Annotation
The lecture introduces selected chapters of the archaeology of the Bohemian lands from the prehistoric period to the younger centuries. It is divided into the following blocks:
1) Older prehistoric period - basic stages of the development of human society in the Stone Age (from the hunter-gatherer populations to the emergence of agriculture and other innovations).
2) Younger prehistory - the development of complex societies in the Bronze Age and earlier Iron Age.
3) Protohistoric periods - the Latenian period, the Roman period and the period of the migration of peoples (the beginnings of the Celtic Celtic culture and its development; Europe after the turn of the century; the Roman Empire and the Barbarians; Germanic tribes).
4) Origins of the Slavs.
5) The emergence of early medieval state formations. Archaeology of Great Moravia and the early Bohemian state.
6) Transformation of the Bohemian lands in the Middle Ages.