Vol. 73 No. 4 (2021)
Research Article

The fascination of spirals: An Early Eneolithic hoard of decorative copper artefacts near Hrádok, West Slovakia

Mária Novotná
Katedra klasickej archeológie Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, Hornopotočná 23, SK-918 43 Trnava
Tomáš Zachar
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Karmelitergasse 1, D-60311 Frankfurt am Main
Ján Dzúrik
GEOSPEKTRUM s.r.o., Mliekárenská 10, SK-821 09 Bratislava

Published 03-01-2022

Keywords

  • hoard of copper artefacts,
  • copper-wire jewellery,
  • typology,
  • ICP-MS/ICP-OES,
  • lead isotope analysis,
  • copper provenance,
  • Early Eneolithic
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How to Cite

Novotná, M., Zachar, T., & Dzúrik, J. (2022). The fascination of spirals: An Early Eneolithic hoard of decorative copper artefacts near Hrádok, West Slovakia. Archeologické Rozhledy, 73(4), 507–532. https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2021.16

Abstract

An assemblage of few early Eneolithic hoard finds has been supplemented in 2009 by copper artefacts coming from a hoard discovered at Hrádok (Nové Mesto nad Váhom district), located in north-western Slovakia. The collection from Hrádok consists mostly of copper-wire jewellery. The presented study describes the results of typological and chronological analyses of spiral-shaped copper jewellery so far unknown in the region of Central Europe. The authors discuss the function of the artefacts, as well as their relation to the copper-wire industries of the type Malé Leváre, its variant Stollhof, and the type Hlinsko. Selected artefacts from the hoard from Hrádok were subjected to element (ICP-MS/ICP-OES) and isotope analyses. The results reveal additional information about the provenance and the type of copper present in hoard assemblages from the north-western part of the Carpathian Basin, dated to the end of the 5th Millennium BC. Contacts between the epilengyel Ludanice and Jordanów cultures are also discussed.

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