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Reproduction of melting behavior for vitrified hillforts based on amphibolite, granite, and basalt lithologies [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
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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Fortification of Multi-Shaft Hillforts in the Perm Urals During the Migration Period: theory and interpretations

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2021
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]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Layer of the Iron Age and Early Middle Ages Hillforts in the River-Heads of the Volga And Western Dvina (Runa-Zaborovka, Zaborovka-Likhusha, Voroshilovo, Verkhmarevo Archaeological Complex)

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Where have all the Avars gone? A view from eastern Europe

open access: yesПриноси към българската археология, 2022
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Dynamics of Diversity of Woody Species Taxa under Human Impact in the Upper Volga Region (NW Russia) According to Pedoanthracological Data

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Prehistoric Stone Disks from Entrances and Cemeteries of North-Eastern Adriatic Hillforts

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2022
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

open access: yesIpoTESI di Preistoria, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Application of Non-Destructive Geophysical Measurements for Mapping and Surveying the Hillforts in the Czech Republic

open access: yesArchaeologia Lituana, 2018
[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
doaj   +1 more source

Hillforts Near Rechki Village in Vileyka District of Minsk Oblast: study history and current state of the sites

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

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