@article{Novotná_Zachar_Dzúrik_2022, title={The fascination of spirals: An Early Eneolithic hoard of decorative copper artefacts near Hrádok, West Slovakia}, volume={73}, url={https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/15}, DOI={10.35686/AR.2021.16}, abstractNote={<p>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.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Archeologické rozhledy}, author={Novotná, Mária and Zachar, Tomáš and Dzúrik, Ján}, year={2022}, month={Jan.}, pages={507–532} }