Podrobný výpis o publikaci

During the interdisciplinary training of students from the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy andScience, Silesian University in Opava in August 2018, among other things, a probe archaeological excavation wasconducted in the settlement of Linear Pottery culture at Staré Město near Moravská Třebová (loc. 1) and a surveyof lithic raw material sources in the environs was carried out. Relatively close to the settlement (2.5 km as thecrow flies), a small natural occurrence of graphite rocks was discovered east of the area of the agriculturalcompany I. MTZ, Ltd. on the outskirts of Moravská Třebová. Graphite appears to be admixed in about a quarterof the ceramics from the Neolithic settlement and fragments of graphite rocks were found during its surfacesurvey as well. Graphite pottery is known also from other localities in the cadastral area of Staré Město village(loc. 4) (the La Téne period) and from the Staré Město built-up area (the end of the 12th–13thcentury AD). Thebasis for our study of the issue in a broader context was represented by two stages of surface survey at thementioned and other localities in the surroundings and petrographic analysis of 17 samples of graphite rocks andgraphite ceramics from older and new findings from the region of Moravská Třebová. As the most importantresults of the analyses can be considered the indications for the (at least regional) distribution of graphite vesselsin the period of Linear Pottery culture and for existence of probably only one pottery workshop supplying all themicroregion of StaréMěsto and its surroundings at the turn of the Early and High Middle Ages.