Badenskä a řivnáčská kultura v severozápadních Cechäch : Die Badener und Rivnäc-Kultur in Nordwestböhmen

The work is based on a list of Baden culture finds and those from the ensuing Rivnac culture in the territory of northwest Bohemia. It provides an overview of the status of research, the base for finds and the natural environment of the settlement regions - the lower and central Ohre River regions, flip Hill surrounding and region under Krusvne hory/Mts.: the work follows the settlement structure of both cultures and the dating of this settlement. Baden culture is represented here to a significantly weaker extent than in central Bohemian regions and settlement is not reliably documented until the later phase of the middle (classic) stage. On the other hand, the datable Rivnac culture assemblages fall exclusively into its earlier stage, indicating that this culture existed here for a shorter period than in central Bohemia, most likely due to the arrival of the Globular Amphora culture. Perhaps this is the same reason there was no development of hillforts here as in central Bohemia. The differences between the situations in northwest and central Bohemia offer an opportunity to follow the transformations on the regional level that occurred here during the course of the six phases of the middle Eneolithic period.