Multi-proxy analysis of an Early Neolithic wooden well in a pastoral landscape in eastern Bohemia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/pz-2024-2040/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/pz-2024-2040/html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pz-2024-2040" target="_blank" >10.1515/pz-2024-2040</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multi-proxy analysis of an Early Neolithic wooden well in a pastoral landscape in eastern Bohemia

Original language description

Some of the most remarkable Neolithic finds encountered in central Europe are wells with a wooden construction. These features provide unusual insights into Neolithic societies, their subsistence strategies and the landscape they inhabited. In the last fifteen years, four Early Neolithic wells out of a total of seven such wells known since the 1970s have been discovered in Czechia. One of them is the well at Ostrov, the wooden construction and sedimentary infill of which have made it possible to study diverse topics by taking a multi-proxy approach using a range of complementary methods. The study presented here compares different periods of the well&apos;s existence, examines the carpentry skills of the first farmers, investigates sedimentary processes, reveals details about the use and decline of the well, addresses its location relative to that of the settlement, and reconstructs the environment of the well itself and the surrounding landscape. The water well at Ostrov is a highly unusual find because it probably existed outside of a settlement. The grooved wooden lining used is identical to that of previously investigated wells inside settlements, as are the processes of its use and decline. However, environment-related indicates that the Ostrov well was located in an open landscape with sparse vegetation and was perhaps only used by-passing herdsmen.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Praehistorische Zeitschrift

ISSN

0079-4848

e-ISSN

1613-0804

Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October 28, 2024

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

44

Pages from-to

1-44

UT code for WoS article

001424741800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208543504