VČASNOSLOVANSKÝ SÍDLISKOVÝ OBJEKT ZO ŽDANE

Excavation works to place gas pipelines were performed between the village Ždaňa and Skároš. During the works in the position of Vyšné pole object 1 was disrupted – an earth-house from which southern part of a potentially oval shape and a disrupted heating equipment were revealed. A shard material, fragments of grindstone, daub and animal bones were obtained from the filling. The ceramics from Ždaňa has features which rank it to the Prague type. The production technology of modelling containers was in essence identical with the findings in other sites featuring the occurrence of the Prague type ceramics of an archaic form and falling, like in Ždaňa, to the second third of the 6th century. In a more detailed treatise on the earliest Slavonic settlement in eastern Slovakia as a part of the upper Tisza River basin we have pointed to the necessity of resolving certain substantial problems (genesis, theory of the autochthonous origin, time and direction of the arrival of Slavs in the northern part of the Carpathian Valley), or partial questions of economic and spiritual life of the newly-arrived Slavonic population. The exploration of early Slavonic objects and finds, so far only in the Košická kotlina (Ždaňa, Nižná Myšľa), has shown that also eastern Slovakia took part in the processes of Slavs´ settling down in the northern part of the Carpathian Valley after the year 470, though still before the arrival of the Avars.