Histoire tchécoslovaque par ordre chronologique
Czechoslovak History in Chronological Order

Author(s): Jan Filip
Subject(s): History
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Czechoslovak History ;
Summary/Abstract: Prehistoric studies concerning the territory of Czechoslovakia have passed through several stages of evolution over the last quarter of a century. They necessarily depended on the activity with which research was carried out in the excavation sites and which had a direct influence on literary production. Even before the Second World War, the archaeological institutes as well as the large museums had been oriented towards some systematic explorations, but during the war and the occupation, the activity of all Czech university institutes was suspended and the explorations of the institutes of archeology and museums significantly restricted. It was only after the restoration of state independence in 1945 that prehistoric studies were able to take on a new impetus, assured in a stable manner by the creation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, which provided the institutes with the means necessary for carrying out explorations in the field as well as for their regular publication activity. At the present time, the main centers of archaeological work are the two Institutes of Archeology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, that of Prague and that of Brno, as well as the Institute of Archeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra. They all have at their disposal a large number of scientific workers, specialist technicians, laboratories and modern means of exploration. In addition to these bodies, there are others: the university institutes of prehistory in Prague, Brno and Bratislava, the Slavic institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the major central museums, in particular the National Museum in Prague, the Moravě Museum in Brno, the Slovak Museum in Bratislava, finally some of the regional museums with their archaeological sections.

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