Mapping urban assemblages: Simulating material culture and social dynamics in a flea market context

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/258" target="_blank" >https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/258</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2025.258" target="_blank" >10.35686/AR.2025.258</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mapping urban assemblages: Simulating material culture and social dynamics in a flea market context

Original language description

Although urban archaeological research yields a wealth of information, interpreting material culture in a complex context complicates the estimation of the artefact-space-human relationship. Drawing on the archaeological research on active (still operating) sites, this study presents a simulation of those dynamics using as an example a vibrant flea market, which is considered a space with a condensed assemblage of relationships between people and objects in a confined area. This approach allows for a better understanding of the dynamics of archaeological sites and social relations. We assume that multiple human activities, like trade, have their material reflection in waste and can be archaeologically investigated. We surveyed a flea market (Cieplice, SW Poland), mapping finds of discarded or lost items and assigning them to different functional categories. The results show a partial correlation between the stalls and finds, varying on the object kind. However, the finds, given that as contemporary humans we understand the ‘total’ context, allow unobvious interpretations, opening a new perspective also for medieval and post-medieval urban archaeology.

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

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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

Archeologické rozhledy

ISSN

0323-1267

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

164-180

UT code for WoS article

001542013000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105011661851