In proposed study the author deals with the natural environment and the structure of settlements in the area of upper basin of river Žitava. Geographical informational systems (GIS) and statistic methods have greatly contributed to the study of landscape and settlements. Utilization of GIS in analyses lies in the graphic representation of an individual indicator on separate layers, which are being overlapped and combined. The time frame, analysed in this paper, includes the Neolithic period up to the early historic age and it indicates also on the development during the early Middle Age. The analysis is focused on the spatial context, landscape properties at the site of settlements, relations with surrounding environment and on the settlement structure. The objective was to review the settlements variability in individual periods of time according to the measured values, to evaluate the settlement in relation to the natural environment and landscape and the settlement structure within separate periods of time.
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Choosing section on the micro-region of the stream basin of Jarč for analysis was motivated with the variability of natural environment elements and density of archaeological sources. Hydrologic criterion of the stream Jarč was the basic element in defining the area. The work process consisted of assembly, supplementations and clarification of available archaeological and geographical information on the micro-region. Subsequent digitizing, vectorization and data analysis was carried out in a GIS environment. The output of the predictive model is a map of potential occurrence of archaeological sites in each area. The predictive model indicates that inhabitants used the same landscape features from the Neolithic up to the Early Middle Ages. Some differences were observed in burial places in the Roman Period centralized on locations with low potential. Probably the other factors than the natural environment played an important role in establishing cemeteries (social, religious, etc.) However, these are hardly recognizable.
The burials within a settlement area are a common phenomenon since the Neolithic, and they appear practically throughout the whole Prehistory. Until these days, no extramural cemeteries of the Ludanice group have been discovered; most burials comprise of human skeletons, or rather their parts, buried in separate graves or in settlement pits within the area of the settlement. Separate graves belong to individuals buried according to a certain rite, lying in crouched position either on the right or the left side, body orientations vary. In addition, these graves are not as richly equipped as those of contemporary Tiszapolgár or Bodrogkeresztúr cultures in the Tisa basin. The Ludanice group used to bury their dead in the settlement pits as well as in graves, both being considered a part of the Ludanice group burial rite. As regards the burials in the pits, human remains were buried either according to the burial rite or casually. As indicated by positions of the skeletons (on the back or on the front), absence of burial equipment, and perimortem and lethal injuries. No burial ceremony was probably performed in case of casually buried individuals.
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The surface exploration on the upper stream of the Širočina was carried out as part of the project entitled Centre for the Research into the Oldest History of the Middle Danube River Basin. Its first aim was to verify, or to refine the localisation of the registered discovery sites, and try to search for other ones in the cadastral territories of individual villages. A complex survey of settlements in the area of the watercourse of the Širočina and its tributaries will serve as a basis for the topography of this territory. New sites were surveyed through GPS directly in the terrain, projected to a map and included into overall database of archaeological sources. With regard to the fact that the project as well as the surface prospection itself was limited by time, we explored just the Širočina´s upper stream. A detailed exploration, carried out as part of the project, contributed to the identification of settlement agglomeration in the area of the confluence of the Širočina and the Suchý potok. At the same time, new and so far unregistered sites were discovered (no. 29 – 42), which, together with known discovery sites, complement an overall picture of settlement in the upper stream of the Širočina from prehistory up to the Middle Ages. The explored area belongs to the whole of the Požitavská pahorkatina and thus represents a small part of the territory included in the project. The detailed surface explorations of these smaller units significantly contribute to the composition of an overall mosaic and gradual complementation of an overall picture of the settlement of Slovak highlands during prehistory and middle Ages.
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