Added March 21, 1998. Updated on November 28, 2001.

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Rmíz: The oldest fort with stone faced rampart and its significance in the Neolithic/Copper Age Moravian landscape.

The hilltop fort Rmíz, Czech Republic, is the oldest in a long chain of eleven similar central sites dotting the Early Neolithic/Copper Age Moravian landscape. Strategically located, the site was built in the earliest phase of the Funnel Beaker Culture's Baalberg Group (4000/3800-3600/3500 cal. BC). It was constructed in an area where several cultures overlap. The fort's earliest construction phase consists of the first stone-faced rampart in Central/Northern Europe. There are traces of copper production, including slag. Three tomb clusters with dozens of long-mounds and tumuli yielded textile fragments and evidence of changes in burial practices.

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Dr. Maximilian O. Baldia, PI

Czech/American Research Program (CARPRO)

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Inst. for the Study of Earth and Man

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Southern Methodist University

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Dr. Miroslav Smíd
Ústav archaeologické památkové péce Brno
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