The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found
RIV/68081758:_____/21:00551291 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121830
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000996" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000996</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105429" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jas.2021.105429</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic
Original language description
In the 19th and early to mid-20th centuries, a rush to better understand the European Palaeolithic led to the substantive removal of deposits from limestone caves. In the 21st century the situation has changed. Many caves are now excavated, leaving behind a human-made environment of diminished cave sediments and large spoil heaps, with the latter now targeted by those searching for artefacts missed during the original excavations. In an age in which archaeologists are increasingly attempting to balance their roles as cultural heritage educators and destroyers, the question remains - how much do we know about the taphonomy of these features? In this paper we report results from the excavation of a large spoil heap outside Švédův Stůl Cave, in the Moravian Karst regionnof Czech Republic. Results show heterogeneous sediment formation (revealed primarily through their field characteristics and ED-XRF and Itrax geochemical analyses) and patterns in artefact distributions (evident through assessment of Iron Age, Neolithic and modern artefacts) and faunal remains. This allows partial context to be provided for some artefacts and a methodology to be developed for excavation of overburden.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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