Landscape Transformed: Archaeological, Historical and Environmental Dating of the Early Modern Field System in Valštejn, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F20%3AN0000122" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/20:N0000122 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-sitnerova-3D.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-sitnerova-3D.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2020.1.7" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2020.1.7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Landscape Transformed: Archaeological, Historical and Environmental Dating of the Early Modern Field System in Valštejn, Czech Republic

Original language description

The historical field system of Valštejn represents one of the most extensive historical landscape complexes in the Czech Republic. Archaeological excavation of a former agricultural terrace (now a meadow) revealed the elaborate construction of a wall and stone foundation under the former arable field. This construction probably served for drainage and for soil protection. Archaeobotanical sampling facilitated the use of the charred plant material for radiocarbon dating of the soil profile, supported by the measurement of radionuclides 210Pb and 137Cs activity in order to estimate the age and stratigraphic integrity of the soil. An interesting record was obtained by archaeobotanical analyses of the lowermost layer, where wood charcoal and needles of fir (Abies alba) were identified and dated by AMS 14C. A discrepancy between the younger needle and much older charcoal could indicate an example of the old wood effect in archaeological chronology. The study has brought comprehensive results using environmental archaeology methods and sheds light on one of the stages of historical landscape transformation of the Early Modern Ages in central Europe

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG18P02OVV060" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV060: Identification and preservation of historic field paterns</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology (IANSA)

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

89-101

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090256958