Floor Maintenance as a Possible Cultural Behavioural Status? Preliminary Interpretations of Floor Formation Processes from Medieval Brno, Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F20%3A00532697" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/20:00532697 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/26268469:_____/20:N0000013
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-lisa.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-lisa.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2020.1.5" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2020.1.5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Floor Maintenance as a Possible Cultural Behavioural Status? Preliminary Interpretations of Floor Formation Processes from Medieval Brno, Czech Republic
Original language description
The way people used different types of buildings and how they used their living space in the past is often imprinted into the floors of buildings. The term floor is quite complex and to understand it, more than macroscopic observations are needed. One useful method is the application of soil micromorphology in an archaeological context. The timber and earth architecture of medieval Brno is still not well known. A rescue archaeological excavation of block 601 near Veselá Street revealed a unique situation where above-ground floors dated to the 13th–14th century had survived while buried under a garbage dump and discarded construction material. Two groups of buildings excavated in superposition within different parts of a single plot revealed that it is possible to track different maintenance practices through time and space. In the first building, the hypothesis of sweeping maintenance practice was proposed. In the younger building situated in the same area, the degradation or the removal of a wooden plank floor could have been the origin of the observed micro-structure. In the third and fourth buildings, the maintenance practices were different again due to a wetter environment. The third (older) building revealed hay and straw covering followed by sweeping while mat coverings were laid on the surfaces and swept in the fourth (younger) building. The information deduced from micromorphological observations has not fully solved the questions about the floors, but it has certainly elucidated possible interpretations of the oldest phases of the town’s development.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
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
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in Archaeology
ISSN
1804-848X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
XI
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
63-72
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090254040