Anlass der Klement/Oberleiserberg-Tagung war ursprünglich das Keramik-Seminar „Die späteste latènezeitliche Keramik im Mitteldonauraum und ihre Verbindungen den Randgebieten“, welches am 16. Mai 2011 in Oberleis-Klement im Rahmen des FWF-Projekts „Die keltische Höhensiedlung am Oberleiserberg“ (FWF Projekt-P22615-G21) stattfand. Die Organisation dieses war dank der finanziellen Unterstützung seitens (damaligen) Prähistorischen Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften möglich. Treffen war keine typische Konferenz, sondern eine an Originalfunden. Die Teilnehmer hatten Gelegenheit, sowohl die keramischen Siedlungsfunde den eigenen Forschungen zu präsentieren als auch sich den Funden von anderen Fundstellen vertraut zu machen. Am Seminar nahmen 39 Forscher aus sechs Ländern nämlich aus Österreich, der...

Due to the specific geography of today’s Slovenia its influences on the settlement dynamics and population movements in the middle of the 4^thcentury BC, some newcomers arrived in the area of eastern Slovenia they were a part of the Celtic communities of central European origin. Their material culture, exhibiting influences from the east and the west, blended with the local traditions to create a mosaic of cultural groups. We assume that the eastern and central part of Slovenia became more or less Celticised, while in the western part of Slovenia (Inner Carniola, the Karst region and the So è...

Our present understanding of the development of the La Tène culture in northern Croatia is mostly based the sites and finds from eastern Slavonia, which that this area formed part of the distribution area central European legacy of the Late La Tène culture. addition to the Late La Tène finds collected since of the 19^thcentury,¹ a series of trial and rescue were carried out in the 1970s and 1980s on prehistoric settlements along the river Bosut Vinkovci region (Orolik, Privlaka, Stari Mikanovci, Brijeg), as well as in Osijek, where the latest layers dated to the Late Iron Age (Fig....

Cast fibulae of the “pseudo-Middle La Tène” construction are a characteristic part of attire in the western Carpathian Basin in the Late La Tène period. Many finds are known from the area of today’s Slovenia, Austria and western Hungary, which have been classified as several different types based on their morphological characteristics.¹ Generally, the construction of all these fibulae, regardless of the type, mimics Middle La Tène forms with the bow and the inverted foot cast together to form the closed frame of triangular or trapezoidal shape. A knob, or “false collar” (Pseudofußklammer), is places at the end of the...

The cemetery of Golek pri Vinici in the Kolpa ValleyThe first illustrations of fibulae of the Zvonimirovo (Fig. 1) appeared in the auction catalogue of the Mecklenburg collection, which was printed in New York in It is a small selection of fibulae which had come to in graves of a very large flat grave cemetery containing nearly 350 burials. The cemetery had been excavated the Duchess of Mecklenburg in 1906 and 1907 at a named Stražni dol in the vicinity of the village Golek pri Vinici in Bela krajina.² Emil Vogt (of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich), who...

The La Tène culture hilltop settlement on the Oberleiserberg in Lower Austria has a special significance for subject addressed in this volume of proceedings from conference held at Klement. The choice of this situated on the western slopes of the Oberleiserberg (“Oberleis-Hill”; Fig. 1), had not been a random Long-term archaeological excavation and regular surveys of the site on the Oberleiserberg have produced an exceptionally rich archaeological assemblage occupation by the people of the La Tène The settlement has been presented in the literature a general manner on several occasions.¹ Another theme addressed in the publications was that of cross-regional...

Coinage is of particular relevance for our understanding of the Celtic communities of the Late La Tène period in central Europe. Its distribution makes it possible to establish relatively reliably what long-distance contacts existed between central places and the wider world. In this contribution we aim to document the numismatic evidence for contacts in the territory of what nowadays is the Czech Republic, that is, between the Boii and the Taurisci and Norici. Our data consist of coin finds which show a strong connection between the regions under study.

The area occupied by the Celtic tribe of the Taurisci lies...

Small rings made of bronze, decorated on the with variously spaced knob-like projections in relief, known in the literature asKnotenringe(“knot rings”). They are generally considered to be characteristic of Late La Tène or oppida period. In Joseph Déchelette’s opinion they are one of the artefacts that symbolise unitary character of the La Tène culture over its range, from Gaul to the Carpathian Basin; he considered them one of the type-fossils of the phase that he as La Tène III.¹ This view was generally accepted it commonly appears in the literature of the following decades. The knots on the...

The latest phase of the Late La Tène period in the of present-day southwestern Slovakia has so far remained quite obscure. The so-called Celto-Dacian occupation is assumed to have taken place in the region, the defeat of the Boii (?). The inhabitants of is now southwestern Slovakia were the descendants the indigenous Celtic population but probably also the Dacians (?) who had remained there in the of the expansion and wars of the second half of the century BC under King Burebista. Unfortunately are no finds from this period and horizon recorded at oppidum of Bratislava or from its vicinity,...

Large-scale excavations were undertaken in spring 2005 advance of development of the Polish-Ukrainian crossing at Hrebenne in the district of Tomaszów Lubelski. Site 18, a multiperiod settlement with occupation from the Neolithic to the Migration period, included of a large settlement of the earlier pre-Roman Age.¹ We shall leave aside whether the assemblages found there should be attributed to the so-called “Czerniczyn group” or whether they should be ascribed to the Jastorf culture² and concentrate instead on the interesting find of a silver coin. Contradictions in the sparse excavation records make it impossible to identify exactly which feature the coin...

Since its discovery in 1846 the Celtic treasure of (Fig. 1) – now Miskolc Bükkszentlászló, County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén¹ – has been split into several for bureaucratic reasons. Although the coins been mentioned or published in many studies and there has so far not been a critical study and analysis the whole assemblage, despite it being the largest find the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and even its coins and gold artefacts are of great importance to La Tène research in the Carpathian Basin.

The published literature contains contradictory and errors concerning the circumstances of although Gabriel Seidl, keeper of the Royal Imperial Cabinet of Coins...

bers have stayed intact in the wet conditions at Liptovská Mara in northern Slovakia.² Remains of very complex constructions came to light in Dürrnberg-Ramsautal,³ where Horizons 2b, 3a and 3b can be related to La Tène B2/C1. The most important of all surviving remains is Building 1-01 at Roseldorf, Lower Austria, where the lower part of a wooden plank wall was preserved in situ. Sunken-featured buildings are often encountered at Iron-Age sites, but they also appear in nearly all archaeological periods. Although they seem to have had a very simple structure, understanding their remains is far from easy. The nature...

Over the last few years a number of new finds have drawn attention to the importance of the oppidum Bratislava’s Castle Hill.¹ The spectacular discovery Roman masonry remains of the 1^stcentury BC has so not been matched north of the Danube. The significance of the oppidum in Bratislava is also owed to its prime location. It lies on the eastern edge of the Bratislava Gap, also known as the Devín Gap, Hainburg Gap or Hungarian Gap (Porta Hungarica): this is where the Danube leaves the Carpathians to enter the Carpathian Basin. Bratislava’s Castle Hill constitutes the easternmost outlier of...

Preservation Institute of Bratislava.² The last major building works in the Bratislava Castle precinct date back to between 1956 and 1968.

The building works of 2008–2010 concentrated on the Castle palace itself. In place of the amphitheatre that stood in the northern part of the castle precinct, a Baroque garden with a riding school, which had been abandoned after the great fire of 1811, were to be reconstructed. A carpark (Zámocká entrance) was to be erected below the garden. This development was the occasion for excavations in the area Extensive development and restoration work 2008–2010 in the area...

The reorganisation of the tribal landscape in the western and central EuropeanBarbaricum, which had been conquered by Rome through military force or political coercion, became a routine measure for consolidating power over these territories surely earlier than the dying days of the Roman Republic. The history of Caesar’s Gallic Wars and of the Augustan offensives against the Germanic tribes is indicative of this strategy, sometimes carried out with (to modern eyes) drastic measures, inherent to the Roman expansion policy. Even after the end of the Gallic Wars Rome intervened in a multitude of ways in the political and social...