Anthropogenic soils and sediments from historical trade hub on the bank of Morava River in Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic): Archives of mediaeval landscape, environment and settlement dynamics

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F25%3A00636350" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/25:00636350 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68081758:_____/25:00636350 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00140977 RIV/00216275:25310/25:39923196

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816225000360?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816225000360?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108734" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2025.108734</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Anthropogenic soils and sediments from historical trade hub on the bank of Morava River in Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic): Archives of mediaeval landscape, environment and settlement dynamics

Original language description

This paper underscores the importance of investigating soils and sediments in proto-urban to urban archaeological contexts to gain a comprehensive understanding of their genesis and evolution, and their informative role in deciphering historical human–environment interactions and spatial organisation patterns. We focus on Early to High Mediaeval (6th–14th century CE) anthropogenically modified soils and sediments from Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic). A study of well-preserved Dark Earths (DEs) uncovered in the Morava River floodplain allowed us to define interactions between people and their environment and to understand landscape evolution of the island area in relation to floodplain dynamics. A multi-proxy approach based on a combination of archaeological evidence, soil micromorphology, and physical, geochemical and palaeobotanical analyses, supplemented with dating methods was used to unravel the processes contributing to DE formation, human activities and the use of space. Initial settlement activities began in Uherské Hradiště at the end of the 7th or beginning of the 8th century CE, with later DEs indicating intensified human impact through craft activities, probably linked to market exchange from the 8th century, and even a possible marketplace underscoring its strategic importance within the broader economic and social networks, partially before and mainly during the Great Moravian period, in the 9th century CE. After a hiatus in the 10th–12th centuries AD, the site saw re-establishment in the 13th century CE, marking the early formation of the urbanisation in Uherské Hradiště. Despite repeated flooding, the settlement in the area was renewed repeatedly. Together with evidence of long-distance trade, this proves the importance of the place located on the commercial waterway of the Morava River. New findings reveal that this settlement could have played a more essential role in the Early Mediaeval era than previously expected.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004593" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004593: Ready for the future: understanding long-term resilience of the human culture (RES-HUM)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Catena

ISSN

0341-8162

e-ISSN

1872-6887

Volume of the periodical

250

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

108734

UT code for WoS article

001423893400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85216241100