Word: homolka
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Homolka, though the main objective of the expedition, was not the only place explored; less extensive excavations were carried on at four other carefully selected points, all in Czechoslovakia. At Lazovice was found a cemetery where the pagan Slavic conquerors of Bohemia of 1,000 years ago buried their dead. With their skeleton were found pots, ornaments, and iron weapons. At Tisice were unearthed the remains of eight large houses built by an iron-using people who lived approximately 2,500 years ago. At Krtenov a still more ancient cemetery of the bronze age, perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting...
...season just ended was the second the expedition has carried out. Its work during the previous year was confined chiefly to prospecting in various localities in Bohemia in order to determine where more extensive digging would be profitable, and it was then that Homolka was discovered. In a short time the expedition will sail again for its third season's work, which will extend to other parts of Czechoslovakia and also into Jugoslavia...
...hospitably treated in Central Europe. In Czechoslovakia the government has taken the keenest interest in the work, and all the departments which could help have done so to the fullest extent. The Ministry of Education and Culture, whose representatives seemed greatly impressed by their visit to the excavations at Homolka, has been interested and helpful. The work of the expedition has been carried on with the co-operation, and under the auspices of, the State Archaeological Institute of Czechoslovakia, of which Dr. Buchtela and Dr. Bohm are the directors; without their whole-hearted support nothing could have been accomplished...
Only those who are acquainted with European archaeology realize how far the inhabitants of Central Europe 4000 years ago had advanced on the road to civilization. The people of Homolka may have seen copper, but they made little use of any metal, and their tools and weapons were skilfully fashioned of stone or bone. They were also excellent pottery-makers, and the large and elaborate series of well-decorated vessels brought back by the expedition is impressive in both quantity and variety. They were also farmers and herdsmen, and no doubt looked down from their strongholds upon fields of grain...
Thought much has been found out about the residents of Homolka while they were still iving, the dead still remain a mystery. Almost the only burials so far discovered consist of a row of skeletons found on the top of the hill. These, however, proved to be the remains of invading Slavs, who had been interred there nearly 3000 years after the abandonment of the fortress. A search for the original cemetery will be one of the special objects of the work to be carried out there...