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Posted on 10/05/2026 6:51:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The fortified hilltop settlement of Spišský Štvrtok is one of the most significant sites of the earlier prehistory of central Europe. It dates to the transitional period between the Early and the Middle Bronze Age with a cultural affiliation to the Otomani-Füzesabony culture, c. 1700–1500 b.c. The village of Spišský Štvrtok (located in an area called Spišská Nová Ves, which is also a town) is situated on an oblong hill adjacent to a valley in the undulated country of eastern Slovakia at Myšia Hôrka in the Carpathian Basin. The hill rises very steeply on the western side and more gradually on the east, in modern times with a growth of forest. The fortification on the summit, about 625 meters above sea level, comprises about 6,600 square meters with thirty-nine houses and a cult place in addition to a complex system of ramparts, bastions, and ditches. There are two occupation phases: the end phase of the Early Bronze Age and the first phase of the Middle Bronze Age...
The spearhead, the sword, the four-spoked wheel, the chariot, and horse management are among these innovations. The first swords appeared in the Carpathian Basin in eastern Hungary and Romania around 1600 b.c. -- only one hundred years after the appearance of the bronze spearhead in roughly the same region. Such quality metalwork was in high demand all over central and northern Europe at this time. Exotica such as amber beads were traded in from the north and people of the Otomani-Füzesabony culture made contacts with stratified palace-based societies in early Mycenaean Greece.
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(Nice pics, kinda click-bait-y YT channel)Europe's Most Controversial Bronze Age Site...probably, anyway | 21:31
The Historian's Craft | 136K subscribers | 29,858 views | October 2, 2026
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Great article. Thanks, SunkenCiv!
In need of vowels for sure.
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Seems like it would be a great brnz g site to visit during a European vacation.
My pleasure!
[Personally I didn’t like her in “Carrie”. Wait, what?]
Same thing occurred to me.
My regular lawn care guy hasn’t returned my calls.
What to do? Mowing my own grass is not an option.
It grows quietly, though. What makes noise is my wife
My first thought at the headline was, “She was great in Coal Miner’s Daughter.” You beat me to it.
Check around for goats for hire. They also eat poison ivy like it’s candy.
My wife once had our farmer neighbor Edsel bring a herd of about 10 goats over here to clean out our woods and creek banks. One disappeared, never to be seen again.
A little local color, that.
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“Seems like it would be a great Bronze Age site to visit during a European vacation.”
You mind reader, you! We just did the 20 days in the Rheinland, Bavaria, Austria and Tirolian Alps. SO much more to see, do, and learn!
Nice! Sounds like fun!
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