The Bronze Age on the Periphery. The hoard from Tichá and new finds from the Upper Malše Basin in Southern Bohemia

Abstract

The paper provides an overview of the first Bronze Age finds discovered in recent years in the peripheral area near the upper course of the River Malše, at the border between today’s regions of southern Bohemia and Upper Austria. Several isolated finds of metal items and two hoards from the southern Bohemian part of the upper Malše basin indicate the use of this area, seemingly uninhabited in the Bronze Age, as a possible communication corridor connecting the two above mentioned regions. For the first time, a hoard of bronze artefacts from the Late Bronze Age from Tichá is published in this paper, which significantly contributes to the knowledge and possible interpretation of prehistoric human activities in this region.

Keywords

• southern bohemia
• upper malše basin
• bronze age
• hoard
• periphery
• xrf analyses