In Slovakia there are altogether 261 fragments of Roman glass vessels familiar to the scientific audience (i.e. published), which, however, due to the nature of this material do not necessarily have to refer to the real number of Roman vessels. They come only from the southwest and east Slovakia and they are not to be found in the area of Púchov culture (i.e. the middle and north Slovakia). The first matter discussed in this paper is whether Roman glass was considered a luxury article by the ancient inhabitants of the territory of modern Slovakia. Probably it was, but only in the 1st and at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, when a mass production of the blow glass begun and its prize therefore in Roman Empire and elsewhere begun to fall. Another matter discussed is the question of its origin. It was possible to specify the vessels as products of Italian, Syrian, Rhineland’s, but above all Pannonian manufacturers (i.e. Aquincum, Carnuntum, Arrabona, Brigetio or Gorsium). Typologically there are three kinds of the vessels: drinking service, table set and cosmetics’ vials. There is no archaeological evidence of glass store jars or transport containers. Another interesting phenomenon compared to use in Roman Empire is the fact that none of the glass vessel found in Slovakia was used as an urn for burial purposes and there are no windows glass present (maybe just between the unpublished Materials from Cífer-Pác).
Around 5600-5500 cal BC first farmers appeared at the North European Lowland initiating ca 2.000 years lasting process of neolithisation of this area. A unique feature of Dabki settlement is the presence of several horizons of imports in the Late Mesolithic and early FBC context, mainly pottery vessels. These imports point toward an important role of that place in the exchange system between Mesolithic groups inhabited Central European Lowland and Neolithic people. Beside local hunters-gatherers, groups of Linear Band Pottery, Stroke Band Pottery, Ertebolle, Brzesc Kujawski Group, Funnel Beaker and finally Bodrogkeresztúr cultures were engaged in these contacts. Till 2009 on site 9 at Dabki there were discovered 8 potsherds of the Bodrogkeresztúr culture. Ornamentation, morphology, and technology of the fragments are typical for the pottery of the culture in question. We can synchronize the discussed imports with the earliest Funnel Beaker settlement stage in Dabki, i.e. with years 4100/4000 cal BC.
The study is focused on evaluation of archaeological finds from the necropolis dated to the Roman period at Velatice (distr. of Brno-venkov) obtained within the years 1923 – 2000. Concerning the necropolis, only grave units comprising artefacts of chronological information value have been published up to now. At the burial ground, forty nine graves were discovered; forty seven of them were cremation burials and two inhumation ones. The dead were buried here within the time of the early to the late Roman periods. Most of the cremation burials are of the late to the final Roman period. The study includes all the archaeological and anthropological materials from the necropolis that we succeeded to obtain from deposits of various institutions and private collections until 2009. The analysis of the archaeological finds was complicated by their finding situations and lack of quality documentation in majority of grave units. The cremation burials that were excavated more recently were situated within the distance of 2 to 5 m; but there is no information on the arrangement of all graves at the burial site, therefore the space relations among the graves cannot be studied. Anthropological analysis of bone remains brought no sex determination of the deceased caused by lack of representative samples. The richest grave excavated at the site was the grave 9, which included artefacts of both the Germanic and Roman provenience. Sex of the buried individual cannot be determined thoroughly. The catalogue comprises of register of graves and finds including those from disturbed grave units as well as vessels without finding situations.
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