Added February 8, 1999. Updated May 31, 2001.

The Czech-American Research Program

(CARPRO)

Index of Figures

Rmíz Aerial Photographs

Rmiz viewed form the north
Rmiz viewed form the west
Rmiz south slope

Rmíz Environment and Features

Central European Climatic Curve

Rmiz_10-97_South_Slope_bottom.jpg
Rmiz_10-97_South_Slope_Smid_Dump.jpg
Rmiz_9-97_South-East_Slope.jpg
Rmiz_wall2_ditch_eastside10-97wide-angle-Smid.jpg
Rmiz_wall2_ditch_eastside10-97-Smid.jpg

Trenches and Profiles

TestTrenches1995.JPG: Map of test trenches and test pits (After Smíd 1995 Fig. 3 with addition of new excavations since 1998)
RmizWall.gif: Profile of Trench 1/89 showing the oldest stone wall (Rampart III) in Central and North Europe (Zone III, Smíd 1994 Fig. 4, 1995 Fig. 5)
Trench1-88Smid95.jpg: Profile of Trench 1/88 with Late Bronze Age Rampart IV (Zone IV) and wooden structure (Smíd 1995 Fig. 7)

Pottery from Rmíz Zone III

RmizPotSmid.jpg: Photo of Smíd with amphora from oldest layer in the vicinity of the stone wall (Photo by M. Baldia June 1998. Location: Olomouc Museum's Archive. Drawings in Smíd 1994 Fig. 5, 4; 1995 Fig. 24, 1).
RmizPotCBsHand.jpg: Close-up of above amphora (Photo by M. Baldia June 1998. Location at Olomouc Museum's Archive).

Area 1/Test Unit 1 1998-1999

Area 1/TU1 is located in Zone III, just inside the oldest known stone wall

TU1_6-98_north-profile.jpg
TU1_6-98_North-Profile_w_dates-features.JPG
Rmiz_TU1_1998_a_profil.htm

Area 1 is the 1999 re-excavation and expansion of TU1 (see TestTrenches1995.JPG for location)

Area1RmizSprofileTitle99-10-09No03-75dpi.jpg

Area1RmizSprofiles99-10-09No06-75dpi.jpg

Area1RmizEprofiles99-10-09No21-14-25-75dpi.jpg

Area1RmizFeatures99-10-09No19-29-75dpi.jpg

Area1RmizFeatures99-10-09No26-17-75dpi.jpg

Area1RmizWprofiles99-10-09No11-24-32-75dpi.jpg

Level 1

TU1_L1_6-98_Sherds&Dub_inside.jpg
TU1_L1_6-98_Sherds&Dub_outside.jpg

TU1_L1_6-98_Fauna_teeth14-2.jpg
TU1_L1_6-98_Fauna_teeth16-2.jpg

Level 2

Level 3

Area 2/1999

Area 2 is located in Zone III: Top of Rampart III-1 and just inside (see TestTrenches1995.JPG for location)

South profile of excavation pit with traces of two wooden beams.

Area 3/1999

Area 3 is located in Zone III, just inside the oldest known stone wall (see TestTrenches1995.JPG for location)

Tentative link to latest animated pictures and graphics

Area 4/2000

Under Consruction

Kremela I (Funnel Beaker Culture Burial Mound Cluster)

Kremela1.gif Plan of Kremela I burial mounds (after Smid).
Kremela1Mound2a.jpg Picture of Kremela I burial mounds with Mound 2 in the foreground (Photo Smid 1997).
RmizCloth1.jpg: The oldest woven linen cloth from in Central and North Europe from Mound 2 (Photo Baldia 1998).
RmizFlaxSAMbw.jpg: Microscopic view of oldest woven linen cloth in Central and North Europe, showing the flax fibers (K. Jakes 1999).

Ludérov, Náme^vs^vt’ na Hahané, (Funnel Beaker Culture Burial Mound Cluster)

Excavation of Mound 1, Grave 3: Excavation of cremation urn with ground stone axe by a Student from the College of DuPage under the direction of Dr. Miroslav Šmíd.

Lengel Pottery

Moravian Painted Ware: Examples of Moravian Painted Ware, Phases I a – IIb. (Source: Podborský et al. 1993)[1]
Graphite-slipped, burnished Moravian Painted Ware from Strelic-Sklepa by Znojmo (Source: Book cover of Podborský et al. 1993).

Flint Sources

Hornstein quarry: Stránska scála, by Brno was first used in the Paleolithic and exhausted during the early TRB Baalberge period. It was also used as clay quarry during parts of the later TRB.

Please send comments or questions to Max.Baldia.

[1] Podborský, Vladimír, et al., 1993, Pravěké Dějiny Moravy. Vlastivěda Moravská Země a Lid, Nová Řada 3. Muzejní a vlastivědna společnost, Brno.