Far from Any Road: Interpreting the Transriverine Periphery of Stradonice Oppidum in the Context of La Tène Period Settlement

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Far from Any Road: Interpreting the Transriverine Periphery of Stradonice Oppidum in the Context of La Tène Period Settlement

Original language description

The Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic (AIS CR) is a tool designed to integrate digital resources on Czech archaeology. With more than 70,000 individual records of archaeological fieldwork, its content is an excellent example of big data. This poster aims to demonstrate, through a case study, how to evaluate such a dataset spatially. The focus is on the site of Nižbor, situated across from the Stradonice oppidum on the left bank of the Berounka River in the Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. A brief archaeological investigation documented a sunken hut along with the skeletal remains of an older man within its fill – an obvious example of excarnation. Both radiocarbon dating and relative dating of the pottery assemblage support a 2nd-century BC dating of the site, contemporaneous with the nearby oppidum. The central question stands: why was there a peripheral settlement situated in this marginal spot? Is it a testimony of an unknown fording place? A solitary house or part of an unknown larger settlement? The case study focuses on evaluating the spatial distribution of La Tène period settlements within a 50 km radius around Nižbor via the Cumulative Focal Mobility Network (CFMN), using the Digital Terrain Model of the Czech Republic of the 5th generation (DMR 5G) and the Model of Potential Floodplains in the Czech Republic, together with data from the Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic (AIS CR). As a result, we present a regional settlement map contextualized within natural mobility corridors, thereby enhancing our understanding of La Tène period settlement distribution and its broader implications for landscape archaeology.

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů