Application of AMCR data in the study of prehistoric settlement patterns
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Application of AMCR data in the study of prehistoric settlement patterns
Original language description
The study aims to understand the mechanisms of settlement and land use in prehistory. In the first part, the dynamics of settlement is examined with the help of a probabilistic model based on the evidence density estimation (EDE) function. Settlement structure is modelled on the basis of archaeological evidence taken from the Archaeological Map of the CR (AMCR). The resulting three-dimensional probability distribution maps represent the presence or absence of settlement at any given point in time and space. The model shows that fluctuation is a typical feature of prehistoric settlement. Stable and continuously densely-settled areas occur only in optimal places in the so called core areas of central and northwest Bohemia. In the second part of the study we examine the extent to which the changing settlement behaviour may have been influenced by environmental factors. A large amount of data from the AMCR is compared with the selected environmental variables. The results show that only some changes in settlement structure can be explained by environmental forces. For example, the contraction of settlement into the driest and most fertile parts of the country in the time of marked climate change can be observed in the middle of the 4th millennium BC. At the end of the Early Bronze Age, the relationship between settlement and the environment weakens, perhaps as the result of stronger adaptation mechanisms and changing settlement preferences (the growing importance of access to raw materials, for example) in later prehistoric periods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/DF12P01OVV003" target="_blank" >DF12P01OVV003: The Archaeological Map of the CR. A system for acquisition, management and presentation</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Structuring archaeological evidence. The Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic and related information systems
ISBN
978-80-87365-88-5
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
141-161
Number of pages of the book
255
Publisher name
Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, v. v. i.
Place of publication
Prague
UT code for WoS chapter
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