“Late Hallstatt” hillforts in the Western Carpathians: new contribution to an old discussion
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Publication date: 2021
Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, 2021, Vol LVI, pp. 221 - 256
https://doi.org/10.4467/00015229AAC.21.009.15350Authors
“Late Hallstatt” hillforts in the Western Carpathians: new contribution to an old discussion
The article presents new research on fortified settlements from the Early Iron Age in the Orava and Dunajec river valleys. Based on the characteristics of the construction of the fortifications and similarities in terms of material culture, we propose recognizing the hillforts discovered here as a manifestation of one cultural and settlement horizon related to the so-called Pre-Púchov stage. The radiocarbon determinations obtained for the contexts stratigraphically related to the ramparts from the Nižná-Ostražica, Zabrzeż-Babia Góra, and Maszkowice-Góra Zyndrama sites are already located on the calibration curve after the so-called Hallstatt plateau and allow this horizon to be dated to the 4th century BC, i.e. to the times corresponding to the La Tène B1–B2 phases. Our observations confirm the opinions appearing in more recent literature about the need to date the Pre-Púchov stage in Slovakia earlier, and discuss the thesis about the continuation of settlement at the beginning of the La Tène period. With regard to the Polish Carpathian zone, arguments indicating the possibility of the survival of settlements with Early Iron Age traditions up to the 4th century BC are presented for the first time. This allows us to assume that the process of the formation of the cultural tradition of the La Tène period here progressed in a similar manner to Slovakia, and it was not solely the result of migration from the latter.
Information: Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, 2021, Vol LVI, pp. 221 - 256
Article type: Original article
Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1/1 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Published at: 2021
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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