Metal – Boarder – Ritual. Hoards in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Landscape (original) (raw)

Hoards make one of the most mysterious categories of archaeological finds known from the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Doubts concerning their function should encourage researchers to use as wide information range as possible for understanding this phenomenon. However, there are still few scientific works considering their relationships with the settlement network or the cultural landscape. The presented text focuses on grasping regularities in location of spots of collecting articles made of bronze and iron, based on the results of studies over metal deposits from the Late (Urnfield culture) Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age from the South Baltic Coastland and Lake Districts.