The floor: a voice of human lifeways-a geo-ethnographical study of historical and recent floors at Dolní Němčí Mill, Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F20%3A43917916" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/20:43917916 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985912:_____/20:00532703 RIV/67985831:_____/20:00532703
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01060-y" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01060-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01060-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-020-01060-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The floor: a voice of human lifeways-a geo-ethnographical study of historical and recent floors at Dolní Němčí Mill, Czech Republic
Original language description
Is there a story that floor layers tell us about human history? A set of former floors were investigated using a combination of micromorphology, ethnography and macroremain analyses at a former mill in Dolní Němčí in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. The floor layers had been accumulating since the end of the eighteenth century. A recently made earth floor, maintained for nearly 20 years, four times per year, in accordance with local knowledge passed down from mothers to daughters, formed the topmost layer. The main aim of the paper is: (1) to examine and contrast morphological characteristics of floors against known practices, which will be a useful reference for archaeological examples; (2) to compare the observations/findings to established knowledge of processes of floor formation. The structure of former floor layers preserved below the recent floor provided an indication of how floor care practices changed over the centuries, how these differed in different parts of the house and possible accumulation rate of the floor layer. This research illustrates that the micromorphological study of recent floors combined with ethnographic knowledge and macroremain analyses is a valuable methodological approach for the interpretation of archaeological case studies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-23836S" target="_blank" >GA17-23836S: Transformation of the Burgher House in the 13th Century (Brno-Prague-Wroclaw)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
ISSN
1866-9557
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
115
UT code for WoS article
000536894900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085219517