Jantar iz keltskega opiduma Stare Hradisko na Moravskem

Abstract

One of the most important long-distance travel routes in Europe that passed through Moravia and linked the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea was the so-called "Amber Road". The products of the developed Mediterranean flowed along it to the north and were exchanged for Baltic amber. A conspicuous concentration of such amber can be found in the late La Tene period at the Stare Hradisko oppidum. The presence of amber can be explored in great detail in the roughly 10,000 m2 area of the western part of the site. Two locations have a notable concentration of amber fragments and unfinished products, and can thus be identified as workshops producing amber beads. The production process can be reconstructed from the unfinished products, rejected discards, and finished artifacts, and they can be classified into three categories according to shape. Such beads, however, have not been identified among the finds f r om the Stare Hradisko oppidum, nor are they present in the late La Tene period settlements located in the lowlands. It is thus questionable whether the workshops at Stare Hradisko would have produced such objects for local usage.