the early middle-ages burial places
Štefan, Ivo ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Ruttkay, Alexander (referee) ; Urbanczyk, Przemyslaw (referee)
I. Introduction. The dissertation paper contains four separate studies dealing with the topíc ofburials in the Early Middle-Ages. The paper's focus is the Czech Early Middle-Ages environment, however, in all studies the author tried to integrate the Czech evolution into the Central Europe context. The contents of particular chapters is the following: II. The change in burial rites in the early middle ages as an issue for archeology and cultural anthropology. The frrst part is aimed at the crucial change which took place in the course ofthe 9th century involving the handling ofthose who died- the cremation is altemated with burials of non-bumt bodies. On the basis of the oldest skeleton graves analysis the author comes to the conclusion that the above mentioned change in the Czech environment happed somewhat later than has been generally considered until now and therefore, its historical context should be re-assessed, as well. Next parts ofthe section try to capture the burial rite change as a cultural phenomenon accompanying in a series ofEuropean areas the initial steps of the integration of traditional "gentile" societies into the structures of the Medieval Europe which was being formed. The aim of the comparison of several better knowable regions was to outline the scope of the variability of causes and...
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