An attempt to (re)construct a house of Aunjetitz culture: How and with which tools the house can have been built
Abstract
The article deals with the possibilities and limits of prehistorical houses (re)construction using two Aunjetitz culture houses as examples: no 10 house from Postoloprty in Bohemia and no 2 cottage from Velešovice in Moravia. The remains of the two settlement objects are analysed and other sources of information are used to supplement them: archaeological researches, house models and ethnography.
Consequently, a hypothetical form of the house is constructed. The aim is to outline the current state of our knowledge of Aunjetitz culture houses and to present the tools possibly used for their building.
General ideas on the subject are concretized at the two (re)constructions, that nevertheless represent only one of the possibilities how to approach the given set of data without ambition to present definitive idea. Use of the tools is also, though the typology is precisely done, mostly not clear.
These ambiguities show how our idea of the past is partial and some of the questions are still to be answered.