List of authors

Foreword and acknowledgements 

Introdudion

On the study of Early Bronze Age cemeteries in Bohemia

Site location, geomorphologieal, geological and pedological situation

• Geomorphological situation
• Geological and pedological conditions
• Background geological knowledge of the site
• Geological development of the studied territory

Early Bronze Age finds from the cadastral territory of Mikulovice

• “Kaspar” brickworks in Mikulovice
• Other Early Bronze Age sites in the cadastral territory of Mikulovice near Pardublee

Archaeological excavation of the Mikulovice “V louckach” site

Catalogue of graves – find situation

• Studied information
• Description of individual graves and features

Grave pits

• Shapes, dirnensions and orientation of gave pits
• Grave constructions
• Amount of work related to the burial ritual
• “Settlement pits” with skeletons
• Intentional disturbance of grave pits – “plundering” or “manipulation” digs?
• Superposition of grave pits – vertical stratigraphy

Skeletalremains – archaeological observations

• State of preservation of skeletal remains
• Arrangement of skeletal remains (their parts) in the grave pit
• Position of skeletal remains (their parts)
• commentary and discussion

Cases for burying the deceased and other burial components from organic materials

• Cases for burying the deceased
• Underlays and other parts of burials from organic materials
• Discussion – buria! method

Cremation burials

Catalogue and analysis of artefads from graves

• Pottery
• Metal finds
• Amber
• Animal bones from graves and settlement features with human skeletal remeins
• Bone and antler artefacts
• Shells of freshwater and sea molluses as grave goods or eomponents of ornaments
• Chipped stone industry
• Lithic tools – pebbles and hammerstones

Anthropological and palaeopathological description of individuals from Mikulovice

• Anthropological and demographie analysis
• Health of individuals
• Morphological variability of non-metrie traits and morphological similarity of individuals
• Green colouring on bones as an indicator of the presenee of metal artefacts

Scientific analyses of finds

• Analyses of the elemental composition and ratios of lead isotopes in the metal artefacts from Mikuloviee
• Metallurgical investigation of tin rings from grave no. 50
• Traces of silver-plating on artefacts from grave no. 13
• Traces of metaion bone artefacts from features no. 2023 and 2412
• Chemical analyses of amber sampies
• Analyses of plant maeroremains and ehareoals
• Petrographie determination of stones
• Site environment based on malaeological analysis

Discussion and interpretation of finds

• Grave goods, furnishings and costumes
• Admixtures in grave pit fill
• Non-random groups of artefacts at the Mikulovice cemetery
• Common or exceptional? Exotics at the Mikulovice cemetery

Isotope reconstrudion of diet in a Mikulovice population sampie

• Material and methods
• Results and discussion
• Conclusion

⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr and ɓ¹⁸0 isotope signatures of EBA individuals from Mikulovice

• Introduction
• Sampling and measurements
• Methods
• Discussing results
• Condusions and summary

Absolute and relative chronology of the Mikulovice cemetery

• Absolute dating
• Relative chronology of the Mikulovice cemetery

The Mikulovice cemetery in a regional context

• Early Bronze Age finds in the Pardubice and Chrudim regions
• Settlement of the Pardubice and Chrudim regions in the Early Bronze Age

Conclusions

Early Bronze Age community on the Amber Road. The testimony of the cemetery in Mikulovice

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