The set contains six episodes of a popularization series published between 2021 and 2022 in a mag... more The set contains six episodes of a popularization series published between 2021 and 2022 in a magazine dedicated to the region of the Western Ore Mountains. The individual episodes explore the history of vanished settlements, industrial heritage, the archaeology of the Dark Modernities as well as the present and future of this unique 20th century archaeological site.
This contribution presents results yielded so far by research a ctivities of the Archaeological I... more This contribution presents results yielded so far by research a ctivities of the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, and a bachelor’s degree thesis started in 2014 at the Department of History of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem in the form of a case study devoted to the decline and archaeologization of the Sauersack/Rolava mining plant (Sokolov district). The plant was established in order to mine and smelt tin ores, as part of the Third Reich military endeavours. Forced labour in the mine was performed by prisoners of war of many European nationalities. After 1945 the mining and smelting activities were not resumed and in February 1946 the Czechoslovak government decided to have the mining equipment dismantled and to close the mine down. In summer 1947, the complex of the mining plant and the adjacent POW camp started to turn into an archaeological site.
The aim of this volume will be to present three case studies, which are related to the range of t... more The aim of this volume will be to present three case studies, which are related to the range of topics for which the term the archaeology of modernity is gradually coming into use. These are three texts, two of which are supplemented and modified Czech versions of English-language studies published in 2019 and 2021 in high-impact foreign journals, while the last of them is the initial report on rescue archaeological research carried out in the spring of 2021, which aroused an extraordinary Czech and international media response. The purpose of the publication of such an anthology, conceived in this way and yet small in scope but with more and more topical texts, is to make these initial results of the archaeological study of modern society within the Institute of Archaeology of the CAS in Prague available to a wider circle of Czech readers. The ambition of the authors and the publisher is to fulfil the motto of the Strategy AV 21 Top research in the public interest; The publication is published within the program Resilient Society, resolved by a consortium of mainly social science institutes of the CAS in 2021–2025. The genre of archaeological etude was discovered by Zdeněk Smetánka (1931–2017), a master of light, inspirational and refreshing writing on key as well as seemingly marginal topics in historical archaeology. At the same time, this is only one of the many merits of this – today, unfortunately, only legendary – figure of Prague’s Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and later of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Z. Smetánek, especially with his generational companion Miroslav Richter (1932–2011), became a co-author of the concept of Czech medieval archaeology, which has been valid for six decades so far. The wish of the authorial team is to dedicate this volume to the memory of Z. Smetánka in the year of what would have been his 90th jubilee.
The set contains six episodes of a popularization series published between 2021 and 2022 in a mag... more The set contains six episodes of a popularization series published between 2021 and 2022 in a magazine dedicated to the region of the Western Ore Mountains. The individual episodes explore the history of vanished settlements, industrial heritage, the archaeology of the Dark Modernities as well as the present and future of this unique 20th century archaeological site.
This contribution presents results yielded so far by research a ctivities of the Archaeological I... more This contribution presents results yielded so far by research a ctivities of the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, and a bachelor’s degree thesis started in 2014 at the Department of History of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem in the form of a case study devoted to the decline and archaeologization of the Sauersack/Rolava mining plant (Sokolov district). The plant was established in order to mine and smelt tin ores, as part of the Third Reich military endeavours. Forced labour in the mine was performed by prisoners of war of many European nationalities. After 1945 the mining and smelting activities were not resumed and in February 1946 the Czechoslovak government decided to have the mining equipment dismantled and to close the mine down. In summer 1947, the complex of the mining plant and the adjacent POW camp started to turn into an archaeological site.
The aim of this volume will be to present three case studies, which are related to the range of t... more The aim of this volume will be to present three case studies, which are related to the range of topics for which the term the archaeology of modernity is gradually coming into use. These are three texts, two of which are supplemented and modified Czech versions of English-language studies published in 2019 and 2021 in high-impact foreign journals, while the last of them is the initial report on rescue archaeological research carried out in the spring of 2021, which aroused an extraordinary Czech and international media response. The purpose of the publication of such an anthology, conceived in this way and yet small in scope but with more and more topical texts, is to make these initial results of the archaeological study of modern society within the Institute of Archaeology of the CAS in Prague available to a wider circle of Czech readers. The ambition of the authors and the publisher is to fulfil the motto of the Strategy AV 21 Top research in the public interest; The publication is published within the program Resilient Society, resolved by a consortium of mainly social science institutes of the CAS in 2021–2025. The genre of archaeological etude was discovered by Zdeněk Smetánka (1931–2017), a master of light, inspirational and refreshing writing on key as well as seemingly marginal topics in historical archaeology. At the same time, this is only one of the many merits of this – today, unfortunately, only legendary – figure of Prague’s Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and later of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Z. Smetánek, especially with his generational companion Miroslav Richter (1932–2011), became a co-author of the concept of Czech medieval archaeology, which has been valid for six decades so far. The wish of the authorial team is to dedicate this volume to the memory of Z. Smetánka in the year of what would have been his 90th jubilee.
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The genre of archaeological etude was discovered by Zdeněk Smetánka (1931–2017), a master of light, inspirational and refreshing writing on key as well as seemingly marginal topics in historical archaeology. At the same time, this is only one of the many merits of this – today, unfortunately, only legendary – figure of Prague’s Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and later of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Z. Smetánek, especially with his generational companion Miroslav Richter (1932–2011), became a co-author of the concept of Czech medieval archaeology, which has been valid for six decades so far. The wish of the authorial team is to dedicate this volume to the memory of Z. Smetánka in the year of what would have been his 90th jubilee.
The genre of archaeological etude was discovered by Zdeněk Smetánka (1931–2017), a master of light, inspirational and refreshing writing on key as well as seemingly marginal topics in historical archaeology. At the same time, this is only one of the many merits of this – today, unfortunately, only legendary – figure of Prague’s Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and later of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Z. Smetánek, especially with his generational companion Miroslav Richter (1932–2011), became a co-author of the concept of Czech medieval archaeology, which has been valid for six decades so far. The wish of the authorial team is to dedicate this volume to the memory of Z. Smetánka in the year of what would have been his 90th jubilee.