Fascinácia špirálou: Depot medených ozdobných predmetov zo staršieho eneolitu z Hrádku, okr. Nové Mesto nad Váhom

Mária Novotná; Tomáš Zachar; Ján Dzúrik

doi:10.35686/AR.2021.16

Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2021.16

Keywords:

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

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.