Challenges and Limits of an Archaeological Dataset - Case Study of the Middle Danube Germanic Society during the Roman Period

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Challenges and Limits of an Archaeological Dataset - Case Study of the Middle Danube Germanic Society during the Roman Period

Original language description

The presently ongoing project the „Protohistoric Communities of the ‘Marcomannic’ Settlement Zone in the Middle Danube Region – Structure and Dynamics on the Basis of Digital Modelling“ (Czech Research Foundation) aims - amongst other objectives - the quantitatively oriented view on the wide array of social, demographic and economic aspects of the chiefdom type Germanic societies of the Middle Danube. During the primary phase, a heuristics of the available published sources of archaeological information has been conducted. They are inherently and distinctively variable in qualitative characteristics containing all sorts of information sources ranging from scant preliminary reports to thoroughly excavated and published archaeological components. This results in significantly varied representation within individual regions of the settlement zone, where the state of research and archaeological knowledge has been conditioned by different aspects and drivers. Therefore, the state of input data poses a challenge to put them into appropriate perspective regarding their representativeness. The paper deals with testing various ways of assigning a representativeness value, which would affect both generally and locally oriented proxies. Evaluation of their interpretation possibilities has been approached through a quantitatively oriented assessment based on dataset hierarchical structuring (site/location – component/type of activity – action/way of procurement – context/feature – artefact/ecofact) and quality and credibility of the respective sources. The temporal effect based on their revaluation will also be considered through the available aoristic weighting of potential chronological distribution.

Czech name

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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

<a href="/en/project/GA20-11070S" target="_blank" >GA20-11070S: Protohistoric Communities of the „Marcomannic“ Settlement Zone in the Middle Danube Region – Structure and Dynamics on the Basis of Digital Modelling</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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