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The focus of this bachelor thesis is focused on the settlement of Karlovarsko during the later Middle Ages (13.-15. century). The main goal was to evaluate and analyse pottery collections found at the castle Kostelní Horka (district Karlovy Vary) and at the castle Hartenberg (district Sokolov), and capture the progression of settlement of local landscape based on these findings. The study of archeological and other sources, which include History, Toponomasty and reconstruction of natural conditions, is an important part of this work, while the Art History proved useful as well. Results of this thesis generated an elaborate analysis of pottery groups, which were then separated to pottery sequence and its phases. These data complement the outline of local archeological chronology. Archeological digsites from various social enviroments, which bore findings with a particular degree of information value, were presented in order to illustrate a more complete image of the issue at hand. Furthermore the fundamental objective of this work was to understand the transformation of settlement and the process of colonization. Keywords: West Bohemia; Karlovy Vary; settlement; medieval archaeology; settlement history; castles and fortified manors; pottery; Middle Ages; 1200-1500 |
