Detection of occupational surface remnants at a heavily eroded site, case study of archaeological soils from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F22%3A00549411" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/22:00549411 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129065 RIV/62156489:43410/22:43920772 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10453506 RIV/00216208:11210/22:10453506 RIV/60460709:41330/22:92116
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816221007694" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816221007694</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105911" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2021.105911</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Detection of occupational surface remnants at a heavily eroded site, case study of archaeological soils from La Terrasse, Bibracte oppidum
Original language description
The area of La Terrasse is located at one of the higher parts of the Celtic oppidum Bibracte. No traces of building activities, except for the fortification system which surrounds the plateau from three sides, were archaeologically detected and the area can be therefore labeled as “empty space” with an enigmatic history. Multiproxy investigations of sediments in trenches cutting across various parts of the enclosed area and excavated during the 2019 season revealed a complicated history of the formation, being influenced by erosion and by anthropogenic stabilization. Although the recent relief of the La Terrasse area appears quite stable, there is evidence that the site (and Bibracte oppidum in general) were subject to intense erosion in the past and that the former surface with the archaeological soil dated to the Late Iron Age is preserved only as a relict expressed geochemically by the increase of CEC. The reason for the recent surface stability is the presence of the Iron Age ramparts, which enclose the area and protect it against erosion. An OSL sample collected from the surface of the buried archaeological soil dates the overburden not later than to the early Medieval period (AD 561). The archaeological soil represented by the overburden did not reveal any significant geochemical signal indicative of intensive use despite its location in the most suitable and stable area of the site. It is clear that the detection of former surfaces in eroded and exposed archaeological sites and the properties of the archaeological soils is always a complex matter and can only be addressed through a combination of field observations, geochemical and micromorphological proxies.
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
40104 - Soil science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-02606S" target="_blank" >GA19-02606S: Oppidum as an urban landscape: multidisciplinary approach to the study of space organisation "intra muros"</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Catena
ISSN
0341-8162
e-ISSN
1872-6887
Volume of the periodical
210
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
105911
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120750567