Archaeology paints daily life in La Tène Bohemia as textured and mobile: farmers cultivated cereal fields and orchards between wooded hills, smiths forged iron and bronze into tools and status items, and women and men arranged their lives around extended family units recorded in cemeteries. Grave assemblages recovered at Radosevice and Prague‑Jinonice include fibulae, knives, pottery and occasional weapons — small dramas cast in metal and clay that speak to gendered roles, craft specialization, and personal display.
Settlement evidence from the region shows timber buildings, storage pits and workshops; archaeobotanical remains indicate a mixed economy of crops and domestic animals. Archaeological data indicates long-distance contacts too: imported goods and shared decorative motifs reveal river and overland links to the Rhine, Danube and beyond. Seasonal mobility, craft itinerancy, and the exchange of marriage partners likely produced the genetic and cultural mosaics visible in the graves.
Despite the theatrical quality of La Tène art, most lives were shaped by local concerns: village networks, agricultural cycles, and the care of kin. The cemeteries provide the best-preserved traces of those lives and now serve as anchors to which aDNA can attach individual stories.
