Proto-Eneolithic causewayed enclosure in Trubín, central Bohemia

Abstract

One of the phenomena linking the broad area from the Atlantic to central Europe for several centuries around the year 4000 BC is various forms of causewayed enclosures, which are multiply interrupted. Bohemia forms the eastern periphery of their expansion, though few works have been published on this topic to date. The subject of the submitted article is the presentation of one of these causewayed enclosures found in the town of Trubín in the Beroun district. In addition to a detailed evaluation of the find situation and all of the obtained sources, the work provides the first set of radiocarbon dates and the relevant analyses from other Bohemian causewayed enclosures. In connection with them, the article establishes their chronological position, cultural affiliation, the origin of the phenomenon in Bohemia and, last but not least, the standing of the Trubín enclosures in their framework.