Publication details
Příspěvek k poznání využití grafitu při výrobě pravěké a středověké keramiky v severní části moravsko-českého pomezí
| Title in English | A contribution to the knowledge of graphite utilization in the production of prehistoric and medieval ceramics in the northern part of the Moravian-Bohemian borderland |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta Musei Moraviae, Sci. sociales |
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| web | http://mzm.cz/acta-musei-moraviae |
| Keywords | Moravian-Bohemian borderland; graphite sources; graphite ware; Linear Pottery culture; La Tene period; Middle Ages; petrographic analysis; Moravska Trebova area |
| Description | 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 Stare Mesto village (loc. 4) (the La Tene 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 Staré Město and its surroundings at the turn of the Early and High Middle Ages. |