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Reproduction of melting behavior for vitrified hillforts based on amphibolite, granite, and basalt lithologies [PDF]
European Bronze and Iron Age vitrified hillforts have been known since the 1700s, but archaeological interpretations regarding their function and use are still debated.
John S. McCloy +11 more
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The article discusses about reasons for the emergence of tradition to build multiple ramparts to the hillforts. The authors offer their own fundamentally new view and criticize existing concepts. The research based both archival materials and field study
Mingalev Vitalii V. +1 more
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Pierit-au avarii? O privire dinspre Europa de răsărit / Have Avars gone? A view from Eastern Europe [PDF]
he presence of the Avars in Eastern Europe, particularly in the lands between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Dnieper, has so far been a matter of concern for historians.
Florin Curta
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The cultural layers of five hillforts located in the upper parts of the Volga and Western Dvina rivers (Tver region) were studied according to the descriptions of prospecting shafts and core samples.
Alexey L. Smirnov +5 more
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Where have all the Avars gone? A view from eastern Europe
The presence of the Avars in Eastern Europe, particularly in the lands between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Dnieper, has so far been a matter of concern for historians. Archaeologists are skeptical: except for a couple of finds from Budureasca,
Florin Curta
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We studied charcoal from several types of natural soil archives, including cultural layers of archaeological sites (hillforts), surrounding forest and arable soils, and sediments in lower parts of the slopes associated with hillforts and moraine hills ...
Maxim V. Bobrovsky +5 more
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Prehistoric Stone Disks from Entrances and Cemeteries of North-Eastern Adriatic Hillforts
The paper presents a group of four, approximately 0.5m large, stone disks from entrances or cemeteries of two protohistoric hillforts of north-eastern Adriatic.
Federico Bernardini +6 more
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Bronze Age Hillforts around Rovinj on the western coast of the Istrian Peninsula and their pottery
Since the 19th century, the interest of scholars and lovers of antiquity has been focused on the prehistoric hillfort settlements, also known as gradine, castellieri or kastelliere, on the Istrian peninsula. Several hundred of these fortified settlements,
Anja Hellmuth Kramberger +2 more
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[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The Czech landscape and its archaeological resources include the most varied types of prehistoric or early medieval hillforts.
Roman Křivánek
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The paper examines the history of the archaeological study of two hillforts located near Rechki village in Vileyka District of Minsk Oblast. Both sites are located on natural hills and feature a complex fortification system.
Palina S. Kurlovich +2 more
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