The animal bone assemblage from Bytomin (Bytnik), site 6, shows clearly that the settlement economy relied mainly on domestic animals. Among 1,429 analysed finds, mammals dominated overwhelmingly, while birds, fish, and molluscs were represented only in small numbers. The most important domestic species were cattle, pigs, and sheep/goats, with cattle clearly in first place. Wild […]

Animal bones are among the most informative categories of evidence recovered during archaeological excavation, but only if they are studied systematically. On their own, bones are often fragmentary, weathered, burnt, gnawed, or displaced. Once analysed in context, however, they become a source of evidence for subsistence, herd management, butchery, craft production, the use of animals […]

The history of research at Bytomin (Bytnik) is not limited to the excavations of site 6 itself. The broader archaeological significance of this area became clear through a combination of older chance finds, rescue excavations, geophysical survey, and later systematic fieldwork, which together revealed a settlement and cemetery forming part of the same prehistoric landscape. […]

Four pottery kilns discovered in the western outer bailey of the oppidum at Staré Hradisko provide direct evidence of local ceramic production. These installations belong to a type widely known from the Late La Tène period across Europe and represent a well-developed and standardised technological solution. The kilns were vertical, two-chamber structures consisting of a […]

The iron fibula illustrated here belongs to Kostrzewski’s Type K, a form that plays an important role in discussions of cultural contacts and chronology in Central Europe during the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age. Fibulae of this type are not typical of the La Tène cultural sphere and, when found in La Tène contexts, are consistently […]

Staré Hradisko is one of the major Celtic oppida in Moravia and an important Late Iron Age centre in Central Europe. The site is located on the eastern edge of the Drahany Highlands, near the village of Malé Hradisko, roughly halfway between Prostějov and Boskovice. It occupies an isolated promontory between two watercourses, a naturally […]