Floor Maintenance as a Possible Cultural Behavioural Status? Preliminary Interpretations of Floor Formation Processes from Medieval Brno, Czech Republic

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F20%3A00532697" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/20:00532697 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/26268469:_____/20:N0000013

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-lisa.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2020-01-lisa.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2020.1.5" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2020.1.5</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Floor Maintenance as a Possible Cultural Behavioural Status? Preliminary Interpretations of Floor Formation Processes from Medieval Brno, Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The way people used different types of buildings and how they used their living space in the past is often imprinted into the floors of buildings. The term floor is quite complex and to understand it, more than macroscopic observations are needed. One useful method is the application of soil micromorphology in an archaeological context. The timber and earth architecture of medieval Brno is still not well known. A rescue archaeological excavation of block 601 near Veselá Street revealed a unique situation where above-ground floors dated to the 13th–14th century had survived while buried under a garbage dump and discarded construction material. Two groups of buildings excavated in superposition within different parts of a single plot revealed that it is possible to track different maintenance practices through time and space. In the first building, the hypothesis of sweeping maintenance practice was proposed. In the younger building situated in the same area, the degradation or the removal of a wooden plank floor could have been the origin of the observed micro-structure. In the third and fourth buildings, the maintenance practices were different again due to a wetter environment. The third (older) building revealed hay and straw covering followed by sweeping while mat coverings were laid on the surfaces and swept in the fourth (younger) building. The information deduced from micromorphological observations has not fully solved the questions about the floors, but it has certainly elucidated possible interpretations of the oldest phases of the town’s development.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Floor Maintenance as a Possible Cultural Behavioural Status? Preliminary Interpretations of Floor Formation Processes from Medieval Brno, Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

The way people used different types of buildings and how they used their living space in the past is often imprinted into the floors of buildings. The term floor is quite complex and to understand it, more than macroscopic observations are needed. One useful method is the application of soil micromorphology in an archaeological context. The timber and earth architecture of medieval Brno is still not well known. A rescue archaeological excavation of block 601 near Veselá Street revealed a unique situation where above-ground floors dated to the 13th–14th century had survived while buried under a garbage dump and discarded construction material. Two groups of buildings excavated in superposition within different parts of a single plot revealed that it is possible to track different maintenance practices through time and space. In the first building, the hypothesis of sweeping maintenance practice was proposed. In the younger building situated in the same area, the degradation or the removal of a wooden plank floor could have been the origin of the observed micro-structure. In the third and fourth buildings, the maintenance practices were different again due to a wetter environment. The third (older) building revealed hay and straw covering followed by sweeping while mat coverings were laid on the surfaces and swept in the fourth (younger) building. The information deduced from micromorphological observations has not fully solved the questions about the floors, but it has certainly elucidated possible interpretations of the oldest phases of the town’s development.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-23836S" target="_blank" >GA17-23836S: Proměna městského domu ve 13. století (Brno-Praha-Wroclaw)</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in Archaeology

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

XI

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

63-72

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85090254040